OCLC News

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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View the first issue of OCLC Cooperative eNews

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:18:00 EDT

Get the latest in membership news, views, events, support and training.

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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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More ways to make the cooperative yours

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:19:00 EDT

Your new Member Services Team will help you make sure you are getting the most out of your OCLC membership.

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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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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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