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The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition, a report to the OCLC Membership, identifies issues and trends that are impacting the global library community and the OCLC Cooperative

The Scan provides a high-level view of the information landscape, intended both to inform and stimulate discussion about future strategic directions. It includes information gleaned from more than 90 interviews with knowledge experts, a review of 250 articles and papers and extensive global research. The complete report is available electronically in an easily navigable HTML format on the OCLC Web site. The electronic version allows users to print selected sections in PDF format. Print copies are available at a nominal charge of $15 to cover the cost of printing, postage, and distribution. Print copies may be ordered via the OCLC Web site.

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Columbus Metropolitan Library contributes the 54 millionth record to WorldCat

Entered on January 9, the record was for The End of All Things to Come, a 2003 publication of 12 musical scores for guitar and voice that contains the rock songs from the musical group Mudvayne's second album.

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OCLC and ALISE announce 2004 Research Grant Award recipients

OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Corinne Jorgensen, Florida State University, Feili Tu and Nancy Zimmerman, University of South Carolina and Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan.

Jorgensen is Associate Professor at Florida State's School of Information Studies. Her project title is "Developing A Thesaurus For Indexing Images Across Diverse Domains."

Feili Tu is Assistant Professor and Nancy Zimmerman is Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at South Carolina. Their project is "Consumer Health Information Services in American Public Libraries: An Assessment of Current Status and Educational Needs."

Elizabeth Yakel, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, will study "Academic Reference Librarians and Extending Access to Primary Sources."

Recipients of the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grants were recognized at an awards reception January 8 during the ALISE 2004 Annual Conference in San Diego, California. The OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Research Grants Program awards grants of up to $15,000 to foster research by faculty in schools of library and information science.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco
Location: Villahermosa Tabasco, México
OCLC Symbol: MXTAB
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Turtle Lake Public Library
Location: Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, USA
OCLC Symbol: TLPMT
OCLC Network: Independent

Rochester Middle School
Location: Rochester, Washington, USA
OCLC Symbol: RMSJL
OCLC Network: Independent

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
OCLC Symbol: CDCAT
OCLC Network: FEDLINK

Principal Financial Group
Location: Des Moines, Iowa, USA
OCLC Symbol: PRINC
OCLC Network: BCR

Fayetteville Public Library
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
OCLC Symbol: FAYTV
OCLC Network: Amigos

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WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 54 million records representing 909,340,362 holding locations as of January 10, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 132,184,624 interlibrary loan requests as of January 10, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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