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Hear how Drake University’s 125-year history is preserved
During a recent Web presentation, Bart Schmidt, Digital Projects Librarian at Drake University’s Cowles Library shared his experiences in digitizing and preserving Drake University’s 125-year history.
More than 30,000 photographs, articles and oral histories from eyewitnesses, held in the Cowles Library Special Collections, were digitized to create the Drake Heritage Collections. Built using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software, they consist of 12 digital collections and include a range of materials from the Drake University's Yearbooks and Pulitzer Prize winner Jay Norwood 'Ding' Darling’s editorial cartoons to the music of Drake University’s bands.
As part of his presentation, Bart explained how he integrates Google Maps with CONTENTdm and the Historic Des Moines digital collection featuring 200 photographs of homes, parks and public places taken between 1904 and 1914. As a result, library users get a new perspective on the special collections and its unique value to the community. Bart also offered a quick online tutorial of how to create a Google Map and integrate it into an online digital collection.
Additionally, Bart talked about some of the creative ways he markets the Digital Heritage Collections to the Drake University campus, the Des Moines community, Iowa residents and worldwide.
The Webinar recording
The Webinar recording is now available for online viewing and includes a 10-minute introduction to CONTENTdm by Ron Gardner, OCLC Digital Library Consultant.
Drake Heritage Collections presentation [WebEx recording - 56 minutes]
Bart Schmidt, Digital Projects Librarian
Drake University
View the Drake Heritage Collections
Last updated: 2009 10 27
Collection management
CONTENTdm Featured Collections: October 2009
Organizations worldwide are using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to create thousands of outstanding digital collections and to provide easy access to their unique holdings.
This month, four collections from the CONTENTdm Collection of Collections are featured on the OCLC Web site. The featured collections for October are Milwaukee Waterways; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Digital Library; Cuban Photograph Collections and Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918.
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Milwaukee Waterways
Milwaukee Public Library
Milwaukee Waterways illustrates the role Lake Michigan and Milwaukee's rivers have played in the history of Milwaukee. Pictures of the harbor and ships from around the world loading and unloading materials show the variety of materials that have passed through the Port over time. Other pictures illustrate the role the rivers played in the commercial development of the city. Aerial views of the harbor and rivers and lakefront show the changing uses of the water and land. The photographs are from three collections contributed by the Port of Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Library, and the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society.
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FWS National Digital Library
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected still images, publications, historical artifacts, audio, and video clips that are in the public domain. Topics covered include fisheries, plants, wildlife management, endangered species, wildlife refuges, habitat restoration, migratory birds, environmental sciences, recreation, training and outreach, hunting, water conservation, and more.
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Cuban Photograph Collections
University of Miami
The Cuban Photograph Collections include over 5,000 photographs which span a wide range of historical topics related to Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora. Highlights include historical images from the War of Independence against Spain (1895-1898), and photochroms important to the history of photography taken in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War by renowned American photographer William Jackson.
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Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918
University of Washington Libraries
This collection contains over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918. These advertisements were selected and digitized in order to help researchers and students examine social, cultural and economic trends during this period. The collection is categorized into thematic groups and features advertisements about health care and hygiene products, liquor, tobacco, machinery, manufacturing, transportation, fashion, food and household goods and local tourism.
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Last updated: 2009 10 07
Reference
WorldCat.org enhancements in October 2009
This month’s enhancements include a new apply for a library card link, recent items breakouts, new Elsevier content, Goodreads reviews and the new WorldCat Page on Facebook.
Library info pages now show library card sign up link and recent lists breakouts
Two new features were added to WorldCat.org this month that enhance the usefulness of your library info page on the site: the "Apply for a library card" link and new breakout categories on lists of recently-added items.
The "Apply for a library card" link (circled) is drawn from your library's WorldCat Registry profile in the "Name and Location" section, and the Recent items list breakouts (highlighted) are automatically generated for you each month, from your previous month's WorldCat holdings.
- Apply for a library card link
Once you add a link to your online library card sign-up form through the WorldCat Registry, now WorldCat.org will display it for your users. So anyone who finds your library through WorldCat can immediately become an online borrower.
- Fiction/Juvenile breakouts on recent items lists
Your library's monthly auto-generated list of items recently added to WorldCat just got even better—now there are 4 separate sublists for fiction, nonfiction, juvenile and nonjuvenile materials. You can point to this page from blog posts, newsletters—anywhere you want to highlight new content for specific readers. (Note that the "All items" list has an RSS feed on it. Soon the breakout categories will have individual RSS feeds, too.)
