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Search California—discover the world!

Californians can now find items in libraries throughout the state and world thanks to the new, online California Libraries Catalog (CalCat) that allows customers to view state and worldwide library collections without leaving home. CalCat is a part of WorldCat, OCLC’s worldwide union catalog that lists more than 63 million items owned by libraries in the U.S. and 81 countries. CalCat was built using OCLC Group Services, which enables library groups to form union catalogs and provide cataloging, resource sharing and reference services through a locally customized interface. CalCat is managed and funded by the California State Library.

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In battle of portals, Yahoo! has early lead in mobile domain

6.7 percent of mobile subscribers access Yahoo! branded services compared with 4.4 percent for second-place AOL

M:Metrics, a mobile market authority, has found that Yahoo! is the most popular mobile content brand. During the quarter ended December 2005, 12.8 million U.S. mobile subscribers accessed Yahoo’s services, such as e-mail, search and news, in an average month—4 million more than second-place AOL. MSN and Google follow, with about 7 million subscribers accessing their mobile offerings each month during the fourth quarter.

M:Metrics surveys 12,000 to 14,000 U.S. mobile subscribers monthly to report on the consumption of mobile content and applications and benchmark the performance of carrier, device manufacturers, mobile content publishers and technology providers.

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NC LIVE now offers access to 1,300 eAudiobooks from NetLibrary

NC LIVE (North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education) has signed a three-year agreement to provide the nearly 200 libraries in the consortium with access to more than 1,300 eAudiobook titles from NetLibrary and Recorded Books, the world’s premier publisher of spoken word audio. Available titles include perennial best-sellers from authors such as Stephen King, Dan Brown, Patricia Cornwell and Alexander McCall Smith; easy-to-understand language lessons for beginners, intermediate level speakers and English as a Second Language students covering 39 languages; Newbery and Caldecott award winners for children and young adults; and timeless literary classics from writers such as James Joyce, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo and more.

NetLibrary is a division of OCLC and a leading platform for full-text digital content in libraries worldwide.

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NetLibrary eAudiobooks

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
OCLC Symbol: MAHDC
OCLC Network: NELINET

American Embassy
Location: New Delhi, India
OCLC Symbol: IPAAE
OCLC Network: OCLC Asia Pacific

Curriculum Resources Laboratory
Location: Iowa City, Iowa, USA
OCLC Symbol: CRLCE
OCLC Network: BCR

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 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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