OCLC has expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads to help improve Goodreads members’ experience of finding new titles to read through libraries. The agreement will also provide libraries with a way to reach this key group of dedicated readers through social media.

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nRelate and Harris Interactive teamed up to take a closer look at consumers’ online content discovery behavior. The results of the Behavior Shift: Getting Content in Front of Consumers study showed most Americans are gravitating toward an exploratory, contextual information discovery process. So where are they finding the online content? A vast majority of Americans (76%) are clicking on links to related stories they’re already reading. Next to search results, these related links, often located at the bottom of an article and leading to a similar one, are the preferred method of discovering information online.

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GOVERNANCE

OCLC Global Council discusses emerging technologies in libraries, governance, direction of the cooperative

The Council met November 5–7 in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss strategy and focus of the global library cooperative and delegates heard reports from OCLC members and staff on emerging technologies and how they are impacting libraries around the world. The Council also approved changes in the OCLC Code of Regulations and the Global Council bylaws of the cooperative. The meeting was webcast live, and the video is posted on the OCLC website.

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  • Barbara Lison, Director of the Bremen Public Library in Bremen, Germany, was been elected to the OCLC Board of Trustees.
  • Sandy Yee, Dean of the Wayne State University Libraries and Library and Information Science Program, was elected Chair of the Board.
  • Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor, University of Kansas, was elected Vice Chair of the Board.

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MEMBERSHIP

OCLC member libraries around the world:

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Dresden, Germany
OCLC symbol: DEUKD

Hochschule für Öffentliche Verwaltung und Finanzen Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg, Germany
OCLC symbol: DELGF

National Democratic Institute
Washington, D.C., USA
OCLC symbol: DCNDI

Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
OCLC symbol: XXWLA

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WORLDCAT UPDATE

Number of records

286,384,782


Number of holdings

1,918,293,010

Numbers are updated weekly and reflect only records contributed by libraries. Article-level metadata is not included.

 
 
 

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