1. State Librarian’s Quarterly Webcast Susan Hildreth March 1, 2006 Noon – 1pm

2. LSTA 06/07 97 applications received Exceed available funding by over $10 million O6/07 Program 63 Competitive/34 Priority Proposals Phased application process Project with outcome measures determined by State Library staff Full proposals due April 21 st Award decisions announced by mid-June

3. Live Homework Help Identify funding for statewide service Add more libraries to program Provide both in-library and remote access Remote access – most heavily used Total cost – 75% remote/25% in-library

4. Current participants –Support 25% remote access costs + in-library costs – 06/07 –Local support increase in future years – 50%, 75%, 100% New participants –Available funding being determined – 06/07 –Competitive process being developed –1st year – in-library and remote –Future years – some local support required

5. Emergent Literacy Available funding being determined 1 st year – Statewide train the trainer approach – 06/07 2 nd year – Targeted grant opportunity – 07/08 Leverage literacy service or community partner

6. Open WorldCat/California Libraries Catalog Primary goal is search engine access to Library records 21 st century information seeker: –Uses search engines to meet information needs –Satisfied with results from search engines –Does not seek out library resources –Unaware of value in library resources 21 st century library: –Library websites on Internet are not sufficient –Resources must be where customer goes for information –Libraries must push resources to users

7. Open WorldCat OpenWorldCat is subset of OCLC WorldCat WorldCat – 55 million records Open WorldCat – 4-5 million records, most frequently used Open WorldCat initially free FirstSearch subscription required for access in 2005 Library records and holdings accessed via Google &Yahoo Library resources found without going to library website

8. California Libraries Catalog – CalCat OCLC develops statewide catalogs as part of Group Services –i.e, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Montana. CalCat - subset of WorldCat, 15.8 million records of 1221 libraries Creation of CalCat - result of Open WorldCat project, not primary purpose Provides regional access to library records OCLC providing training throughout state

9. How the project works Funded by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Califa is State Library partner –Public libraries receive subscriptions to FirstSearch –Public libraries update records in OCLC – “Batchload” –Public libraries not in OCLC can add records –Records in CalCat/ available in Google/Yahoo via Open WorldCat.

10. Challenges Access to CalCat –No authentication for public library records –OCLC requires authentication for all California library records Customer awareness of resource –Need to provide info re search engine access –Access to Yahoo, Google, Firefox –http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/searchtools/default.htm –Yahoo most seamless, Firefox also good –Need statewide PR for customers

11. Effective use of CalCat –Most effective with deep linking to online catalogs –Local concerns re workload, collection drain State Library/LSTA support –Funding for First Search subscriptions/CalCat to continue in 06/07 –Free batchloading continues through 2006 –Non-OCLC libraries hesitant to join/incur new costs

12. Gates Projects PACHUG Two programs –Over 300,000 population – direct with Gates –Under 300,000 population – administered by State Library Under 300K program –Application just submitted to Gates –Approved funds to State Library by end of April –Funds issued to libraries by CA State Library Foundation For more information –http://www.infopeople.org/partners/gates/pac_hug.html –Ira Bray – ibray@library.ca.gov, 916-653-0171

13. Staying Connected Training to support public access computing Implemented by Infopeople –Helping the Public Use Public Access Computers –Public Access Computing – Best Practices –Desktop Configuration for Public Access Computing

14. Spanish Language Outreach Operated through WebJunction Implemented by Infopeople Increase technology in Spanish-speaking community Improve skills of library staff Intensive 4-day training in Seattle 4 trainers providing 20 workshops http://www.infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Workshop/260 Infopeople scheduling related workshops

15. Rural Library Sustainability Similar to Spanish Language Outreach Rural communities identified One-day technology planning session 16 sessions throughout state Follow-up training depending on priorities