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The Ohio State University and OCLC to study how people use electronic information resources
Researchers
at The Ohio State University and OCLC are conducting a new study to find
out how and why students and faculty members use electronic information
sources to do research and solve problems. The $1 million, collaborative
project is being partially funded with a $480,543 grant from the Institute
of Museum and Library Services. The remainder of the funding will come
from Ohio State and OCLC.
The
principal investigator for the project is Brenda Dervin, Professor of
Communication at Ohio State. Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Consulting
Research Scientist, and Chandra Prabha, OCLC Senior Research Scientist,
are serving as co-investigators. “We know a lot about who is using
these electronic resources, when they are using them and where,”
Dr. Dervin says. “But there is just a dabbling of research on the
hows and whys. We want to know how people are choosing their electronic
resources, why they are choosing some resources over others, and how they
are fitting them into their personal and professional lives.”
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Learn about the top technology issues facing libraries
At
each ALA Midwinter Meeting, a group of technology experts who are members
of the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) gathers to
identify and discuss the top technology issues facing today's libraries.
In January 2004, they identified eight issues: XML
and interoperability; Radio Frequency Identification; copyright;
metasearching; OPACs and user behavior; policies and technology; user
interface design; and security
and digital rights management. Background information on four of the
issues has been posted to the LITA
Web site.
The seven experts in attendance were: Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Officer, Vanderbilt University; Walt Crawford, Senior Analyst, Research Libraries Group; Thomas Dowling, Assistant Director of Library Systems, OhioLINK; Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information; Roy Tennant, Web Design and Services Manager, California Digital Library; Joan Frye Williams, Library and Information Technology Consultant; and Tom Wilson, Director of Information Technology, University of Maryland Libraries.
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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
La Universidad Autónoma de
Nuevo León—Biblioteca Universitaria Capilla Alfonsina
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXBUC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
La
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad de Derecho
y Criminología
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFDC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
La Universidad Autónoma
de Nuevo León—Facultad Filosofía y Letras
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFFL
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
La Universidad Autónoma
de Nuevo León—Centro de Apoyo y Servicios Académicos
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXCDA
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
Membership guidelines and protocols
WorldCat update
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12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which
contains more than 54 million records representing 914,333,515 holding
locations as of February 28, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library
fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported
133,726,153 interlibrary loan requests as of February 28, 2004. A library
user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
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