NEBASE WORKSHOP CALENDAR

NEBASE workshops have been scheduled for Lincoln, Norfolk, Omaha, Hastings and Kearney.

For a quick glance at what workshops are scheduled and where, see the NEBASE Training Calendar at </netserv/TrainingCal.html>.

The location and date, as well as a description of each of the workshops below, can be found at </netserv/nebase/oclcworkshopsdesc.html>. To register for any of the workshops, please complete the online registration form at </netserv/nebase/oclcworkshops.html#reg>. The workshop fee for NEBASE libraries is $10. If you are not a NEBASE library*, please check the registration form for your workshop fee. If you have any questions, please contact Jeannette Powell at 402-471-7740 or 800-307-2665 or e-mail Jeannette Powell for registration fee.

*NEBASE libraries are Nebraska libraries who use OCLC cataloging or interlibrary loan services or who subscribe to FirstSearch. Although libraries who subscribe only to FirstSearch are eligible to pay the $10 workshop fee, they must pay by check.

• OCLC Cataloging Micro Enhancer: An Alternative to Passport
  
• OCLC Connexion: Browser Interface for Cataloging
  
• OCLC ILL Web Interface Basics
  
• OCLC Interlibrary Loan Micro Enhancer
  

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DATABASE ROADSHOW 2003

The Database Roadshow kicked off its 2003 schedule on July 30 in Alliance. Since then four Roadshow training sessions have been held in Alliance, Omaha, Norfolk and Beatrice. Since July, Allana Novotny and Susan Knisely have trained sixty-three librarians on how to use the electronic database resources available at no cost to Nebraska libraries and schools.

All four remaining Roadshow training opportunities are full, but if you would like to register to be placed on a waiting list for any of the sessions, please visit our web site at: </netserv/roadshowreg.html>.

Kearney - September 10, 2003 - 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, Meridian System Office, 3519 Second Avenue, Suite B, Kearney
West Point - September 24, 2003 - 9:30 am - 3:00 pm,
John A Stahl Library , 330 North Colfax, West Point
Holdrege - October 2, 2003 - 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, Holdrege Public Library, 604 East Avenue, Holdrege
Lincoln - October 7, 2003 - 9:30 am - 3:00 pm, Nebraska Library Commission, Heron Room, 1200 N Street, Lincoln

For training materials you can use on your own or to help train others in your library or school, please visit: </netserv/Trainingmaterials.html>
 

Shannon Behrhorst
Network Services/NEBASE Director
Nebraska Library Commission

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NEW FROM NEBASE: STREAMLINED ACCESS TO WORLDCAT

In order to streamline access to WorldCat, the most popular database in the FirstSearch Base Package and host to the Nebraska Union Catalog, the Nebraska Library Commission Network Services department has obtained a new FirstSearch account from OCLC. This account provides access to ONLY the WorldCat database. This new account will NOT affect the availability of WorldCat through libraries' current FirstSearch accounts.

This WorldCat account will be available for use by all Nebraska libraries that have registered for FirstSearch through the Library Commission. Login information for this account was originally sent out over the TRIAL mailing list. To have this information sent to you directly contact the Network Services department at 800-307-2665, 402-471-3849 or e-mail Network Services.

A link to the new WorldCat account has been added to the Library Commission's Electronic Databases web page available at </databases>.

Libraries without IP-address recognition should login using the authorization and password referenced above.

Libraries with IP-address recognition can add the following URL to their websites:
<http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP?autho=100268425>.

As always, libraries are encouraged to distribute this FirstSearch login information to patrons to use from home.

This new WorldCat account is intended to provide libraries with an alternate way to connect their users to the WorldCat database. Libraries interested in promoting the use of WorldCat to their patrons should find this new account enhances usability in several ways:

1. It eliminates the need for patrons to first login to FirstSearch and then select WorldCat from a list of databases. Instead, patrons are taken immediately to the WorldCat Advanced Search screen.
   
2. It eliminates the Home and Databases tabs from the top of each FirstSearch screen, resulting in a cleaner, less cluttered interface.
   
