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Montana State University–Bozeman enters 136 millionth request into OCLC ILL service

Created on May 20, the request was for the book, Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling and was filled by the University of Houston–Victoria. More than 7,000 libraries use the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service, which arranged 9.3 million loans in fiscal year 2002-2003. The 135 millionth request was produced April 9, 2004.

As the OCLC cooperative celebrates 25 years of resource sharing in 2004, OCLC is planning changes to interlibrary loan that will help your library improve efficiency and workflow. “New directions in sharing” is your source for the latest news as OCLC ILL functionality migrates to the FirstSearch reference service.

Montana State University–Bozeman
University of Houston–Victoria
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Why students prefer the Web to the library

A May 13 post to LISNews, a collaborative weblog devoted to current events and news in the world of library and information science, links to an article in the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune, which lists these reasons students don’t like using libraries:

Everything worth knowing is on the Internet.
The “Target mentality”: It’s like running into Target and getting it and going.
Libraries are boring.
Fear: “There's a lot of library anxiety out there. It takes getting used to.”

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IUPUI shares campus history in images with CONTENTdm

The IUPUI Image Collection, an online collection of over 4,200 digital images housed on the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Library Web site, shares historic images with students, faculty, staff and the surrounding community.

This collection of digital images visually represents IUPUI’s history and development as a teaching facility, an academic institution, a continually transforming campus and a group of ever-growing students, faculty and staff.

The processing of images began in 2001, and the collection went live with 500 images in November 2002. IUPUI continually adds university-produced images that may be of use to the university environment.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Universidad de Guadalajara-Biblioteca San Juan de los Lagos
Location: San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXSJL
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Universidad de Guadalajara-Biblioteca Lagos de Moreno
Location: Lagos de Moreno, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXBLM
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Centro de Estudios Cristobal Colon A.C.
Location: Veracruz, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXECC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

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 923,528,807 holding locations as of May 22, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,029,270 interlibrary loan requests as of May 22, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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