OCLC News

OCLC releases new CONTENTdm version

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:13:00 EST

With the new release, the CONTENTdm Project Client now supports auto updates, enabling users to get updates as quickly as they are available. It automatically checks for software updates in the background, so work is not interrupted. If updates are available, they are downloaded but not installed until the organization is ready.

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OCLC Board of Trustees elects two new members

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST

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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Issue 13 of NextSpace now available online

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:18:00 EST

Cover Story. The Ripple Effect: Extending the library's reach. Today's librarians are engaging information seekers wherever they are—at the beach, in the street, on the stage, on the Web—to extend their impact and set in motion growing waves of relevance and usage.

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Nominations sought for 2010 OCLC awards

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:14:00 EST

Part of OCLC's commitment to research and education includes furthering the advancement of librarianship. OCLC does this not only through OCLC research but also by financially supporting awards and scholarships. OCLC is seeking nominations for the following 2010 OCLC-sponsored awards. Deadlines are in bold; the link provides more information about the award and the nominating process.

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Save the date! OCLC Americas Regional Council to hold its first meeting at ALA Midwinter, January 15, 2010, 8:30 – 11:30 am, ET

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:04:00 EST

Plan now to join us for the first meeting of the OCLC Americas Regional Council, which will be held on Friday, January 15, 2010, 8:30 – 11:30 am (ET), in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

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OCLC makes OAIster records available through WorldCat.org to ensure long-term public access to digital resources

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:28:00 EDT

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

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:59:00 EDT

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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35 new publishers add more multilingual content to NetLibrary eBook and eAudiobook collections

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:49:00 EDT

OCLC's NetLibrary, the leading provider of eBooks and eAudiobooks to libraries worldwide, now offers more than 200,000 eBooks and over 13,000 eAudiobooks from more than 550 publishers in a variety of subject areas and disciplines.

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OCLC and South West Regional Library Service announce major collaboration using WorldCat Local in the United Kingdom

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:22:00 EDT

OCLC and the South West Regional Library Service (SWRLS) today announced a collaboration that will initially see seven public library authorities in the South West of England using WorldCat Local as their shared end user discovery service in 2010.

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OCLC announces partnership with WALDO (the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization)

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:39:00 EDT

OCLC and the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO) are pleased to announce a partnership to provide expanded electronic content offerings to OCLC member libraries in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York and Vermont.

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