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Pilot to test Open WorldCat benefits in Europe

OCLC PICA, the European library cooperative, is running a pilot initiative to expand the Open WorldCat program with wider coverage of European library collections. The first phase of the pilot will surface existing European holdings from WorldCat in search engine result lists, including the Dutch National Catalogue and the LinkUK database of public library holdings. The second phase will add holdings from libraries in Germany. In addition, as part of the pilot, the Open WorldCat site will be translated into non-English languages and functionality will be developed for European-specific search engines, such as uk.search.yahoo, www.google co.uk and uk.ask.com.

OCLC is integrating library content and services with Web search engines, Internet booksellers, online bibliographies, library portals and commercial publishers in the Open WorldCat Find in a Library program.

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Online search hits all-time high of 5.7 billion searches

Google continues lead with 48 percent share of searches

Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research, has reported that online search conducted across approximately 60 search engines in the U.S. rose 39 percent year-over-year in January 2006 from 4 billion searches to nearly 5.7 billion, the highest number of online searches to date.

“Web users are conducting more searches not because they can’t find what they’re looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people’s everyday lives,” said Ken Cassar, Chief Analyst, Nielsen//NetRatings.

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WebJunction E-Learning Advisory Committee formed to ensure current, future training and education needs of library staff are met

WebJunction, the online community dedicated to supporting public access computing technology and the management training needs of library staff, has named members of its E-Learning Advisory Committee that will provide hands-on guidance and feedback on WebJunction’s learning programs and services.

Committee members, who will meet three times each year, will be involved at a policy level focusing on WebJunction program and service design, online course offerings, just-in-time tools, and other similar topics.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

St. Mary Seminary
Location: Wickliffe, Ohio, USA
OCLC Symbol: SMSOH
OCLC Network: OHIONET

Orot Israel College
Location: Dn Harei Ephrain, Israel
OCLC Symbol: ILORO
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and India

Attica Public Library
Location: Attica, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: INATT
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

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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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