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OCLC launches new magazine, community Web site

NextSpace grew from the OCLC Newsletter and will analyze industry trends and technology developments, as well as feature news about OCLC. The goal is to help member libraries stay informed and make key decisions.

The new community page brings together in one area of the OCLC Web site activities that OCLC undertakes on behalf of, or alongside, the library community, such as standards development, advocacy advertising and member reports. The page also provides a forum for librarians to dialog and comment on OCLC initiatives and general industry issues.

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Generations online

The latest report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that Internet access is the norm for most Americans, up to age 70, and that about 90 percent of all Internet users send or receive email. Given the many other variations in Internet use among different age groups, it is notable that this basic communications tool is almost universally used.

Internet users ages 12 to 28 have embraced the online applications that enable communicative, creative and social uses. Teens and Generation Y (age 18-28) are significantly more likely than older users to send and receive instant messages, play online games, create blogs, download music and search for school information.

Internet users ages 29 to 69 are more likely to engage in online activities that require some capital: travel reservations and online banking.

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Toronto Public Library contributes 63 millionth record to WorldCat

Entered on January 18, the record was for the book Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum, by Baron Ludvig Holdberg. The 62 millionth record was added October 12 by the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, the Goettingen State and University Library in Goettingen, Germany.

Toronto Public Library

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Tate Library and Archive
Location: London, United Kingdom
OCLC Symbol: UKTTE
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Washington Research Library Consortium
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Symbol: WRLCQ
OCLC Network: OCLC CAPCON Service Center

Howe Military School
Location: Howe, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: EZVGB
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

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WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 63 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 9,000 libraries around the world. The Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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