See both of these enhancements in action from the Huntington Beach Public Library's "info" page on WorldCat.org
More WorldCat news
 Elsevier ScienceDirect articles now on WorldCat.org
Elsevier metadata for SCOPUS and ScienceDirect collections from 2006 to the present have now been indexed in WorldCat.org search results. This article-level metadata joins similar content such as the GPO Monthly Catalog, ArticleFirst, Medline, ERIC and the British Library Inside Serials. The ScienceDirect content corresponds to 1,800 journals, 150 book series and more than 1.3 million records.
Goodreads reviews are in
WorldCat has now added Goodreads reviews to help users evaluate materials with fellow readers' comments. You'll find Goodreads reviews in the "Reviews" section alongside WorldCat, WeRead, and Amazon reviews.
 On Facebook? Become a Fan of WorldCat on the new WorldCat Page. Then upload a photo, start a discussion, or post a question to the wall.
Last updated: 2009 10 22
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WorldCat.org enhancements in September 2009
This month’s enhancements include a new library card field in the WorldCat Registry and the WorldCat CiteMe app being recognized by Mashable.
WorldCat Registry now includes library card field
Photo attribution: ilovelibraries.org
Library Card Sign-up September is national library card sign-up month for libraries in the United States, so there’s no better time to take advantage of the latest new field added to the WorldCat Registry—the Library Card Form page. This new field lets you add the URL for your library card sign-up form to your Registry profile. Find it in the “Name and Location” section of your profile. Once you add it, soon new users who find your library through WorldCat.org will be able to apply for a library card immediately. 
Add your library card sign-up form URL to your WorldCat Registry profile now >>
More WorldCat news
Facebook apps for back-to school 
The WorldCat CiteMe app was recently recognized in the article, “Back to School: 15 Essential Web Tools for Students” by Mashable, the world's largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. There are two Facebook apps for WorldCat:
Last updated: 2009 10 12
Reference
xISBN now includes optional WorldCat.org links
Now you can link to WorldCat.org records from your xISBN results.
The xISBN Web service supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual intellectual work represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISBN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.
The xISBN service is based on WorldCat, the world's largest network of library content and services.
With this new enhancement, you can now easily have all of your results link directly to the WorldCat.org item—which means if a user finds an item through your xISBN-powered app, they can now quickly locate it in a nearby library through WorldCat.org.
To enable automatic linking to WorldCat.org, simply add the argument "?fl=url" to the end of an xISBN request, like this:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0596002815?fl=url
Get more details and gain access to xISBN through the WorldCat Affiliates page on the WorldCat.org Web site.
Last updated: 2009 10 12
Reference
Syndetic Solutions trial in WorldCat Local
OCLC is partnering with Syndetic Solutions to offer trial access to evaluative content such as covert art, reviews and summaries in WorldCat Local. When enabled, this content will help WorldCat Local users more easily determine which items in search results will fulfill their research needs.
All WorldCat Local libraries in North America (Canada, US, Mexico) Central America, Caribbean, and South America that do not currently purchase content from Syndetic Solutions are eligible to participate in the trial that will continue through June 30, 2010.
Library staff members control access to the trial content in the >My WorldCat.org >User Interface Options section of the Service Configuration module. The new evaluative content is available now in WorldCat Local, but it will not display to users until the option to “Display Syndetics data?” is set to “Show” in Service Configuration.
Evaluative content included in the trial
The trial will surface six new evaluative content elements within the WorldCat Local interface. These elements include:
- Cover Art
- Reviews from Library Journal
- Reviews from Publisher’s Weekly
- First Chapters
- Descriptions / Summaries
- Table of Contents
For the purpose of this trial program, Syndetic Solutions has chosen to feature the six key content elements listed above. At the conclusion of the trial libraries may choose subscribe to these existing elements or add additional elements that include: fiction profiles, find similar titles, series list, first chapters, author notes, awards, Spanish and German content, video & music profiles and reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Choice, Horn and Kirkus.
Next steps
The trial of Syndetic Solutions evaluative content in WorldCat Local will continue through June 30, 2010. Following the trial, WorldCat Local libraries may choose to add a subscription to this content to their WorldCat Local subscription for an additional charge.
Contact your OCLC Library Services Consultant for an estimate of the price of this add-on purchase for your library.
Last updated: 2009 10 12
Reference
Credo Reference is adding MARC records to WorldCat
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. The records being added to WorldCat represent the ebooks that are part of Credo's collection.
The Credo Reference collection includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from over 70 of the world's best reference publishers. Credo's collection is intelligently integrated with millions of cross-references and contains a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature plus dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases.
When a record for a title from Credo Reference (OCLC symbol CREDO) is added or matched to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code CRED. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu). Some examples of the records added to WorldCat from Credo Reference are OCLC numbers: #436848185, #437303088. Some examples of records matched in WorldCat are OCLC numbers: #428818194, #246969140.
For information about Credo Reference, see their web site at: http://www.credoreference.com.
See a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program.
Last updated: 2009 10 13
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