3. It enables libraries with static IP addresses to link directly to WorldCat from their websites. Singling out the WorldCat database by giving it a separate link makes it easier to describe the resource to patrons (e.g. libraries can annotate a link to WorldCat with descriptive text such as Look up books, videos, CDs, etc. owned by libraries worldwide).

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REMINDER: YEAR-ROUND DISCOUNTS ON H.W. WILSON DATABASES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE NEBRASKA LIBRARY COMMISSION

Have you ever considered expanding your offering of H.W. Wilson databases beyond the OmniFile Full Text Select and Biographies Plus Illustrated products provided through the statewide database program? If so, don't forget that you are eligible for discounted pricing if you order through the Nebraska Library Commission!

Because the Nebraska Library Commission maintains a distributorship relationship with the H.W. Wilson Company, Nebraska libraries are eligible to receive up to 10% off list price when ordering databases owned by H.W. Wilson, and 5% off list price when ordering databases provided through H.W. Wilson but owned by a third party. Libraries must place their orders with the Nebraska Library Commission in order to receive these discounts.

To place an order with the Nebraska Library Commission, libraries should:

1. Contact Jeannette Powell at 800-307-2665, 402-471-7740, or e-mail Jeannette Powell for a price quote.
   
2. Print out and complete the order form located at </netserv/wilsonorder.html>.
   
3. Mail the order form to Jeannette Powell, Nebraska Library Commission, 1200 N Street, Suite 120, Lincoln, NE 68508-2023 or Fax: 402-471-2083.

• Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text - The familiar Index to Legal Periodicals is now available in a full text version that contains articles from nearly 200 select periodicals, dating as far back as 1994.
  
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1918-1981 - Coming Spring 2004! This retrospective database contains the indexing from 28 printed cumulations. Pricing options include annual web access or a one-time sign-up fee plus nominal annual maintenance charge.
  
• Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 - Coming Fall 2003! This retrospective database allows users to simultaneously search the equivalent of over 46 print cumulations. Pricing options include annual web access or a one-time sign-up fee plus nominal annual maintenance charge.

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NETLIBRARY SHARED EBOOK COLLECTION

The current shared collection of netLibrary eBook titles is 7,923. The latest title load occurred on August 29th. At this time there are 5,662 MARC records available for download from the WorldCat collection sets web site. The collection is open for purchase until December 31, 2003.

At this time 60 Nebraska libraries are participating in this shared collection. If you are interested in reading more about the current netLibrary Shared Collection offer please visit, </netserv/netlibrary2003.html>.

To see a current list of the netLibrary titles available in this collection visit, </netserv/netlibrary/2003titles/index.html>.

Pricing for the current shared collection is shown below.

Academic Libraries
Four-year: $1.00 per FTE with no additional fees for at least five years.
Two-year: $0.50 per FTE with no additional fees for at least five years.
($250.00 minimum)

Public Libraries
5% of registered borrowers x $1.00 with no additional fees for at least five years.
($250.00 minimum)

K-12 Schools
$0.50 per FTE with no additional fees for at least five years.
($250.00 minimum)

INTERNET LIBRARIAN CONFERENCE DISCOUNT

NEBASE is offering a group discount to all librarians in Nebraska who attend the Internet Librarian 2003 conference. This year it will be held at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, California, on November 3-5, 2003. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference web page at <http://www.infotoday.com/il2003/default.htm>.

The price of the conference with the discount is $215 for the three-day event (November 3-5, 2003). This is more than a 40% savings off the regular price. No discount rates are available for the pre-conference seminars and workshops.

In addition, discount prices of $169 on the Internet@Schools conference (November 2-3, 2003) and $259 for the combo of the Internet Librarian general conference and Internet@Schools (November 2-5, 2003) are also available.

To register for the conference, print off the registration form located at <http://www.infotoday.com/il2003/IL2003Registration.pdf>. Mail the completed form to Jodene Glaesemann at the following address:

Jodene Glaesemann
Nebraska Library Commission
The Atrium
1200 N St., Suite 120
Lincoln, NE 68508-2023
Phone: 800-307-2665 or 402-471-4009

Payment must accompany your registration form. Please make checks or money orders payable to Information Today, Inc. To receive the discount, your registration MUST be sent to the Nebraska Library Commission. Completed registration forms must be received by September 19, 2003.

