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OCLC Members Council delegates share innovative ideas on how to address challenges in libraries worldwide

OCLC Members Council met Feb. 8-10 in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss global issues and explore innovative solutions to challenges faced by libraries and librarians worldwide.

Delegates unanimously passed two resolutions: to add a fourth delegate-at-large to the Members Council Executive Committee, and to add a clause to the Guidelines to the OCLC WorldCat Principles of Cooperation to discourage unauthorized use of OCLC-derived records.

Delegates also participated in discussions with international library leaders who offered insight into some of the challenges they face in their libraries.

Complete report Members Council Web site

For your reference files: A primer on standards

In this article from the February issue of Computers in Libraries, the purpose and the pros and cons of 12 of today's most important standards are defined and explained. These one-page primers can quickly get you up to speed on: ARK, DOI, METS, MODS, NCIP, OAI-PMH, ONIX, OpenURL, RDF, RSS, Shibboleth and SRW-SRU.

Primer on standards

Last chance for special PAIS Archive offer

Subscribe before March 1, 2004 and receive a discount on the one-time initial subscription price

PAIS Archive is a new database that chronicles global public policy and social issues from the early 20th century through the 1970s. It will be available through the OCLC FirstSearch service in mid-2004.

Using PAIS Archive, students, instructors and researchers can more easily locate thousands of credible books, articles, gray literature and more, covering diverse viewpoints on global public policy and social issues.

Previously available only in print format, PAIS Archive will contain the full content of the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976, providing online subject and bibliographic access to materials published during these dynamic years. It is an ideal companion reference database for PAIS International, the global public affairs database.

To take advantage of this limited-time offer and learn more about the PAIS Archive, please contact your OCLC Library Services representative or regional service provider, or visit the PAIS Archive database page.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Biblioteca Universitaria Raúl Rangel Frías
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXBUR
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad de Economía
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFEC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León— Facultad de Música
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFMU
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León— Facultad Contaduría Pública y Administración
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFCP
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

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 54 million records representing 912,908,093 holding locations as of February 21, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 133,488,156 interlibrary loan requests as of February 21, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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