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Metadata from Indiana postcard collection harvested into WorldCat

CONTENTdm brings these unique images online and into WorldCat for the Indiana Historical Society

The Indiana Historical Society is the first organization to automatically add records from a digitized special collection to WorldCat. Metadata from the society’s Postcards of Indiana,The Jay Small Collection has been harvested, converted to MARC format, and batchloaded into WorldCat by OCLC and is now available to library users using the FirstSearch service. The harvested metadata contains links that connect searchers to the collection’s digital images.

Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, IHS, says the rationale behind the decision to register their collection for metadata harvesting by OCLC is “Access, access, access. We want researchers, wherever they are in the world, to find our materials and use them.”

OCLC is the exclusive distributor to libraries of CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software, an easy-to-use software solution that helps institutions organize a variety of digital materials, including photographs, maps and historic documents. Developed by the Center for Information Systems Optimization Laboratory and University Libraries at the University of Washington, CONTENTdm was licensed to DiMeMa Inc. (Digital Media Management) in early 2001 to provide support for the rapidly growing community of CONTENTdm users.

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New Web site hopes to transform museums, libraries and archives into dynamic learning places

Inspiring Learning for All, a pioneering new Web site produced by The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council of the U.K., is designed to help cultural heritage organizations improve service and measure their impact on people’s learning. It challenges these organizations to focus their programs and events on creating effective learning environments and opportunities and to build learning partnerships inside and outside of the cultural heritage community. And it provides an extensive range of interactive support materials, such as checklists, templates, reports, research and best practices, as well as a unique “Measure Learning Toolkit,” to help these organizations place learning at the heart of all activities.

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netLibrary features an eBook of the month to provide libraries and its users with free access to contemporary best sellers

netLibrary, together with McGraw-Hill Professional, is offering online access to the full text of the book Allies at War at no charge to participating libraries May 1-31.

Written by renowned Brookings Institution fellows Philip Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro, Allies at War examines the current state of the fragile American-European alliance. Dr. Gordon is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and former Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. Mr. Shapiro is a Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a former international policy analyst for the RAND Corporation. His areas of expertise include the domestic politics of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. Army and Air Force global strategic planning, and homeland security.

The eBook of the Month showcases new and noteworthy titles available from netLibrary and encourages library users to visit their eBook collection. Each month, netLibrary selects a new featured title and provides free, unlimited access through the authenticated homepages of more than 8,700 public, academic and special libraries.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Universidad Autónoma del Carmen
Location: Cd. del Carmen, Campeche, México
OCLC Symbol: MXCAR
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.
Location: Xalapa, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXIDC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Ecosur
Location: Tapachula, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXCFS
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Akureyri Public Library
Location: Akureyri, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISPUB
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Hafnarfjordur Public Library
Location: Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISHAF
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Central Alabama Community College
Location: Childsburg, Alabama, USA
OCLC Symbol: CACCC
OCLC Network: SOLINET

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Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 55 million records representing 922,323,600 holding locations as of May 1, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 135,771,401 interlibrary loan requests as of May 1, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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