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Research: Leveraging the power of WorldCat Tips & Tricks: Raise your online visibility Labs: Get your library on the go NetLibrary launches new media center Spotlight: From linking to thinking Download this issue (2.08 MB pdf)
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eBook collections ready for readers on the move
These mobile collections come with everything you need to get started, including the Sony Reader Digital Book, a collection of quality titles from leading publishers and all required licenses.
HathiTrust, OCLC to enhance discovery of digital collectionsOCLC and HathiTrust, a group of 25 research libraries in the United States, will work together to increase visibility of and access to the 2.5 million items in HathiTrust’s shared digital repository. The two organizations plan to create WorldCat records describing the content and linking to the collections via WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. They will launch a project in the coming months to develop specifications and determine next steps.
Librarians to build credible search engineMacArthur Foundation-funded project intended to increase quality of Web search results
Reference Extract is envisioned as a Web search experience similar to those provided by the world’s most popular search engines. However, unlike other search engines, Reference Extract will be built for maximum credibility of search results by relying on the expertise of librarians. Users will enter search terms and receive results weighted toward sites most often used by librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the University of Washington, the State Library of Maryland and more than 2,000 other libraries worldwide.
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New partnership will maximize resource sharingOCLC and Atlas Systems, creator of ILLiad and Odyssey resource sharing management software, have signed an agreement that enables OCLC to support ILLiad and Odyssey and integrate the software more fully into future OCLC delivery services. ILLiad and its document delivery component, Odyssey, provide a faster, more functional alternative to traditional interlibrary loan workflow. The software improves interlibrary loan functions by consolidating all borrowing, lending and tracking capabilities into a single, customizable interface. ILLiad also smoothly integrates with a library’s core services, such as WorldCat Resource Sharing, providing the user with access to the world’s largest collection of shared resources. Atlas Systems will continue development, training and installation support of ILLiad software under the new agreement. “This new agreement ensures tighter integration of ILLiad and Odyssey into current and future resource sharing management services offered by OCLC,” said Jason Glover, President, Atlas Systems, Inc. “This will benefit the ILLiad user community for years to come.” More than 1,000 libraries currently use ILLiad software for interlibrary loan management. OCLC has been the exclusive distributor of ILLiad software since 2000.
WorldCat Local heads to CanadaNovanet and the University of New Brunswick will implement WorldCat Local, the service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to use WorldCat.org as a local discovery and delivery service. They are the first library systems outside the United States to use WorldCat Local, and they join a growing number of U.S. libraries using WorldCat Local to help users more easily find and get items in library collections.
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