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OCLC, Safe Sound Archive to work together to digitize and preserve audio collections

Access through Open WorldCat will enhance visibility and use

OCLC and Safe Sound Archive have signed an agreement to provide digitization services for libraries’ audio collections, including digital reformatting, archiving and improved access through Open WorldCat. The new partnership will provide a convenient, integrated digital audio archive solution through OCLC Content Conversion Services and Safe Sound Archive. The first project is a pilot for Columbia University to digitize 258 hours of interviews from the Notable New Yorkers collection.

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Study suggests that Open Access journals do not influence collection habits

Global Electronic Collection Trends in Academic Libraries: 2004, a study of 155 academic librarians worldwide by the Publishers Communications Group, reports these key findings:

Only 9 percent of responding libraries cancelled subscriptions when comparable content was available via Open Access; the majority of respondents supplemented their collections with links to peer-reviewed Open Access journals.
Most responding libraries catalog or index peer-reviewed Open Access publications.
The main factor influencing the collection of electronic resources is library policy, closely followed by faculty and student preferences.
84 percent of respondents reported cancellation of print resources when the content was available electronically.

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OCLC and ALISE announce 2005 Research Grant Award recipients

OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to:

Shawne Miksa, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of North Texas, for “A Survey of the Extent and Utilization of Cataloging Tools and Resources within Technical Services in the North Texas Public Libraries.”
Jun Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University, in collaboration with Hong Xu, Professor and Head of the East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh; for “The Mining of Cataloging Knowledge from Bibliographic Data for Automatic Subject Cataloging.”
Peiling Wang, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, for “A Dual Approach to Web Query Mining: Towards Conceptual Representations of Information Needs.”

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Institute of World Politics
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
OCLC Symbol: IWPDC
OCLC Network: CAPCON

Korea Institute of International Economic Policy
Location: Seoul, South Korea
OCLC Symbol: ASKII
OCLC Network: OCLC Asia Pacific

MINERVA Web Preservation Project, Library of Congress
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
OCLC Symbol: DLCMP
OCLC Network: FEDLINK

Ridge Circle Elementary School
Location: Streamwood, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILRDC
OCLC Network: ILLINET

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

Membership guidelines and protocols

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 57 million bibliographic records and holding information contributed by more than 8,500 libraries around the world. The new 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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