WorldCat® widget in the EBSCO Discovery Service

	Help your users find what they need in your discovery interface Expand WorldCat access to your users within EDS

The WorldCat® widget in the EBSCO Discovery Service™ helps your end users increase their chances of finding the exact items they’re looking for. This tool will enable the display of other WorldCat libraries that hold the item–all within your existing EBSCO Discovery Service interface. Now, you can expand the EBSCO Discovery Service to include WorldCat access without requiring end users to leave your library’s website.  

Using the WorldCat Search API you can quickly make this new tool available in your library.

	1. Know your WorldCat Search API key. It is: Dillard University TSArDNesGMvgSooHSbmS7tSbJTS3V0QqGm53yDqnaUEuhRjlGQppbmXl3XQ9Q1xYH61jGFvU3vDs7Hh0 2. Determine the following for each widget you want to create: ·         Will you be setting up an Affiliated Libraries widget or a Nearby Libraries widget?         ~ To set up an Affiliated Library widget you will need a list of affiliated library OCLC symbols ·         The link text that will display in results for a WorldCat item ·         Determine if you will indicate an ILL provider. 3. Follow the instructions for creating the widget within EBSCOadmin.

 

If you need additional help completing the set-up, please contact EBSCO Support or call 800-758-5995.  If you need help with the WorldCat Search API key, please contact OCLC Orders.

The WorldCat Search API is available to your library at no additional charge and its use is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

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OCLC WorldShare: Let's keep learning!

 

OCLC's community initiatives are focused on supporting librarians as they learn and work to improve their users' experiences. In April, OCLC is offering a variety of complimentary Web sessions to help you learn about OCLC WorldShare® Management Services. Join us this week for the following webinars on WorldShare® Management Services.     Putting the pieces together with WorldShare Management Services Today 2:00 pm, Eastern (11:00 am, Pacific) If your library currently uses OCLC services and plans to migrate to a cloud-based library management service in the future, we encourage you to attend this session. You’ll learn how these services will fit together–as part of OCLC’s WorldShare strategy–to provide new and expanded functionality for OCLC member libraries. Register now »           OCLC WorldShare License Manager Demonstration Wednesday, April 17 2:00 pm, Eastern (11:00 am, Pacific) Find out how OCLC WorldShare® License Manager can be used to manage divergent e-content workflows so that your library saves time and money and simplifies the collection development process. Register now »       Below are more opportunities to learn about WorldShare Management Services.     Electronic Resources at Webscale Tuesday, April 23 3:00 pm, Eastern (12:00 pm, Pacific) Learn how to cooperatively manage your library's entire lifecycle electronically: acquisition and management, discovery and access, and resource sharing and collection evaluation analytics. Positively impact your library's future by simplifying your lending, increasing usage, unifying workflows and reducing or eliminating replication of data. Register now »           OCLC WorldShare Management Services Demonstration: Circulation and Discovery Wednesday, April 24 2:00 pm, Eastern (11:00 am, Pacific) Find out how OCLC WorldShare Management Services provide a new cooperative approach to managing library services, such as integrated acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, patron administration, resource sharing and e-resource management. Register now »       See a complete list of upcoming OCLC online events. The more we share, the better life gets.
	About OCLC WorldShare Management Services The OCLC WorldShare® Platform facilitates collaboration and app-sharing across the library community, so that libraries can combine library-built applications, partner-built applications and OCLC-built applications. This enables the benefits of each single solution to be shared broadly throughout the library community. The first services built on this new technical infrastructure are Webscale Management Services, which have been rebranded as OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and include circulation, acquisitions and license management applications.
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ALA News: Maureen Sullivan: President Obama’s budget gives libraries funding boost

ALA News
April 12, 2013

Maureen Sullivan: President Obama’s budget gives libraries funding boost

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/maureen-sullivan-president-obama-s-budget-gives-libraries-funding-boost

Today, President Barack Obama released the budget for the 2014 fiscal year, allocating $177 million for assistance to libraries through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Library funding will be administered by the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services (IMLS). The budget request is approximately a 1.16 percent increase over funding enacted for the bill in the 2013 fiscal year continuing resolution (after sequestration).

In response to President Obama’s 2014 budget request, American Library Association (ALA) President Maureen Sullivan released the following statement today:

“We congratulate President Obama for supporting our nation’s libraries and the work they do for their communities. The White House Office of Management and Budget has increased the amount of funding for libraries and recognizes the ways that libraries contribute to the economic recovery in their local communities.

"By funding the Library Services and Technology Act, the Obama Administration has acknowledged the key role libraries play in the nation’s economic recovery. This funding provides libraries with the means to serve their patrons, many of whom are job seekers who come to libraries to find work or learn the research and digital literacy skills needed for 21st century jobs.

"While we are very pleased by the $2 million increase in funding for the Library Services and Technology Act, we know that libraries need more federal funding support to continue to be the thriving resource centers and technology hubs that millions rely on for assistance. Funding included in the budget is well below the amount of federal assistance that libraries received during the 2012 fiscal year. We hope the Obama Administration will provide libraries with even more support in the future.”

About the American Library Association
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with approximately 58,000 members in academic, public, school, government, and special libraries. The mission of the American Library Association is to provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.

Dillard University Library to Participate in the Worldwide Event Celebrating National Library Week: Letter From Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 http://www.bplonline.org/programs/1963/Letter.aspx

The Letter From Birmingham Jail

http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/kingweb/popular_requests/frequentdocs/birmingham.pdf 

On April 16th, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. began writing his Letter from Birmingham Jail, participants worldwide will read King's Letter in celebration. Participants will host public readings from the Letter at various locations around the globe: libraries, museums, schools, universities, churches, synagogues, temples, work places, public parks, bookstores, street corners, coffee shops and anywhere people want to participate.

The Dillard University Library, a registered participant of the event, will showcase a reading of the letter, along with a display of pictures from the historic event, at 7pm.

 

The Dillard University community is invited.

Take the LRG ResearchLine Benchmark Study Survey and Earn an Opportunity to Win an Apple iPad

April 16, 2013

LRG ResearchLine: Insight and Analysis on Purchasing and Technology Trends in the Dynamic North American Library Marketplace

Take the LRG ResearchLine Benchmark Study Survey and Earn an Opportunity to Win an Apple iPad Take the Survey SPONSORED BY The Library Resource Guide (LRG), the industry's leading resource, is launching its third annual study of library spending and budgeting. Respondents to the study (TAKE THE SURVEY) will be eligible to download the final report (an estimated 45 pages) at no charge when the results are published and will be entered into a Sweepstakes drawing for one (1) Apple iPad. The "LRG ResearchLine Benchmark Study on 2013 Library Spending Plans" will look at technology investments, budgets and budget trends, and funding sources for the complete range of libraries in North America. The study will be conducted for LRG by the Unisphere Research Group. Unisphere conducted the 2011 and 2012 Library Spending reports and the 2013 report will include comparative reporting between the new survey data and previous findings. The final report will be a substantial document intended to provide you with unprecedented comparative data for similar libraries and a market overview intended to assist you in the budgeting and budget justification process for your library(ies) — and every respondent to the survey will receive access to the final report on a complimentary basis. Individual respondents will not be identified by name or institution. Submitting an email address at the conclusion of the survey is required only for the purpose of delivering the link to the final report to you and for use in drawing/notification of the Sweepstakes winner. Please respond by April 26. Sweepstakes Rules

 

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