1. LTS All Staff Meeting
Spring 2008

3. Waiting for…

4. Today’s agenda Unit reports LeBlanc on WCL Q & A
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Database Management
Electronic Resources & Serials Management
Metadata
LeBlanc on WCL
Q & A
Anne Kenney Talks Shop
Lunch!

5. Acquisitions Services
What’s new (since last time) ?
Two staff members: Yael Zucker and Masayo Uchiyama

6. Acquisitions accomplishments
Processed a record number of firm orders compared to the same point of FY 2006/07
- 25,658 vs.18,264 (40 %, or 7,400)
- Exceed the total of 06/07 by end March
- Help from other LTS units (Peter & Chip)
- ITSO > WCS orders up
- Order requests changed in the web era

7. Acquisitions accomplishments
Kept up with timely receiving
Help from other LTS units (Laurie & Dorothy)
Added flexibility by cross training staff
Expect heavy receiving to continue through June

8. Acquisitions challenges
Uneven work load
Beginning vs. end of FY
Lag time between orders and receiving
More cross training between Ordering and Receiving units
Work with vendors to increase automation
Chinese, Spanish, Latin American vendors
Folding e-books into mainstream acquisitions plans

9. Cataloging Services Update
New initiatives
OCLC serials reclamation
Microform reclamation
Voyager testing
Ongoing projects
Rare and gifts cataloging
E-resources
Completion of Harris recon

10. Electronic Resources & Serials Management Unit (ERSM)
Office Changes / Staff Changes
Print Serials Check-in
Tracking System for new e-resources acquisitions, licensing & cataloging
E-books, e-series, ERM

11. OCLC WorldCat Local: What Is It? Why Now?
Jim LeBlanc
LTS Staff Meeting
March 24, 2008

12. WorldCat Local: What Is It?
A global catalog of 98M BIB records
Prioritizes local holdings
Includes holdings from thousands of other libraries

13. WorldCat Local: What Is It?
Displays local volume holdings and circulation information in real time
Provides seamless interface for local Borrow Direct and ILL clients

14. WorldCat Local: Why Now?
Access more important than ownership
Need to make holdings more readily visible beyond the local catalog
Plans for Web 2.0 initiatives

15. WorldCat Local: Why Now?
Plans to broaden access to full-text article content
Design based on usability studies with real library patrons

16. Want to see it?
Do a Google search on “university of washington libraries,” OR
Check out
WorldCat Local version of CUL catalog coming later this spring

17. Conclusion: Find globally, get locally!
(Karen Calhoun; ALA Midwinter 2008)