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Register today for OCLC meetings and events at PLA 2006

Going to the Public Library Association 11th National Conference March 21-25 in Boston, Massachusetts? Put OCLC on your schedule by registering to attend any of the 11 special sessions OCLC has planned. And make sure you visit OCLC booth 3101 to see OCLC eContent and digitization services, including NetLibrary eBooks and eAudiobooks and CONTENTdm, and the Open WorldCat program, which points Web searchers to resources owned by your library. To help plan your time, here is a complete list of OCLC events.

On-demand Internet content revenues to approach $9 billion by 2010

Consumer spending for Internet entertainment services to grow 260 percent in five years; global home network and broadband penetration to grow significantly during same time

U.S. consumer spending for online entertainment, including on-demand gaming, music and video services, will grow by 260 percent in the next five years, according to Digital Lifestyles: 2006 Outlook, a new study from Parks Associates. Driven by broadband usage and innovations in digital entertainment platforms and content services, revenues will grow from $2.4 billion in 2006 to nearly $9 billion in 2010.

Other forecasts in the report:

The number of worldwide consumer broadband subscribers will grow from 184 million in 2005 to more than 360 million in 2010.
The number of households worldwide using data networking equipment will grow from approximately 82 million in 2005 to more than 135 million in 2010.
Worldwide subscribers to IP multichannel video services (IPTV) will grow from approximately five million in 2005 to nearly 70 million in 2010.

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OCLC Members Council focuses on using technology to improve the cooperative and provide new services

Delegates discuss how WorldCat fits in their future

OCLC Members Council discussed the future of the integrated library system, how WorldCat might fit in that future, and how different models of library systems might better serve the needs of libraries and library users as we enter a Web 2.0 world.

Members Council met in Dublin, Ohio, February 12–14 in the second of three 2005/2006 meetings with the primary theme, “Building and Expanding the Collaborative.” Council voted to hold their February 2007 meeting in Canada in an effort to expand the experience of delegates who normally meet three times each year in Dublin.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Kibbutzim College
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
OCLC Symbol: ISKIB
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East & India

Tennessee Technological University
Location: Cookeville, Tennessee, USA
OCLC Symbol: TTUAJ
OCLC Network: SOLINET

Crown Point Community Library
Location: Crown Point, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: CPNTL
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

Membership and Contributions 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 64 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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