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OCLC EMEA Regional Council Meeting 2012 registration date extended

The closing date for registrations for the EMEA Regional Council 2012 has been extended. Book your place now.

EMEA Regional Council Meeting streaming live

Anyone interested in viewing the proceedings on 28 and 29 February should register here.


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The OCLC Research Library Partnership

Ambitious. Dynamic. Engaging. Learn more about the OCLC Research Library Partnership—a global alliance of like-minded libraries, archives and museums that collaborate to shape new scholarly services and increase the efficiency of operational processes, supported by the full capacities of OCLC Research.

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Provocations. Explorations. Demonstrations. Check out the exciting new technologies, developments and prototypes in our research laboratory, OCLC ResearchWorks.

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WorldCat Local

Future delivery service

Mid-2012 begins a year-long migration period for WorldCat Resource Sharing users to the new delivery service featuring more interlibrary loan functions and simplified workflows, available via the WorldShare Management Services interface.

New RDA discussion paper available for review

As a part of preparations for the future implementation of RDA, OCLC staff have been discussing how RDA data and practices might be incorporated more fully into WorldCat.

The University of Groningen publishes special collections with CONTENTdm

Located in the Netherlands, the University of Groningen library has digitized a number of its older and special collections and then published them online using OCLC’s CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software.

Worldcat.org traffic partner writecite.com helps students save time on bibliographies

OCLC welcomes online citation site WriteCite.com to its growing list of WorldCat.org traffic partner sites.

CONTENTdm Featured Collections: February 2012

Organizations worldwide are using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to create thousands of outstanding digital collections and to provide easy access to their unique holdings.


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