WorldCat: Window to the world’s libraries
All Music Guide, Rovi add music metadata
 OCLC has beefed up more than 250,000 pop and
classical record entries in WorldCat, thanks to a new
partnership with All Music Guide and Rovi. Here’s a
sample of some of the new things you’ll find:
- additional
descriptions,
- genres and styles,
- release dates,
- tracks,
- AMG top track picks (for pop music),
- ratings and
reviews (for pop music), and
- cover art.
It means your users will now know more about
the music they’re looking at, with recommendations,
tracks and times, reviews and more.
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WorldCat.org adds links to library content on Amazon
A special buy-it button that connects consumers
to library-provided content on Amazon.com is now
available on WorldCat.org. The new button links to
public domain books from Cornell University and the
University of Michigan. The books are available on a print-on-demand basis.
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British Library adds 12 million records
 The British Library first began adding UKMARC
records to WorldCat in 1985. Since then, some 4.5
million records from the British Library have been
added to WorldCat. Now, not only has the number
of records tripled, but the quality and accuracy
of the records has been significantly enhanced.
Ongoing automated batchloads will further improve
British Library records in WorldCat.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library adds digitized materials
 More than 14,000 records that link directly to full-text,
digitized materials on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Web site are now a part of WorldCat. These
records are from 12 prestigious institutions and, prior
to digitization, were housed within each BHL institution,
existing in isolation, available only to those with physical
access to the collections. The BHL is a consortium of
major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries
and research institutions organized to digitize, serve and
preserve the legacy literature of of biodiversity. It is part of The Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort to assemble information on all living species known to science into one ever-expanding, trusted, Web-based resource.
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