Susan Knisely
Online Services Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission

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LISTEN & LIVE AUDIO DISCOUNT AVAILABLE TO NEBRASKA LIBRARIES

Listen & Live Audio is pleased to extend the following discount and terms for its entire catalog of best-selling audiobooks on CD and cassette to all public, private and school libraries served by the Nebraska Library Commission.

• 40% Discount
  
• Free Lifetime CD and Cassette Replacement
  
• Free Shipping
  
• Vinyl Library Packaging ("shelf-ready")
  
• Toll-Free Order Line -- 800-653-9400
  

• Fax: 973-781-0333
  
• E-mail:  <kellyr@listenandlive.com>
  
• Phone: 800-653-9400
  
• Mail: P.O. Box 817 Roseland, NJ 07068
  

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TOOLS OF THE TRADE

While technical services staff do not need tools such as a hammer or chisel to create catalog records, there are some cataloging tools that are essential to doing the best job of creating a record that is useful to patrons. These tools are based on rules that the cataloging community agree upon. Although some might feel these rules take so long to change to reflect new technologies, medias, and ideas that they might as well be chiseled in stone, changes are taking place. As proof of this, several new editions of our basic cataloging tools are or will shortly be available. Each of the new publications or services is listed below with a brief description of the incorporated changes and/or additions.

Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition, 2002 Revision (0-8389-3529-X)
Especially important for those libraries that contribute cataloging to a shared database, Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR2) helps catalogers to consistently describe materials to enable patrons to locate the desired item. Published irregularly as a new edition, amendments are issued between editions to keep rules current with changes in library collections and technology. The last published edition was the 1998 revision.

While the first obvious change in the new edition of AACR2 is a return to the previous loose-leaf format (in a 3-ring binder to allow for ease of updating), there also are many changes in the content. Some of the changes are incorporations of amendments issued in 1999 and 2001, such as the change of the GMD from "computer file" to "electronic resource" and the rewritten chapter nine now titled "Electronic Resources" that includes changes in the description of electronic materials.

Of the changes new to this edition, many relate to serial publications. A rewritten chapter 12, formerly "Serials" now titled "Continuing Resources," makes distinctions between "successively issued resources (i.e. serials)" and "ongoing integrating resources (e.g. updating loose-leafs, updating Web Sites)." These changes have in turn brought about changes in MARC coding.  Additional changes related to serials appear in Chapter 21, "Choice of Access Points." As any serials cataloger knows, changing serials' titles is one of a serials publisher's favorite pastimes. To help reduce the number of records that are required by these title changes, major and minor changes have been outlined-major changes requiring a new record and minor changes requiring only an addition of a title access field and/or note field to the existing record.

Classification Numbers
To make it easy for patrons to find materials and to encourage browsing, most libraries use one of two classification systems to organize materials by subject within a discipline. The Dewey Decimal Classification system is used by most public libraries. New editions will be available of the unabridged, abridged, and electronic versions.

Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, 22nd edition, 4 v., 2003 (0-910608-70-9)
Although the unabridged print edition of Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index is published only every seven years or so, Library of Congress staff continually work with the system to keep it up to date. As new events occur, new topics/activities are developed, and as collections expand or become more specialized, new or expanded classification numbers are required. To meet these needs, the 22nd edition has many new built numbers and changes. A few representative examples include:

• as a new century has begun, the DDC number 973.93 has been assigned for General history of the United States, 2001-";
  
• DDC 394.2612 has been assigned for Kwanzaa;
  
• DDC numbers have been added for specialized exercises: 613.7188 for "Exercises for muscles of specific parts of body," 613.71881 for "Back exercises," 613.71886 for Abdominal exercises," etc.;
  
• in the final reorganization phase of the Religion class, topics from the DDC 291 section "Comparative religion" have been reassigned to sections 201-209.

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