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Liz Bishoff named Vice President, OCLC Digital Collection and Preservation Services

In her new position, Ms. Bishoff will help build collaborative initiatives among libraries, museums, historical societies and archives through digital collection and preservation services. Her appointment is effective January 8, 2004.

For the past five years, Ms. Bishoff has been Executive Director of the Colorado Digitization Program, a nonprofit organization that was awarded IMLS and LSTA grants to digitize the cultural heritage of Colorado. As director, she led the development of a strategic plan for the digitization of valuable collections from cultural heritage organizations in the state.

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Colorado Digitization Program

See you at ALA Midwinter in San Diego, January 9-14!

Before you leave for San Diego, put OCLC on your conference schedule. OCLC will host more than 30 special events and meetings. And stop by booth #1431 to see what's new, ask questions and preview the latest service enhancements.

Among the special sessions planned are the OCLC Update Breakfast, an OCLC symposium on rethinking reference, an e-learning and libraries meeting, and a presentation on The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition. Demonstrations at the booth will feature Open WorldCat, FirstSearch, QuestionPoint, netLibrary eBooks, the new Connexion client, and Digital Collection and Preservation Services.

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ALA Midwinter Web site

Mark your calendars! DC-2004 scheduled for October 11-14 in Shanghai

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) will hold its annual conference at the Shanghai Library, the largest public library in China and a pioneer in advancing the development and use of metadata. The 2004 meeting will focus on metadata research and applications.

DCMI promotes the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and develops specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.

DCMI maintains the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, a set of 15 descriptors developed over the past nine years through a series of invitational workshops that gather experts from the library world, the networking and digital library research communities, text markup experts and a variety of content specialists. Adopted by seven national governments and translated into more than 25 languages, Dublin Core was developed for use on the Web and in other information networks across a wide variety of subject areas, languages and economic sectors. It has been approved by the International Standards Organization as an international metadata standard.

DC-2004: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications is sponsored in partnership with the Shanghai Library.

Announcement
DCMI Web Site
DCMI press release

OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Location: Madrid, Spain
OCLC Symbol: ESPDM
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Location: New York, New York, USA
OCLC Symbol: N8H
OCLC Network: Nylink

Institute of the American Musical
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
OCLC Symbol: IOTAM
OCLC Network: OCLC Western

Sheridan Elementary School
Location: Sheridan, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILSGS
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Serena Elementary School Library
Location: Serena, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILSER
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Harding Grade School
Location: Earlville, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILHGS
OCLC Network: ILLINET

More information about OCLC participating institutions

WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 53 million records representing 908,871,195 holding locations as of January 3, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 131,998,715 interlibrary loan requests as of January 3, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

See the latest WorldCat record

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