• WorldShare ILL Migration: Overview for Illinois Libraries (1 hour)
• WorldShare ILL Borrowing (2 hours)
• WorldShare ILL Lending (2 hours)

Libraries are encouraged to attend all three sessions. They will be recorded so that staff can view them at a later date as a review of the information.

All  WorldShare WebEx Webinars have been entered into the Library Learning (L2) database at http://www.librarylearning.info/tags/?WSILL. The first class is May 30. Although classes have been scheduled to coordinate training for Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) and Illinois Heartland Library System (IHLS) members, these classes are also open to all other Illinois libraries that use OCLC for interlibrary loan. Pick the series of classes that best fit your schedule.

As written in the ILLINET Interlibrary Loan & Reciprocal Borrowing Code (2008), libraries are to annually submit interlibrary loan statistics to the Illinois State Library. The ILLINET Interlibrary Loan & Reciprocal Borrowing survey serves many purposes, and has been a useful tool for several Illinois State Library committees as they work towards meeting the resource sharing needs of Illinois libraries.

If you have questions, please follow these guidelines:

Username/Password
Contact any of these Illinois State Library staff members:

• Becky Hunter, bhunter1@ilsos.net, 217-782-7849
• Gwen Harrison,gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334
• Robert Jones, rjones1@ilsos.net, 217-785-1168.
  The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x2.

Content/Subject Matter
Contact any of these Illinois State Library staff members:

• Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334
• Robert Jones, rjones1@ilsos.net, 217-785-1168.
  The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x2.

Technology Issues:
Contact Counting Opinions at 1-800-521-4930.

As was announced earlier, many Illinois libraries are scheduled to transition and receive WorldShare training in September and October.  However, some schedule changes will impact libraries that are members of regional library system consortial catalogs.  Specifically, consortial catalog members in the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) will begin the WorldShare migration in May. Members of the Illinois Heartland Library System (IHLS) consortial catalog will start their training in late August.

Here are two steps that will help prepare all Illinois OCLC libraries for the migration to WorldShare:

• Make sure that your library’s constant data records are accurate and updated with the correct address fields.  Here is a link to a brief tutorial from OCLC on Constant Data Record Updating.  http://oc.lc/cU4q23

• Review the data in your library’s OCLC Policy Directory. If you have not set up your policies now is the time to do so. If it has been awhile since you have looked at the Policy Directory, now is the time to review the information to be sure it still accurately reflects what you do. Here is a link to the OCLC Policies Directory Quick Reference guide that will help you in updating the Policy Directory.

The service’s interoperation with other applications, such as the display of lender costs from the OCLC Policies Directory and display of item availability from a library’s ILS, will be supported by the new WorldShare Platform.

Initial release of the new service is planned for this March. Between March and December 2013, the WorldCat Resource Sharing and WorldShare Interlibrary Loan services will function in parallel. Access to WorldCat Resource Sharing is scheduled to end December 31, 2013.

Illinois libraries are scheduled to transition to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan in September and October 2013. There are some things libraries can do now to begin preparations for your library’s move to WorldShare Interlibrary loan later this year. Suggestions for advance preparation are outlined on the migration website.

If you have questions about the upcoming migration, please contact Jimmy Kuckelheim at OCLC.

If you are interested in serving, please compose a brief letter of application with your name, workplace, address, phone, fax and email. Briefly explain why you would like to serve and explain your knowledge of the ILLINET Interlibrary Loan Code. E-mail your letter of application to Robert Jones at rjones1@ilsos.net on or before February 1, 2013. Interested persons from all library types are encouraged to apply. For those persons who wish to apply but cannot attend in-person sessions, please contact Robert Jones for alternative options.

If you have questions, please follow these guidelines:

USERNAME/PASSWORD: Contact Becky Hunter, bhunter1@ilsos.net, 217-557-7259 or Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334. The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x1.

CONTENT/SUBJECT MATTER: Contact Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334.  The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x1. 

SOFTWARE OR TECHNOLOGY ISSUES: Contact Bibliostat at 1-866-785-9935.

Beginning in FY12, billing services for ILLINET/OCLC Services will be performed by the new Illinois Heartland Library System (created from the merger of Lincoln Trail, Lewis and Clark, Rolling Prairie and Shawnee Library Systems).  FY12 contracts and invoices will be sent under separate cover after the pricing notification is distributed; the contracts will be issued from the Illinois State Library, and the invoices from the Illinois Heartland Library System. 

OCLC WorldCat/FirstSearch and SILC, the Statewide Illinois Library Catalog, will continue to be available in FY12.  The Illinois State Library is once again providing these resources for all Illinois libraries.

Please contact Suzanne Schriar, 217-785-1533, sschriar@ilsos.net, with any questions.

• USERNAME/PASSWORD: Contact any of these Illinois State Library staff members: Becky Hunter, bhunter1@ilsos.net, 217-557-7259 or Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334 or Ron Winner, rwinner@ilsos.net, 217-785-1168. The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x1.
• CONTENT/SUBJECT MATTER: Contact any of these Illinois State Library staff members: Gwen Harrison, gharrison@ilsos.net, 217-785-7334 or Ron Winner, rwinner@ilsos.net, 217-785-1168. The 800 number is 1-800-665-5576 x1.
• SOFTWARE OR TECHNOLOGY ISSUES: Contact Bibliostat at 1-866-785-9935.  

• Define Interlibrary Loan
• Discuss the ILLINET Interlibrary Loan Code
• Discuss Interlibrary Loan Policies – Do you have one? What should be included?
• Discuss ILL Borrowing Practices – What are your responsibilities  when you are requesting an item?
• Discuss ILL Lending Practices – What are your responsibilities when you are lending an item to another library?
• Discuss Photocopies and Copyright Compliance – What are your responsibilities when you are requesting a photocopy?

In addition to the primary content,  this  free online course includes value added helpful resources such as a flip book of the ILLINET Interlibrary Loan code, presentations on how to write an ILL policy, interactive content reviews and screencasts of various ILL procedures.

Enroll now and find out more about the Essential Elements of Interlibrary Loan in Illinois! Be sure that you are logged into WJIL before clicking on the course links. Only those who are registered WJIL users logged into the site will see the course listed at $0.