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OCLC Members Council elects Bob Seal, Victoria Johnson
to Board of Trustees, and Maggie Farrell as Vice President/President-elect of Members Council

Delegates discuss innovation, risk-taking and new models of service

OCLC Members Council elected two delegates to the OCLC Board of Trustees, passed a resolution to strengthen communication, and focused discussion on expanding access to information through a variety of creative solutions. Members Council, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, met May 23-25 in Dublin, Ohio.

It was the last of three meetings with the 2003/2004 theme, “Innovation, Risk-Taking and New Models of Service: Library Survival in the 21st Century.”

Bob Seal, University Librarian, Texas Christian University, and 2003/2004 OCLC Members Council President, and Victoria L. Johnson, Director of Libraries, Sunnyvale (California) Public Library, were elected by the Members Council to the OCLC Board of Trustees. Each will serve a six-year term on the board. Members Council elects six of the 15 board members.

Members Council also elected Maggie Farrell, Dean of Libraries, University of Wyoming, as Vice President/President-Elect of Members Council. She will join incoming President Charles Kratz, Dean of Libraries and Director of Information Resources Customer Service, Weinberg Memorial Library, University of Scranton, in leading the Members Council in the coming year.

Much of the May meeting was devoted to discussion about how to meet growing demands by library patrons for digital resources—and, more specifically—how to create and manage digital repositories.

View the complete report Members Council Web site

New report available:

Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments — Bridging the Gaps

The final version of the joint white paper written on behalf of the IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) on interoperability issues between library information environments and e-learning environments is now available. The primary purpose of the paper is to explore potential interactions between information environments and learning environments, with emphasis on work that needs to be done involving standards, architectural modeling or interfaces (as opposed to cultural, organizational or practice questions) in order to permit these two worlds to co-exist and co-evolve more productively.

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Coalition for Networked Information
IMS Global Learning Consortium

OCLC Canada provides custom cataloging services for Canadian universities

The University of Saskatchewan has contracted with OCLC Canada to provide ongoing custom cataloging and processing services for approximately 15,000-20,000 titles annually. This new contract was signed in the fall of 2003 for the cataloging of new books only.

The University of Manitoba has renewed their cataloging contract for library services with OCLC Canada for a four-year term, beginning April 1, 2004. The contract calls for the cataloging and processing of 25,000 items annually.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Reykjavik City Library
Location: Reykjavik, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISBOR
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Kopavogur Public Library
Location: Kopavogur, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISKOP
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

University of Mosul
Location: Mosul, Iraq
OCLC Symbol: MEMOS
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and North Africa

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 925,328,124 holding locations as of June 5, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,316,659 interlibrary loan requests as of June 5, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

See the latest WorldCat record

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OCLC Members Council elects Bob Seal, Victoria Johnson to Board of Trustees, and Maggie Farrell as Vice President/President-elect of Members Council