Pre-recorded Web sessions

See a sneak preview of the soon-to-be-released print edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification, Abridge 15. During this 30-minute presentation, you'll learn about the new features in this edition, including:

• Many new topics and significant updates to selected fields
• A complete overhaul to the representation of groups and people
• Elimination of dual headings and unbalanced spans
• Cessation of partial abridgement of parallel notation

A WMS webinar specifically for academic libraries. Hear from Robin R. Hartman, Director of Library Services at the Hugh and Hazel Darling Library of Hope International University in Fullerton, California and Dr. Lynn Futch, Dean for Library Services at Ogeechee Technical College Library, Georgia. They¹ll relate their experiences implementing WMS and the efficiencies it has brought to their library¹s workflows with OCLC¹s Web-scale Management Services.

This webinar provides an overview of the following August 2011 enhancements to OCLC resource sharing services:

• New Lender String report. This report provides details about your library's interactions with specific lenders up to one year in the past.
• Custom Holdings symbol searcher. A new way to quickly identify which Custom Holdings groups contain a specific symbol (up to 10 symbols), so you can modify your custom holdings groups as needed when changes occur.
• New ILL work form fields to support article sharing. These fields provide the PubMed number (PMID) and the Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
• Email from anywhere. Allows your staff to send an email to another library from anywhere in an interlibrary loan workform.
• Improvements to Not Received feature. Now libraries can alert the lender that an item as not been received at any time after the lender updates the request to SHIPPED.

The webinar also includes an update on short-term access to MyiLibrary e-books through WorldCat Resource Sharing, due for release in September 2011. [WebEx recording, 1 hour]

This Virtual Resource Sharing User Group meeting was a repeat of the in-person user group meeting at the ALA Annual conference. It included overviews of recent and upcoming enhancements to OCLC resource sharing services.

The session also provided a status report on our progress with the future delivery service planned for release in 2012.

This webinar provides an overview of recent and upcoming enhancements to the WorldCat Resource Sharing service.

[WebEx recording, 1 hour]

This presentation provides an overview of OCLC's plans for a future service that will give WorldCat Resource Sharing users a new interface that simplifies library and end-user requesting workflows through time-saving resource sharing tools.

[WebEx recording 1 hour 1 minute]

During the past year, members of the resource sharing community have shared tips and tricks on a number of topics in a series of webinars. On April 19, all previous presenters participated in a resource sharing "town hall" meeting to continue the conversations.

The panel of resource sharing experts who responded to questions from the community included:

• Jennifer Block, Princeton University;
• Collette Mak, University of Notre Dame;
• Mary Radnor, Florida International University;
• Merle J. Slyhoff, University of Pennsylvania Biddle Law Library;
• Tony Melvyn, OCLC.

Jennifer Block, Interlibrary Services/Document Delivery Librarian at Princeton University shares her tips for successful use of the deflection feature of WorldCat Resource Sharing. Her presentation includes an overview of how deflection is used at Princeton and how Princeton's interlibrary loan staff has adapted their use of the feature to fit the needs of their library.

[WebEx recording 1 hour 1 minute]

Ben Hunter shares his experiences with the implementation and introduction of WorldCat Local at the University of Idaho. The webinar includes information about ready-made promotional resources available from OCLC.

[WebEx recording 57 minutes]

Collette Mak Head, Resource Access and Delivery at the University of Notre Dame, shares advice about what you can do with your ILL statistics to take the numbers from something only an Interlibrary Loan person can love to something that is useful for a library director. 
[WebEx recording 57 minutes]

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Mary Radnor, Resource Sharing Librarian at Florida International University shares tips for successful use of the custom holdings feature of WorldCat Resource Sharing.  

Custom holdings allow you to organize and customize holdings displays to improve access to the OCLC symbols of your preferred lenders. You can set up preferred lending partners and custom holdings in the Policies Directory to help direct requests intelligently through flexible layers of library, groups, consortia and worldwide materials. The result is time savings for your staff and shorter turnaround times for your users.
[WebEx recording 42 minutes]

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An overview during which you'll learn:

• The benefits of incorporating controlling into your cataloging workflow,
• An overview of the three different types of controlling (single, multi-control, control all),
• Use of fixed field elements in controlling,
• The scope of current controlling functionality,
• A review of current 'known problems'.

Prerequisite: The session is aimed at those that are familiar with controlling functionality in the Connexion client. Attendees are encouraged to view the Controlling Headings in Bibliographic Records tutorial beforehand.

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Our speakers are:

• Virginia Cole, Reference and Digital Services Librarian, Cornell University Library
• Kim LaPlante, Library Manager, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
• Toby Thomas, Virtual Services Librarian, Seattle Public Library

• Beth Cackowski (project coordinator of New Jersey's statewide service QandANJ.org) spoke about the QandANJ.org ad on MTV; and
• Diana Sachs-Silveira (project coordniator of Florida's Ask a Librarian service) discussed "The Director's Chair", a YouTube contest in which Florida high school students produce a commercial for the Ask A Librarian service.