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 OCLS News 

JAN 2014
In this Update
Collect Debuts in February
eBook Project Update
Know Your eResources Timeline
RDA Training Webinar Series
Happy New Year from the OCLS staff!
Next Generation Colleges Union Catalogue - Collect Debuts in February

By Virginia Roy & Alex Eykelhof

Since we first wrote about Collect - College Libraries Central, the Colleges Union Catalogue digital repository, in the OCLS Fall newsletter the User Interface Working Group and the Colleges Union Catalogue and Libraries Digital Repository Steering Group (CUCLDRSG) have been hard at work finalizing the look, feel and navigation for Collect. As the next generation of the Colleges Union Catalogue, we are pleased to report that Collect will make its public debut at the OCLS Breakfast at the Ontario Library Association Conference (OLA) on Friday January 31. Read on for more details on enhancements. 
eBook Project Update
By Cindy Duncan & Thomas Guignard 

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n November the Colleges eBook Consortium project entered the fourth and final phase of its Implementation Analysis (IAP) work. The emphasis in this phase is on summarizing the results of the implementation analysis, defining a consortium structure and developing the final business case. Read on to learn more about the project.
Know Your eResources Timeline
By Coralee Leroux

eresources update
The end-of-fiscal-year timeline for the libraries' eResources Deposit Accounts has been released. Library staff with access to the eResources Portal can view the complete timeline.

Don't miss these important dates and deadlines:

Week of Jan 13

 2013/14 Deposit Account Balance issued

Jan 31

Deadline for approving deposit account top-up invoices  

Feb 3

2014/15 Deposit Account Estimate issued

Feb 18

Deadline for authorizing purchases from the 2013/14 deposit account

Mar 7

Deadline for approving or modifying the 2014/15 Deposit Account Estimate

April 1

2014/15 Deposit Account Invoice issued

April 30

Payment due for 2014/15 Deposit Account Invoice

February 10th and 24th RDA Training Webinar Series with Trina Grover funded by OCLS
By Stacey Boileau

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his February OCLS, in connection with the BSWG and the Joint RDA Subcommittee, is pleased to host two new RDA training webinars for college library staff. Taught by Trina Grover and designed to support the minimum standard for upload into the Colleges Union Catalogue, the training will pick up where Trina left off last June. The first webinar will focus on Works and Expressions followed by Relationships. Hands on work and examples describing different formats will be used with reference to the newly revised minimum standard for the Colleges Union Catalogue. Stay tuned for more details on the Cataloguers Forum. To register for one or both sessions please click here.
Introducing Request Tracker 2.0
By Wendy Traas & Tara Knott

  Request Tracker, or RT, is a customer request tracking and resolution management system that OCLS uses to efficiently manage and respond to library service requests made to the OCLS helpdesk. We have improved the RT interface to make it easier to submit requests through the online form. Read on for details on recent enhancements. Click here to see the RT training video.
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Announcements 

* 2nd Annual OCLS Breakfast     
Friday, Jan. 31st, 2014
7:30am - 8:45am at the Intercontinental Hotel (ICH), room TBD. Please RSVP by noon on Friday, January 23 ; include your name, library and email address to Stacey Boileau at [email protected] or call Maria at 647-722-9309   

*Dawson elected OLITA Councillor at large  

 

OCLS is excited to announce that Jan Dawson, Ask Ontario Project Manager, was elected 2014 OLITA Councillor at Large for a 3-yr term.  

 

*ORION 2013 Snapshot 

 

OCLS and askON are featured on pg 18 of