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No.16
ISSN: 1559-0011
August 2010

Contents

President's Report

The future of publishing

Fellowship experience broadens the family

WorldCat.org: Advanced citations

Moving our global cooperative forward

Expanding research opportunities for the cooperative

The next steps toward Web scale

Updates

Three new ways to experience WorldCat.org

WorldCat statistics

By the numbers


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No. 16
ISSN: 1559-0011
August 2010

Contents

Cover Story
The future of publishing

From newspapers to popular magazines to scholarly journals to e-books to print-on-demand “vending” machines, publishing is more complicated than it once was. What do the changing roles of consumers and creators mean for libraries?

 

 

Membership Update
Interview: Jennifer Younger, Chair, OCLC Global Council

Jennifer talks about the future of the cooperative from the perspective of the Global Council and the three Regional Councils.

 

Products and Services
The next steps toward Web scale

OCLC is moving its Web-scale Management Services from pilot phase to production with the release of acquisitions and circulation components to early adopters. And WorldCat Local, OCLC’s Web-scale discovery service, now tops 1,000 users.

 

Labs
Three new ways to experience WorldCat.org

Three new WorldCat.org applications help make more library data available to more people in more ways than ever.

 

Departments

President’s Report

YourSpace

Research

Updates

WorldCat statistics

By the numbers


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