Recent Web sessions and recorded presentations

Looking for ways to better manage your interlibrary loan partnerships, analyze your resource sharing workflow, or share meaningful data with your collection development staff or funding bodies? Join OCLC and guest speaker Lynn Bierma, Illinois State Library and learn how to get the most from WorldCat Resource Sharing Assessment Tools, including:

• ILL Reciprocity Report - evaluate your reciprocal relationships
• Lender String Report - identify your best lenders
• eSerials Requests by Journal Title - track most-often-requested journals
• Global Information System (GIS) report - manage your ILL operations

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]

Hear how the new, cooperative WorldCat knowledge base features and data help centralize the management, discovery and delivery of your electronic resources when you use OCLC services like WorldCat Local and WorldCat Resource Sharing. Use of the WorldCat knowledge base adds value to OCLC members’ existing subscriptions to OCLC Cataloging, WorldCat Local, WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad.

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]

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]

Direct Request for books through WorldCat Resource Sharing services and ILLiad has saved libraries millions of hours of time and, when combined with IFM – tens of millions of dollars. OCLC is now extending the Direct Request feature to apply that kind of cooperation and efficiency to the sharing of electronic articles.

This presentation provides an update on the OCLC pilot program with IDS Project and Atlas Systems that provides unmediated access to both electronic and hard copy articles via data from WorldCat knowledge base and electronic rights management tools, with no additional charge to existing resource sharing subscriptions.

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