Latest OCLC news releases:
OCLC Board of Trustees elects two new members
The OCLC Board of Trustees has elected two new members: 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 Corporation. The two new members replace board members whose terms have expired.
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OCLC makes OAIster records available through WorldCat.org to ensure long-term public access to digital resources
The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have successfully transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC to ensure continued public access to open-archive collections, and to expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.
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OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers to enhance title metadata for use in the supply chain
OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. The publishers' enhanced metadata is then 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, the Web destination for discovery of library resources.
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Membership news:
OCLC welcomes the following new member institutions
Antioch University Los Angeles
Location: Culver City, California, USA
OCLC Symbol: CANTI
Gosteli-Stiftung - Archiv
Location: Worblaufen, Switzerland
OCLC Symbol: CHGAR
Eawag-Empa
Location: Dübendorf, Switzerland
OCLC Symbol: CHEGP
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
OCLC Symbol: ATSMS
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe
Location: México City, México
OCLC Symbol: MXCSF
Liechtensteinische Landesbibliothek
Location: Vaduz, Liechtenstein
OCLC Symbol: LIBIB
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