OCLC News

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:24:00 EST

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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ABES to add French Sudoc records to WorldCat

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:49:00 EDT

OCLC and ABES (l’Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Supérieur), in France, have signed an agreement to load 9 million records from Système Universitaire de documentation (Sudoc), the cataloguing system for French academic libraries managed by ABES, into WorldCat, the largest global online resource for finding information in libraries. As a result of this agreement, collections of 110 participating Sudoc institutions that represent over 1,000 libraries will be visible to searchers worldwide through WorldCat.org.

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OCLC Board of Trustees convenes Council to study and develop new WorldCat Record Use Policy

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:24:00 EDT

The OCLC Board of Trustees has convened a Record Use Policy Council, which will draw upon the fundamental values of the OCLC cooperative and engage with the global library community to develop the next generation of the WorldCat Record Use Policy. The intent is to recommend to the OCLC Board of Trustees a new policy that is aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy will replace the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records that was developed in 1987.

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OCLC announces agreements in Europe to extend coverage in WorldCat

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:00 EDT

OCLC today announced four new agreements have been signed with European national libraries and affiliated institutions which significantly increase the coverage of records in WorldCat and the visibility of libraries in WorldCat.org in the Europe and Middle East regions.

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OCLC names six librarians to participate in 2010 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:54:00 EDT

OCLC, along with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the American Theological Library Association, today named six librarians chosen to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2010.

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NetLibrary catalog reaches 200,000-title milestone

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:18:00 EDT

NetLibrary has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by being the first eContent platform to offer academic, public, special and school library users access to more than 200,000 eBook and eAudiobook titles.

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WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway helps libraries maximize Web visibility of digital collections via WorldCat

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:19:00 EDT

OCLC has released the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway, a new service that helps libraries and other institutions maximize the visibility of unique primary source materials, such as digital photos, newspapers, letters and diaries, through WorldCat on the Web.

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Library council named to advise OCLC in development of Web-scale management services

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:42:00 EDT

OCLC has named members of a Library Advisory Council that has been put in place to advise OCLC in developing the first Web-scale cooperative library management service.

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