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New transportation libraries catalog enables users interested in transportation
topics to search subset
of WorldCat
OCLC Group Catalogs facilitate searching and resource sharing by region, subject
A
new library catalog, formed by bringing together resources from leading
transportation libraries, offers a single, subject-focused group of records
for finding information related to transportation.
The Transportation Libraries Catalog was created from catalog records and holdings information of 15 transportation libraries that are in WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of bibliographic information. The customized union catalog of bibliographic records is searchable through the OCLC FirstSearch service and provides a simple solution to a long-standing challenge faced by transportation libraries.
View news release
National Transportation Library Web site
Guest view of TransCat
More information on OCLC
services for groups
Breathless
in Seattle!
The city’s new Central Library is an architectural landmark
Nearly 26,000 people attended the grand opening of Seattle’s Central
Library on Sunday, May 23, 2004. The giant, 11-level steel and shimmering
glass structure not only pushes the definition of what a library looks
like, it also expands the way a library functions. New York Times
reporter Herbert Muschamp says, “In more than 30 years of writing
about architecture, this is the most exciting new building it has been
my honor to review.”
Go to Seattle Public Library Web site
Listen
to a report from NPR
Sign up for the OCLC Symposium at ALA Annual
Beyond the Horizon, Information Trends in Context, Friday, June 25, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Join Cindy Cunningham, Director of Cataloging, Corbis, and formerly of Amazon.com, and Dan Chudnov, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, for a spirited discussion of “where we go next” as an information community, based on practical issues raised by The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition.
Register online today for this free event.
OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
Centro de Investigación Científica
de Yucatán, A.C.
Location: Merida Yucatan, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXCIC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean
Minia University
Location: Minia, Egypt
OCLC Symbol: EGMIN
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and North Africa
University of Baghdad
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
OCLC Symbol: MEBAG
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and North Africa
WorldCat update
Every
12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which
contains more than 55 million records representing 924,900,141 holding
locations as of May 29, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills
an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,183,510
interlibrary loan requests as of May 29, 2004. A library user searches
WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
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