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Reformed Theological Seminary Library contributes 59 millionth record to WorldCat

Entered on April 15, the record was for the dissertation, Case Studies of Policy and Vision Implementation by the Executive Pastor, by David R. Fletcher. The 58 millionth record was input on March 3, 2005 by the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Reformed Theological Seminary Library

Study: Consumer spending on online content up 14 percent last year

Consumer spending on online content such as music, dating sites and business and investment information grew 14 percent last year to $1.8 billion, an organization of online publishers reports.

The Online Publishers Association, working with comScore Networks, a group that studies consumer behavior online, said in its report that the biggest gain came in spending on entertainment, which jumped 90 percent over a year ago to $413.5 million, driven mainly by greater purchases of music. Spending on dating sites remained the top category, however, growing 4.4 percent in 2004 to $469.5 million last year. Spending on business and investment fell 6.3 percent to $312.9 million, the group reported.

Other big gainers in online spending were games, up 21.8 percent to $88.8 million, and sports, up 38 percent to $52.8 million.

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Link to Biblio.com now available on OCLC FirstSearch Service

OCLC has successfully implemented links to Biblio.com, one of the world’s largest suppliers of used, rare and out-of-print books, from the WorldCat database on the OCLC FirstSearch service.

When libraries enable the link from the FirstSearch administrative module, WorldCat users will be able to link from the detailed record of a book in WorldCat to the Biblio.com Web site to purchase the item.

Additionally, when a book is not available on Biblio.com, customers will be connected to library holdings in WorldCat through the Open WorldCat program, which makes records of library-owned materials in WorldCat available to Web searchers.

Biblio.com joins booksellers Abebooks.com, Alibris, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and Barnes & Noble.com in partnering with OCLC to provide this service to libraries and their users.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

International Human Rights Law Institute
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: IHRLI

Altamont High School
Location: Altamont, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILALT
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Country Meadows Elementary School
Location: Long Grove, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILCME
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Medical Book House
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
OCLC Symbol: MEMED
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and Northern Africa

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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 59 million bibliographic records and holdings 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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