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Records from National Library of Chile now available
in WorldCat

As a result of a January 2003 agreement between OCLC and the Chilean Directorate of Libraries, Archives and Museums (DIBAM), WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, is helping enhance access to the rich cultural heritage of Chile. Approximately 410,000 holdings from the National Library of Chile—including 230,000 original records—have been added to WorldCat and are now available to librarians, students and researchers worldwide.

“The National Library of Chile, one of the oldest in Latin America, has focused its efforts over the past few years on increasing access to information and in broadening access to Chile's historic collections,” says Clara Budnik, director of DIBAM. “The agreement with OCLC signifies to us a new avenue in our goal of broadening and strengthening our information networks.”

National Library of Chile
Background

Digital preservation program launches research grants initiative

Library of Congress partners with National Science Foundation to fund advanced research into preservation of digital materials

The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (NDIIPP) is partnering with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the first research grants program to specifically address the preservation of digital materials. NSF will administer the program, which will fund cutting-edge research to support the long-term management of digital information.This effort is part of the Library’s collaborative program to implement a national digital preservation strategy. The research program announcement coincides with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Library of Congress and NSF to collaborate over the next decade in a broad set of research activities related to digital libraries and digital archives.

Read the news release

Report from May OCLC Members Council meeting includes webcast

Presentations and minutes from both the general session as well as the library group and interest group discussions are now available on the Members Council area of the OCLC Web site.

In addition, a webcast of the meeting, including the reports from Members Council President Bob Seal and OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Jordan, is available for viewing.

OCLC Members Council meeting report

OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Bracken Health Sciences Library, Queen’s University
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
OCLC Symbol: CNBRL
OCLC Network: OCLC Canada

Billings Public Schools
Location: Billings, Montana, USA
OCLC Symbol: BPSLC
OCLC Network: OCLC Western Service Center

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 927,972,598 holding locations as of June 26, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 136,785,582 interlibrary loan requests as of June 26, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

See the latest WorldCat record

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