Wisconsin Public Library Consortium

Enter OverDrive’s 2012 Outeach Program Contest

staff — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:45:40 +0000

We’re always impressed by the creative ways in which OverDrive library and school partners promote their digital collections, and our annual Outreach Program Contest gives us a chance to recognize and reward some of your best efforts. Between now and June 30, we invite all OverDrive library partners to enter the contest by sharing community-outreach success stories. We have great prizes to give away, including an Apple iPad® for the winner of the brand-newTest Drive category. After the success of our 2011 Outreach Program Contest, we’re hoping for even more participation this year.

Share your creative and effective marketing efforts with us, and we’ll share them with the world. We want to hear about your promotional campaigns for eBooks and audiobooks, user-training events, or how your digital collection’s circulation has skyrocketed in the past six months due to your creative ideas.

Enter OverDrive’s 2012 Outeach Program Contest

We’ll announce the winners in early August. All library and education partners are welcome to participate, but entries submitted for previous Outreach Program contests are ineligible.

Looking for inspiration? Check out last year’s winning entries and take advantage of the marketing resources available in our Online Marketing Kit and in the Resources section of the Learning Center.

Please contact outreachcontest@overdrive.com with any questions.

Digital Media Buying Pool Webinar: archived recording

staff — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:10:39 +0000

WPLC provided a 90 minute webinar about Wisconsin’s digital media buying pool on Thursday, May 3, 2012. View the archived recording here.

Panelists briefly discussed why and how the buying pool was created, why they believe it makes sense for Wisconsin’s public libraries, what they’ve learned in the few months since it started, and how materials are selected for the collection.

Documents shared during the webinar:

Wisconsin’s Digital Media Buying Pool (Jim Trojanowski)
Funding pool tables (Jeff Gilderson-Duwe)
WPLC Selection Committee (Sara Gold)

Websites viewed during the webinar:

About the panelists:
• Jim Trojanowski is Director of Northern Waters Library Service and Chair of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), which created and maintains the digital media buying pool.
• Jeff Gilderson-Duwe is Director of Oshkosh Public Library and Winnefox Library System. He served as a member of the WPLC committee that developed the concept of the buying pool.
• Sara Gold is Cooperative Purchasing and Licensing Program Librarian at WiLS. She is consultant to the WPLC Selection Committee, which is responsible for purchasing content for the buying pool.

Digital Media Buying Pool Webinar: new login information!

staff — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:33:38 +0000

WPLC Digital Media Buying Pool webinar

Join us for a Webinar on May 3:

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/392762351

Please join Jim Trojanowski, Jeff Gilderson-Duwe, and Sara Gold for a 90 minute webinar about Wisconsin’s digital media buying pool at 10:00 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012.

We’ll briefly discuss why and how the buying pool was created, why we believe it makes sense for Wisconsin’s public libraries, what we’ve learned in the few months since it started, and how materials are selected for the collection.

Once our brief (15-30 minute) presentation is complete, there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

About the panel:

Jim Trojanowski is Director of Northern Waters Library Service and Chair of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), which created and maintains the digital media buying pool.

Jeff Gilderson-Duwe is Director of Oshkosh Public Library and Winnefox Library System. He served as a member of the WPLC committee that developed the concept of the buying pool.

Sara Gold is Cooperative Purchasing and Licensing Program Librarian at WiLS. She is consultant to the WPLC Selection Committee, which is responsible for purchasing content for the buying pool.

Title:	WPLC Digital Media Buying Pool webinar
Date:	Thursday, May 3, 2012
Time:	10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Next Board Meeting – May 22, 2012

staff — Tue, 01 May 2012 21:20:17 +0000

The next meeting of the WPLC Board will be held

10:00 am on Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Please submit agenda items to me no later than 8:00 am on Monday, May 14. I’ll get the agenda out by the following day at 4:00 pm. Items already submitted are:·

Review of the recalculation of the funding formula for the buying pool
Discussion of how to proceed with the letter to ebook publishers that I agreed to write
Discussion of BadgerLearn
Discussion of the WPLC gadgets as an agenda item.

Jim Trojanowski
jtrojanowski@nwls.lib.wi.us

OverDrive Website Refresh Tip

staff — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:39:40 +0000

With the WPLC/OverDrive website re-design, some browsers need a “hard” refresh in order to unscramble the display. In Firefox and Explorer, do this by clicking on Control-F5; in Chrome click on the little wrench in the upper right-hand corner, then under Tools, click on Clear browsing data.

For more information about clearing the cache: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache

Let me know if you have questions.

Jane Richard
Wisconsin Library Services
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium
jrichard@wils.wisc.edu