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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.

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.

OCLC adds IEEE and full-text search to WorldCat Local

Full-text searching is now available in WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery-to-delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items worldwide. The new search functionality follows the addition of full-text content from IEEE to the WorldCat Local central index.

Austin Peay State University library creates digital collection of student newspapers

What was the first day of basketball practice like for the Lady Govs way back in the fall of 1930? According to the Nov. 26 edition of The All State, the student-run newspaper of Austin Peay Normal School, from that year, “Coach Jackson has started the old basketball grind with only a few of the 1929 squad back as candidates for their old positions on the team.”


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