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NetLibrary content available for downloading to Personal Digital Assistants at the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta Libraries is meeting the growing demands of library users who use handheld electronic devices by developing a PDA Zone and PDA-accessible collections. As part of that effort, the library purchased a site license for the NetLibrary Adobe Content Server, which provides offline reading of NetLibrary electronic books available in PDF format.

This feature enables library users to download eBooks to their PDAs (personal digital assistants), laptops or desktop computers. There are currently more than 200 titles available in the offline format, covering all disciplines including education, medicine, science, humanities and social sciences.

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Google book plan sparks French war of words

A report from Reuters says that France’s national library has raised a “war cry” over plans by Google to put books from some of the world’s great libraries on the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead to a domination of American ideas.

Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France’s national library and is a noted historian, says Google’s choice of works is likely to favor Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language. He wants the European Union to balance this with its own program and its own Internet search engines.

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Have you checked out WebJunction's online Learning Center lately?

There's lots of new content and new opportunities for enhancing your skills

Since it debuted in May 2004, WebJunction—an online community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take online courses and have fun—has offered more than 40 online courses via its Learning Center. Today, that number has more than doubled. WebJunction has expanded is offering to include online courses previously offered by the OCLC Institute, including MindLeaders courses, Business Skills Videos and the popular For Dummies series. Visit the site to see a listing of all courses.

WebJunction Learning Center

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Winnipeg Public Library
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
OCLC Symbol: CNWPU
OCLC Network: OCLC Canada

The Honourable Society of Middle Temple
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
OCLC Symbol: UKHSM
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Wayne Elementary School
Location: Wayne, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILLPHE
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Ministry of Oil Baghdad
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
OCLC Symbol: MEMOI
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and Northern Africa

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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