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Libraries, archives and museums find more in common The global cooperative takes shape It all comes together in the WorldCat Registry Metasearch expands the reach of WorldCat Local Download this issue (3.3 MB pdf)
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Now on WorldCat.orgOAIster recordsThe University of Michigan and OCLC have transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC. OAIster records are now included in WorldCat.org search results, along with records from libraries worldwide that add their holdings to WorldCat. OCLC will release a freely accessible, discrete view of the OAIster records in January 2010 through a URL specific to OAIster. ScienceDirect articlesChanges have occurred since publication. See the product announcement for more information.
Records from PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirstThese two indexes contain papers from conferences, symposiums and expositions worldwide. Created from items received by The British Library Document Supply Centre, the databases offer 7.4 million published items in English, French, Spanish and Chinese. More covers, evals, summariesOCLC is partnering with Syndetic Solutions through June 2010 to offer trial access to evaluative content—cover art, reviews and summaries—in WorldCat Local. The trial will surface six new evaluative content elements within the WorldCat Local interface:
The content will help WorldCat Local users more easily determine which items in search results will fulfill their research needs. WorldCat reaches 150 million records
Two new trustees on OCLC Board
John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC consulting and former Vice President of Internet Technology at IBM, where he worked for 38 years. Starting in the early 1990s, Patrick dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. He was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past Chairman of the Global Internet Project, a member of the Internet Society, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Enriching ONIX records with library metadataOCLC’s new Metadata Services for Publishers enriches publishers’ ONIX title metadata using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to publishers for use in their systems. The enhanced metadata is made available early in the data creation process to libraries for use in selection, acquisition and technical services workflows. Information seekers also benefit from Web discovery of this metadata via WorldCat.org.
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Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor of the University
of Kansas, and John R. Patrick, President of Attitude
LLC and former Vice President of Internet Technology
at IBM, were elected at the November 2009 OCLC
Board of Trustees meeting. They replace Ralph
Frasier, Executive Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary (retired), The Huntington National Bank,
and Jane Ryland, President Emerita of CAUSE, both of
whose terms had expired.
