Sign up for one of the following training sessions today!

Public Library Sessions (11:00 am CST)

• Tuesday, March 9
• Thursday, April 15
• Tuesday, May 11

  Academic Sessions (2:00 pm CST)

• Tuesday, March 9
• Thursday, April 15
• Tuesday, May 11

K-12 Sessions – covering all grade levels (5:00 pm CST)

• Thursday, March 11
• Tuesday, April 13
• Thursday, May 13

K-12 Elementary Sessions

• Thursday, March 11 (11:00 am CST)
• Tuesday, April 13 (3:00 pm CST)
• Thursday, May 13 (11:00 am CST)

K-12 Secondary Sessions

• Thursday, March 11 (3:00 pm CST)
• Tuesday, April 13 (11:00 am CST)
• Thursday, May 13 (3:00 pm CST)

NEW! Advanced – Creating Workspaces & Putting Videos into PowerPoint™ (3:00 pm CST)

• Wednesday, March 10
• Wednesday, April 14
• Wednesday, May 12

Learn all about using the Workspace feature in your classroom/library with your students and patrons! The Workspace feature is a versatile tool that can be used in many different ways. During this one-hour webinar, you will also learn how to put the videos available to you on Britannica Online into PowerPoint™ presentations. This webinar is available for all Britannica Online subscribers, but it is strongly recommend that you attend an introductory webinar first. You can register for any of the introductory webinars above.

Contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org) for subscription and pricing details or visit the BCR website for additional options.

New Entries on Library and Information Science Careers
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center now includes new information on careers in library and information science. Many users are unaware of the broad range of activities that takes place behind the average library's doors, including exhibitions, readings by authors, conferences of scholars and more. This update provides clear, comprehensive descriptions of careers in this exciting field, from traditional library jobs to exciting positions in the dynamic field of information science.

New job profiles include:

• Academic Librarian
• Information Architect
• Records Manager

New Entries on the Transportation Industry
The transportation industry involves much more than just the movement of people and cargo. The accessible new information added with this update will help users understand the wide range of transportation careers, from transporting people and cargo to building transportation infrastructure to enforcing laws and regulations. Ground, air, rail, maritime, pipeline and other diverse areas of transportation are covered.

New job profiles include:

• Federal Air Marshal
• Naval Architect
• Subway Operator

New Entries on the Music and Publishing Industries
Also included in this update are new and revised job profiles in two popular, creative industries: music and publishing. The wealth of new content covers the wide variety of exciting career options in the music industry, from making and selling records to managing the technology that helps record companies and musicians create and distribute music. In addition, the thorough coverage includes all aspects of the publishing industry, from newspaper and magazine publishing to book publishing. The new material provides a valuable starting point for career research.

New and revised profiles include:

• Literary Agent
• Session Musician
• Sound Technician

For additional information, contact BCR's Chris Cook (ccook@bcr.org).

Sign up now for a free Credo Reference webinar. Full details and access instructions can be found at the Credo Reference website.

• Friday, March 5 (1:00 pm CST / 12:00 noon MST / 11:00 am PST)
• Wednesday, March 10 (10:00 am CST / 9:00 am MST / 8:00 am PST)
• Friday, March 12 (2:00 pm CST / 1:00 pm MST / 12:00 noon PST)

Webinars last about one hour and will cover the following topics:

• Content
• New platform
• Search functionality
• Credo Reference Administrative System
• Promoting capabilities
• Recent reviews
• Other features

For subscription and pricing details, contact BCR's Jay Ford (jford@bcr.org) or visit the BCR website.

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.

For general inquiries about WorldCat Collection Analysis that are not answered directly on our site, send a message to wcageneral@oclc.org.

To celebrate the new season, enjoy savings of 20% on Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese OCLC Language Sets when you order by May 28, 2010 and request shipment by June 30, 2010.

OCLC Language Sets provide everything you need to start, maintain and expand a collection of non-English books, CDs and DVDs. They also come with MARC records for each title and all materials are available for discovery on the web through WorldCat.org.

For more information, call 1-800-898-6252, email langsets@oclc.org or visit www.oclc.org/info/languagesets.

The workshop, designed for multiple representatives from a collaborative, will provide the information and tools the collaborative needs to develop a long-term preservation plan that will work for its unique collections and organizations.

Register now for the April workshop: http://www.bcr.org/training/workshops/register.html

April 13, 14 and 16 from 1-3 pm ET: Three webinars will address the following topics:

• Introduction to the Digital Preservation Landscape
• Digital Preservation Standards
• Sustaining the Digital Investment: Developing a Digital Preservation Program
• Developing Preservation Policies for Collaboratives

April 28-29 at LYRASIS – Philadelphia:  Two full-day sessions will address the following topics:

• Elements of TRAC
• Using TRAC in Planning and Assessment
• Technology and Technical Infrastructure

Faculty and program staff will host monthly follow-up activities, including webinars, to assist collaboratives in completing their preservation plans.

The workshop will be taught by a faculty of digital preservation experts:

Liz Bishoff, Director of Digital & Preservation Services, BCR
Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation
Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant for New Initiatives, LYRASIS
Robin Dale, Director of Digital Services, LYRASIS
Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute and Program Manager, MetaArchive Cooperative

Cost is $150 per individual registration and $125 per member of a registered collaborative team.

For more information, please visit:  http://www.bcr.org/dps/training/neh-dpdc.html.

Questions? Contact Holly South.

Partial funding for this workshop is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

On Friday, March 5, Jay will present Learn, Grow, Achieve: A BCR Update from 10:40-11:40 am. Join him as he explains the new ways and the ‘tried and true’ methods BCR is working on to help our member libraries in these challenging times.

Also, take a few minutes out of your busy schedule to stop by the BCR booth, ask questions and learn who BCR is and how our professional staff can help your library or institution better serve its patrons and users. BCR's professional staff can help libraries keep pace with the latest developments in technology and services through our varied continuing education and training programs, and our broad range of products helps librarians stay current in today’s quickly changing environment.

Want to know more about digital capture, including scanning techniques and digital capture equipment? Check out Picture This! Understanding Digital Image Capture.

Perhaps you already have your digital images, but want to know how to describe them so that patrons can find them on your website. For the metadata newbie, consider taking our Introduction to Metadata for the Digital Environment and learn about what metadata is and what it can do for your digital resources.

Maybe your organization has already decided to use Dublin Core to describe its digital collections. Sign up for our Introduction to Dublin Core workshop and get hands-on practice with Dublin Core metadata elements. You will have an opportunity to work with your own digital resources or with provided examples.

Has your library or organization already started digitizing and making digital resources available on the web? How are you going to let people know about your wonderful new digital program? Check out Generation Archives 2.0: Tools for Promoting Your Archives on the Web. Although the workshop is geared towards archives and archivists, any organization with digital collections will want to take this class to learn about using Web 2.0 to reach their patrons.

Whatever your digital challenges, look to BCR to help you meet them!