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Abridged Dewey 14th Edition now available

The abridged edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system provides the level of detail needed to classify materials in libraries with collections of 20,000 or fewer titles

Published in a single print volume, the abridged DDC provides Dewey numbers that are compatible with the unabridged edition should a library’s collection expand and require deeper classification detail. Abridged Edition 14 is based on the recently released DDC 22 and reflects the many changes to the body of human knowledge that have occurred since Abridged Edition 13 was published in 1997. The content of Abridged Edition 14 has been available online in Abridged WebDewey since December 2003.

Abridged 14 contains many new numbers and topics. These range from new geographic provisions to provisions for topics in fields such as computer science, religion, sociology, law, medicine and health, and recreation. It also is the first DDC abridged edition to be produced in the context of the Web environment. Abridged WebDewey gives library access to an enhanced version of the Abridged 14 database.

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Where should the future of digital library research head?

The final report from the National Science Foundation's workshop on the future of digital library research has just been published and is now available online. The workshop brought together a group of educators, researchers, librarians and technologists to look at the future research agenda for digital libraries and related areas.

To maintain national expertise and achieve necessary gains in research and education, the report recommends that NSF should:

1) Provide $20 million per year for innovative and exploratory research to address challenges in the creation, collection, organization, use and long-term availability of digital resources of all sorts in a rapidly evolving global information infrastructure.

2) Provide $40 million per year for transformative change to infrastructure and practice, including:

Integrative deployment, enhancement and empirical evaluation of sustainable digital resources and services;

Periodic review by a multidisciplinary advisory panel of progress and priorities in light of evolving technological and societal conditions; and

Research on the organizational, social and policy implications of advancing information infrastructure.

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University of Nevada, Reno enters 134 millionth request into OCLC ILL service

Created on March 8, the 134 millionth request was for a journal article in West Virginia History, “Re-evaluating John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry.” It was filled by the University of Idaho on March 9.

The OCLC cooperative is celebrating 25 years of interlibrary loan in 2004. More than 7,000 libraries use the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service, which arranged 9.3 million loans in fiscal year 2002-2003. The 133 millionth request was produced January 5, 2004.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad de Ingenier í a Mecánica y Eléctrica
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFDI
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad de Ciencias Químicas
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFCQ
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad Ciencias Físico-Matem á ticas
Location: San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFCF
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

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WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 54 million records representing 914,990,520 holding locations as of March 13, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 134,187,151 interlibrary loan requests as of March 13, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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