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QuestionPoint fortifies libraries in the Internet Age says ONLINE magazine
In the May/June 2003 issue, columnist/librarian Mick O'Leary writes:
"QuestionPoint shows every likelihood of fulfilling its promise...Responses
are uniformly thorough, accurate, and demonstrate a lot of diligent, imaginative
reference work. It shows that the two most important foundations of QuestionPoint—the
skill and helpfulness of its reference librarians—are rock solid."
Developed by the Library of Congress and OCLC, QuestionPoint is a network
of reference librarians that serves users via the Web 24 hours a day,
seven days a week.
OCLC introduces Spanish and French FirstSearch Listservs
To accommodate those whose language preference is French or Spanish, OCLC has created two new Internet mailing lists for news about the OCLC FirstSearch service. Announcements about FirstSearch translated into French will be posted on FirstSearch-FR-L, and Spanish translations will be posted on FirstSearch-ES-L. To subscribe to FirstSearch-FR-L or FirstSearch-ES-L, complete the online OCLC Internet List Subscription Request form.
OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, UNAM
Location: Mexico, Districto Federal, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: UNAMN
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America and the Caribbean
Abu Dhabi Resource & Document Center
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
OCLC Symbol: TSABU
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA
More information about OCLC participating institutions
Web updates
Z39.50
access to the OCLC FirstSearch service
OCLC Internet List
subscription request
Getting
started with the ILL Policies Directory
OCLC Sessions
at ALA/CLA: Reference
WorldCat update
Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 52 million records representing 888,115,279 holding locations as of June 7, 2003. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 126,942,998 interlibrary loan requests as of June 7, 2003. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
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