Are you interesting in improving your document delivery service through better performance by your scanner? Don’t miss this informative session.

Join our free RML Rendezvous webcast on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 1pm Pacific Time (2pm Mountain, noon Alaska) at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/rendezvous:

Not Through a Glass, Darkly: Tips and Tricks for Optimal Scanner Settings by Mary Van Court, Library Supervisor at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library.

As part of our Federal agency services regarding electronic and information technology resources being accessible to people with disabilities, closed captioning is now available on this and all future RML Rendezvous webcasts. If you are hearing impaired and in need of closed captioning, please contact Patricia Devine at devine@u.washington.edu by Monday, March 8 so we may gladly arrange for this service.

We look forward to seeing you at the webcast! For more information please visit How do I connect to the Rendezvous? to test your computer connection.

Interested in copyright issues?  Attend this free webinar sponsored by the Washington State Library: www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/copyright

• Get updates on new copyright tools and best practices that can be helpful for libraries;
• Learn the latest developments in copyright laws and cases, including the latest in the Google Book Search case, e-reserve and coursepack lawsuits.
• Learn about a simple procedure to file with the Copyright Office to minimize liability for user-supplied-content.

This webinar will be of interest to library staff who confront copyright issues in designing web pages, making digital copies for interlibrary loan and e-reserves, and will help those who fear receiving copyright infringement notices.

PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s free resource for searching millions of biomedical journal citations and abstracts, has undergone a significant facelift. The redesigned version is now live at http://pubmed.gov.

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Thank you for joining us during the PubMed Redesign Update web conference yesterday, August 11, 2009. We apologize if you were not able to join the meeting due to the 125 audio connection limitations, and for your patience during some rather odd audio disturbances during the session.

The audiovisual recording of the session that lasts just a little over a half hour is now available at https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p66847164/ PowerPoint slides from the Medical Library Association Online Users’ Meeting that are similar to yesterday’s presentation are available in the Editor’s Notes of the June 10, 2009 NLM Technical Bulletin

Questions and Answers from the session are available below for your review. Please do not hesitate to contact NCBI with your comments and suggestions at info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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by Michael Brewer – Team Leader for Undergraduate Services, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ brewerm@u.library.arizona.edu

With the support and expertise of the ALA OITP Copyright Advisory Subcommittee, Michael Brewer, University of Arizona Library, has developed two new tools that are now available online.

The first “108 Spinner” is specifically targeted to assist librarians with questions about when section 108 of the copyright code (the library and archives provision) applies. In general, this section allows for libraries or archives (under specific circumstances) to:

make copies of portions of works from their collections for users
make copies of entire works for users
make replacement copies of published works in their collections
make preservation copies of unpublished works in their collections.

The second tool “DitgitalSlider” helps you determine the copyright term of a work or whether it has fallen into the public domain. The URLs are:

http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

This notice originally appeared in SEA Currents published by the Southeastern/Atlantic Region in Baltimore, MD

New participants in the Pacific Northwest Region in the Electronic Fund Transfer (EFTS) System for interlibrary-loan and document delivery include: 

	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center      Seattle, WA (WAUFHC)
	Providence Portland Medical Center      Portland, OR (ORUPRO)
	Washington State University      Spokane, WA (WAUSPC)

EFTS virtually eliminates the need to create invoices and write checks for re-imbursement for interlibrary loans and document delivery between participants.  Among the advantages are monthly detailed transaction based reports, the ability to handle variable charges and the ability to handle non-DOCLINE transactions.

Interested in participating? See the demo on the EFTS home page , or contact Patricia Devine for assistance, devine@u.washington.edu, 206-543-8275.