Relais International releases ILL version 2008

Relais International Inc announces the launch of the newest release of Relais ILL and Relais Enterprise, their ILL Management and Document Delivery systems. Version 2008 includes several new features and enhancements to Web Services, OpenURL interface, and support for the NCIP protocol. Also part of the release is the addition of standard reports, and support for additional scanners such as the Widetek Scanner and the Bookeye Planetary Scanner.

Relais International Inc is based in Ottawa, Canada, and has been selling systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services since 1996. Relais International assists libraries in implementing intelligent and automated methods to support the delivery of documents. Relais products range from scanning stations through to fully integrated request management, scanning and delivery software suitable for a single library through to a consortium.

For an overview of Relais International Inc, please visit http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/index.htm.

MLNC partners with Atlas Systems for Aeon to serve Special Collection libraries

MLNC is pleased to announce a partnership with Atlas Systems, Inc. (developers of ILLiad) to distribute Aeon, special collections circulation and workflow automation software. MLNC members are eligible for a 10% discount. Aeon is a circulation management system that enables special collections libraries to provide better customer service in a more secure and controlled environment. Aeon improves customer service and staff efficiency while providing unparalleled item tracking, security and statistics.

 

For an overview of Aeon, please visit http://www.atlas-sys.com/products/aeon/.

Free CONTENTdm workshops from MLNC and the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative

Introduction to CONTENTdm for MDH Users
St. Louis - May 1, 2008
Independence - May 7, 2008
Columbia - May 8. 2008

Learn how to manage your digital collections using the CONTENTdm Acquisition Station, the digital collection management tool for the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative. This hands-on workshop will cover the complete workflow from importing and describing digital objects to uploading files to the server. Course participants will have an opportunity to add images to a temporary collection, create metadata, and view and search the collection on the Web. Topics will include:

– Start a new project
– Brand a project and set user permissions
– Import items singly and in batch
– Import metadata from a tab-delimited file
– Build a compound object (e.g. linked pages in a document or book)

This workshop is limited to past, current, or future LSTA Digital Imaging Grant recipients and to other institutions that wish to contribute digital collections to the Missouri Digital Heritage database. Your institution MUST sign the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) agreement with the Missouri State Library prior to attending a workshop. For more information about the AUP, contact Carl Wingo, MDH Project Manager, at 800-325-0131 ext. 9.

A limited number of stipends are available for hotel rooms for this workshop. Contact Keri Cascio (ext. 813) at the MLNC office for more information. You must register to attend, registration information is online at http://www.mlnc.org/workshops/vmcontentdm.html.

MLNC Summer workshops open for registration!

MLNC is pleased to announce our Summer 2008 workshop schedule. In addition to the topics listed below, we are also working on the next MLNC Speakers Series event for July, more details will be announced in the coming weeks. We hope to see you at an MLNC event!Cataloging Workshops
– Copy Cataloging with CatExpress
– Serials Cataloging: The Basics
– Using the OCLC Authority File
– Using the OCLC Connexion Browser

Interlibrary Loan Workshops
– Introduction to WorldCat Resource Sharing

MLNC Speakers Series
– Reserve the date: July 16 in St. Louis. Details coming soon!

Special Workshops
– Licensing Agreements: What You Need to Know
– Make the Most of Your OCLC Statistics
– OCLC Local Holdings Maintenance
– OCLC Public Services Update
– OCLC Technical Services Update
– Using WorldCat Collection Analysis in Public Libraries
– Using WorldCat Collection Analysis in Academic Libraries

Complete workshop descriptions and online registration are available on our Web site at http://www.mlnc.org/workshops/. If your institution has a specific training need that is not on our current schedule, please contact Deb Ehrstein (deb@mlnc.org, ext. 816) at the MLNC office (800-969-6562).

Credo Reference webinar

Please join us online for a demo of MLNC’s newest reference database, Credo Reference.

Credo Reference is a vast, online reference library, providing access to the full text of hundreds of highly regarded titles. Credo’s library of over three million entries is informative, engaging and entertaining — concept maps for visual learners, dynamic tables to make statistics meaningful, interactive maps and timelines for historical context. Credo brings facts alive with images, sound files, animations, pronunciations and videos.

Single session demonstrations are available either April 24th or May 15th at 2:00pm. To sign up visit http://www.mlnc.org/workshops/.

Free trial-Alexander Street Press

Alexander Street Press is now offering MLNC members a free trial to several of their award winning databases. MLNC members receive 10% off list price of these great sources, so take this opportunity to take a look. For more information visit www.mlnc.org/electronic/asp, for pricing and ordering email asia@mlnc.org Free trial expires 5/31.For logon and passwords email asia@mlnc.org 

Classical Music Library - Classical Music Library is an ever-growing, fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to on the Internet.  http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com

American Theatre in Video:  Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama. http://ativ.alexanderstreet.com

World Literature:  Word Literature Online brings together all of our culturally diverse literature databases under one platform. The works celebrate the creative achievements of authors from around the globe, including the broad literary output of Africa and its Diaspora, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Europe, and other regions—along with the North American expressions of this rich world heritage.http://wlit.alexanderstreet.com

American Civil War Research Database:  The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War, with indexed, searchable information on 4.3 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 16,000 photographs. http://cwdb.alexanderstreet.com

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works - is a landmark database containing more than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions—almost 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, together with 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of the sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous. http://psyc.alexanderstreet.com

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online-With Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide an electronic archive of unprecedented scope. In addition to offering keyword searching across thousands of collections freely available on the Web, the Letters and Diaries Online platform allows users to perform in-depth fielded searches across all of the letter, diary, and oral history collections published commercially by Alexander Street Press.http://lado.alexanderstreet.com

April QuickFlash is now available

The April issue of QuickFlash, a newsletter with general and OCLC news for MLNC members, is available.In this issue:

• The election for positions on the MLNC Board of Directors concluded in March. Karen Hicklin, Library Director at Trails Regional Library in Warrensburg, will join the Board in July 2008. Waller McGuire, Executive Director, St. Louis Public Library, and Jim Cogswell, Director of Libraries, University of Missouri, were each re-elected. For a complete list of Board members see http://www.mlnc.org/board.html.
• MLNC is pleased announce a new partnership with Credo Reference (formerly Xrefer). MLNC members are now eligible for a 15% discount off this exciting new product. Credo Reference will also offer an introductory spring promotion: two free months of service for new subscribers! For more information, pricing, and trials, visit http://www.mlnc.org/electronic/credo/ or contact Asia Gross at the MLNC office. We’ve also just added some online demonstrations to our workshop schedule.
• From now until June 30, 2008, any library wishing to subscribe to CQ Press’ Researcher or Global Researcher products will receive a 15% discount off list price, an additional 5% savings for MLNC members. Those libraries wishing to renew their CQ Researcher or Global Researcher subscription this spring will also receive this discount. For more details visit http://www.mlnc.org/workshops/credo.html or contact Asia Gross at the MLNC office.
• OCLC has created new WorldCat Collection Analysis best practices scenarios. “Annual Collection Review” shows how to use WorldCat Collection Analysis to make and support informed decisions on which titles to retain, weed, and acquire as a result of an annual collection review. The “Introduction to Using Excel” is designed to help those who are unfamiliar with Excel gain familiarity with working with spreadsheets.

Also in this issue: NetLibrary subject set discounts; new Local Holdings and QuestionPoint documentation; RDA and FRBR information; Google APIs; and more!