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Geauga County Public Library, Chardon, Ohio, contributes 55 millionth record to WorldCat

Entered on April 22, the record was for Highwire Act Live in St. Louis 2003, a compact disc of 16 songs by the rock group Little Feat. The disc was released two days earlier by Hot Tomato Records. The 54 millionth record was input on January 9, 2004 by the Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio.

Geauga County Public Library WorldCat

New Internet tracking poll shows online shopping, online auctions and computer usage at their highest levels

The latest Internet tracking survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project recorded the highest readings ever on the number of Internet users who are e-shoppers (65%) and who participate in online auctions (23%), as well as the number of Americans who use computers (73%). It also identified the following facts on wireless connectivity: 17% of Internet users have logged on using a wireless device, with “Generation Y” members (ages 18-27) far and away the most likely to have used wireless devices (28%).

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FictionFinder prototype demonstrates power of FRBR
to simplify record retrieval

Available from the OCLC ResearchWorks Web page, FictionFinder shows how the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model can facilitate searching and browsing bibliographic records for fiction.

The prototype system of 2.5 million WorldCat records allows you to locate fiction titles for your reading pleasure and saves you time by grouping near-duplicate records together in a “work-level” display using a FRBR-based interface. Results lists are shorter and easier to navigate.

Elements that are useful in finding and selecting a work of fiction, such as summaries, genre terms and subject headings, are extracted from individual bibliographic records, filtered, indexed and displayed at the work level.

Records may be searched on title, author, fictitious characters, imaginary places, settings, fiction categories, summaries, subjects, literary forms, special forms and ISBN. They may also be browsed on most of these categories.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Capital Health Regional Library Service
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
OCLC Symbol: CNAEG
OCLC Network: OCLC Canada

Universidad de Valladolid
Location: Valladolid, Spain
OCLC Symbol: ESUDE
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Iceland Academy of the Arts
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISLIS
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Iceland University of Education
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISKEN
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

University of Akureyri
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISAKU
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Johnson & Wales University, Charlotte Library
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
OCLC Symbol: MAIN
OCLC Network: NELINET

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 55 million records representing 921,792,394 holding locations as of April 24, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 135,424,449 interlibrary loan requests as of April 24, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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