March 9th, 2010, 11:53am by Evan Struble
OCLC NetLibrary has introduced 31 all new eBook Subject Sets for 2010, with a total of 95 eBook and eAudiobook Subject Sets. The Subject Sets are grouped in 11 collection categories and the new sets include Graphic & Visual Arts, Photography, Entrepreneurship, Sports Administration, Green Technology, Geriatrics, Travel Guides, Library Administration and more. Additionally, there are three iPod-compatible eAudibook Subject Sets available.
Selected from our catalog of more than 200,000 titles, Subject Sets are available for all library types and include OCLC MARC records, marketing support and implementation services at no additional charge. As always, there is no duplication from set to set, or from previous years’ sets. Libraries can purchase by individual Subject Set or by category for complete subject coverage. Please note that Subject Sets are available to individual libraries and multi-branch library systems only and are not available for consortia sales. All titles included in Subject Sets have been cleared for worldwide distribution.
Complete title lists and additional resources are available at:
March 1st, 2010, 8:34am by Evan Struble
Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting
April 7-9, 2010
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Two pre-conference sessions to be presented on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, at the University of Iowa. The CONTENTdm Users Group meeting will follow on Thursday and Friday, April 8 and 9, 2010. Pre-conference registration is $35.00 per session with lunch on your own. The meeting registration is $75.00 per person, which includes lunch and breaks. The pre-conference sessions will focus on:
- The Care and Feeding of Compound Objects!
Presented by Geri Ingram, OCLC Digital Collection Services
- Scaling Down to Scale Up: Streamlining Production for Mass Digitization Efforts
Presented by the University of Iowa’s Digital Library Services department staff
Click here to register for pre-conference sessions.
Click here to register for the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting
February 26th, 2010, 11:54am by Evan Struble
OCLC is happy to announce that the WorldCat Collection Analysis Quarterly Update (through December 2009) has been released. The WorldCat “snapshot” was taken on December 28, 2009. The following updates were made with this install:
- The date range of 2000-2004 has been added to the date ranges that are broken out in 10 year intervals, and 2010 has been added
- Based on librarian feedback and input, any new comparisons created will be FRBRized. This default setting is set as “Apply FRBR Algorithm”
- Any pre-existing peer comparisons won’t have had FRBR applied. If you would like an old comparison to run with the FRBR algorithm, please delete the old one and re-request it using the FRBR option.
- The interdisciplinary studies link has been added to the Support and Training page under Best Practices. Here you will find step-by-step instructions and screen shots for creating your interdisciplinary studies analysis. http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/collectionanalysis/default.htm
For general inquiries about WCA that are not answered directly on our site, send a message to wcageneral@oclc.org.
February 18th, 2010, 4:48pm by Evan Struble
OCLC is pleased to introduce CONTENTdm® Digital Collection Management Software version 5.3.
With version 5.3, additional platforms are supported for the CONTENTdm Project Client and CONTENTdm Server. The Project Client now runs on Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Windows Vista (64-bit), and the Server now runs on Linux (64-bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2. (For a complete list of supported systems, visit www.oclc.org/contentdm/requirements/.)
Additionally, a new import feature enables libraries, museums and other cultural heritage organizations with records already in WorldCat to import metadata and OCLC numbers easily into CONTENTdm. Streamlining the import of metadata and OCLC numbers from WorldCat into CONTENTdm will be particularly useful to users that are managing the mass digitization of items with existing WorldCat records.
This release also includes improved sorting and editing functionality in the Project Client’s project spreadsheet. Users will now have the ability to sort all metadata fields (columns) displayed in the project spreadsheet. And when editing metadata in the project tab, the thumbnail image and checkbox are now frozen in the far left columns, which will help users keep the records in the spreadsheet in context while editing and viewing metadata.
Other enhancements include improvements to Upload Manager error reporting and OCR License resetting. The new release is available to current CONTENTdm licensees at no additional charge.
CONTENTdm is used by institutions worldwide to manage thousands of digital collections. To see how some of these institutions are using CONTENTdm, visit www.oclc.org/contentdm/collections/.