MyLibrary

Provides personalized library services to Cornell users.

MyLibrary will be the answer to the many patron requests for personalized library services we receive at our reference desks. It will make finding and using library resources easier than ever. MyLibrary will notify patrons of new material in their fields of interest and provide an exciting new platform for patrons to engage with our increasingly electronic library.

The Library Gateway presents CUL's networked electronic resources very effectively, but for any single researcher most of the over two thousand items currently available through the Gateway are irrelevant to their specific research needs. Even after a user locates relevant electronic resources, they frequently have trouble finding the resource again. Enterprising users can bookmark some resources, but the bookmarks are on one machine, inevitably not the one they are sitting at when they need to find that link to a critical resource.

Another problem for library users is that resources are being added all the time, both to the Gateway and to the collections of all 19 libraries. Although some libraries attempt to create accessions lists for particular departments, in general only luck and word-of-mouth keep patrons informed of library acquisitions in their fields of study.

The initial implementation of MyLibrary will allow members of the Cornell community to create a personal space on a library server. Using the shopping cart model popularized by Web enterprises such as Amazon.com, library patrons will be able to choose the Gateway resources they use most often and add the links to them from their own personalized MyLibrary page. A graduate student working on African American literature could review the resources under "Literature and Linguistics" in the Library Gateway. She might choose the Modern Language Association bibliographic database, and the full-text journal Callaloo. She could also pick the electronic text collection, African American Women Writers of the 19th Century, and add the Literature Resource Center bio-bibliographical research database. She might then choose some relevant Web sites she had already identified from her own explorations on the Web, our own "Literature and Language" page, for example.

Now she has a personalized list of electronic resources which she can access from any computer on campus, in fact, any computer on the Internet. Access will be protected, of course, by net-id and password. The chosen links can be organized in folders. We will even provide her and every user with some pre-selected resources in folders titled "Library Resources" and "Internet Search Engines," so that from her personal workspace, called "MyLinks," she will have one click access to the online catalog, interlibrary loan forms, and "Help." Also, if she needs the full Library Gateway, that will be just a click away.

But that's not all. A little later in the semester Cornell Library patrons who want the library to notify them when resources in their field are added to the collection will be able to set up a research profile in MyLibrary. A faculty member in Anthropology working on foodways in the Trobriand Islands can create a profile by identifying their primary library or libraries (Mann Library for food and nutrition, Olin Library for anthropology) and by adding keywords to define the field in which they are interested ("Trobriand" and "foodways or food"). They will be notified automatically of resources added to the Library Gateway or to the Olin or Mann collections that have anything to do with foodways in the Trobriands. Notification will be at two-week intervals through electronic mail.

Of course, it will be possible to have several different profiles to reflect multiple research interests. And researchers can test their profile statements against the previous year's acquisitions to make sure they are getting the results they want.

MyLibrary has been developed by a cross-campus team of librarians led by Holly Mistlebauer from Mann Library. The group includes Suzanne Cohen, John Fereira, Angela Horne, Bob Kibbee, John Saylor, Adam Smith, Daniel Smith, Tom Turner, and Noni Korf Vidal.

MyLibrary will quickly develop into a platform for adding a wide range of personalized electronic services from tables of contents to immediate contact with subject specialists. For now, enjoy access to a personal space for acquiring links to frequently used resources. Later in the semester we'll implement the current awareness service for recent Gateway and library acquisitions in your area of interest. Contact Holly Mistlebauer with questions or comments.

Bob Kibbee , Reference Librarian

Illiad

Monday, January 17, 2000, marked the first day of Internet access to a full range of interlibrary loan services. The new online system, ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan internet accessible database), allows patrons to quickly and conveniently perform a variety of tasks such as: submitting new loan requests, online tracking of requests in progress, requesting renewals of materials borrowed through ILL, canceling requests, and responding to queries about their requests. All loan requests must now be submitted electronically; paper forms will no longer be accepted.

This service is available through the Library Gateway by choosing Library Services and then choosing Interlibrary Loan. The first time a patron uses the new web form, he will be asked to register by choosing a user name, a password, a preferred method of notification, and interlibrary loan processing unit (Olin, Mann, Vet, Law or Geneva). From then on, each time an item is requested, the user name and password will be the only two pieces of information the patron will need to submit. The information provided at registration can be changed by the patron at any time.

Many thanks to the ILLiad Implementation Committee, especially Julie Copenhagen, Adam Smith, and Nancy Dailey, for getting ILLiad implemented in a very short amount of time. Committee members represent the five interlibrary loan offices for Cornell University Library and include: Michael Friedman, Nancy Moore, Jeannie Samimy, Julie Copenhagen, Rick Lightbody, Nancy Dailey, Adam Smith, and Howard Raskin and Susan Currie, co-chairs.

If you have questions about ILLiad, please call the ILL processing unit for your library.

Olin	255-9564
Mann	255-7754
Vet	253-3508
Law	255-5750
Geneva	315-787-2214

Document Delivery of Annex Materials

You can now request desktop delivery of select material from the Library Annex. This document delivery service is available to anyone with a valid Cornell ID who requests journal articles or tables of contents from the Annex. Through this service, copies can be delivered directly to your desktop either by electronic document delivery or by traditional fax. Electronic document delivery is a convenient means by which you can receive digital copies of select Library Annex materials through the Web. The request form can be found on the Library Gateway by choosing Library Services and then choosing Annex Requests listed under Circulation.

Online Reserve Request Form

Faculty members can now e-mail requests for materials to be placed on reserve in Olin and Uris Libraries. The form can be found at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuaccess/reserverequest.html

Susan Currie, Head, Access Services Division

Cornell Lecture Recordings

A rich and unique resource, the Cornell Lecture Recordings is a collection of more than 5400 audio tapes of public speaking events held at Cornell from the 1970s to 1995. Housed in the Uris Library Media Center, the collection comprises lectures, panel discussions, debates, symposia, and readings of poetry and prose. Topics range from the origin of language, to U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, to the history of housework, to the Vikings. Speakers include renowned scholars, public figures, and creative artists such as Spike Lee, Eudora Welty, Henry Louis Gates, Carlos Fuentes, Geraldine Ferraro, Umberto Eco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Seamus Heaney, and Louis Farrakhan.

Accessible through a separate database until recently, records for this collection are now included in the Library Catalog. You can locate specific recordings by entering a speaker's name combined with the word "culectures" in a keyword search. For example, the search k=welty and culectures will return seven different recordings of Eudora Welty reading her work at Cornell. Lectures on particular topics can be identified by using keywords as well (e.g., k=foreign adj policy and culectures).

The CU Lecture Recordings are available to be checked out by anyone in the Cornell community with a valid ID. The lectures circulate for a two-week loan period and can be checked out in the Media Center at Uris Library. Barcodes are being added to the lectures so that in the very near future, library patrons will be able to check them out at the circulation desk at Uris Library. For more information on circulation and use policies, contact either Carmen Blankinship at 255-9567 or Boris Michev at 255-3414 in Uris Library.

Fred Muratori , Reference Librarian

LiveHelp

LiveHelp is a new, experimental online service that lets you ask questions and get answers, in real time, from the reference staff in Olin and Uris Libraries. It is available Monday through Friday, from 1-5 p.m. The URL for LiveHelp is: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/livehelp.html. Please try LiveHelp soon and fill out the online survey to give us feedback on this emerging reference service.

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