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Learn what's new at OCLC by downloading the slides and text from the OCLC Update Breakfast at ALA in Toronto. Presented by Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, and George Needham, OCLC Vice President of Member Services, these slide shows give you the latest information on OCLC programs and services, including updates on e-books, virtual reference, digitization and WorldCat enhancements. |
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OCLC PICA purchases interlibrary loan system from LIBPAC
To enhance services to U.K. public libraries, OCLC PICA, the OCLC EuropeanLibrary
Cooperative, announces the acquisition of V3.Web, the ILL requesting and
management system previously provided by LIBPAC. Says Martin Harrison,
Managing Director of LIBPAC, "We sought a partner to safeguard the
future of V3 and are delighted that OCLC PICA will continue our innovative
development strategy, widen access and provide exciting new opportunities
for the V3 community. We have worked closely with OCLC on many major projects
for over 20 years and recognize their absolute commitment to the pursuit
of excellence."
Read the news release
Go to the OCLC PICA
Web site
Go to the LIBPAC Web site
Check out link to WorldCat from ProMotion's BookPage®
New links to WorldCat on FirstSearch are now in place from ProMotion's BookPage.com service. These links allow users to go directly from BookPage.com to WorldCat to check for library ownership information for any book in the BookPage review archive.
BookPage is a monthly book review publication for the book industry, publishers and libraries. The links appear automatically on the BookPage site for all English language books reviewed that are cataloged in WorldCat. The link to WorldCat on the BookPage review screen is labeled "Find it at a local library" and appears in a box titled "Buy or Borrow This Book!" which also includes links to booksellers and price information.
OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
Mount Allison University
Location: Saskville, Quebec, Canada
OCLC Symbol: MT4IT
OCLC Network: OCLC Canada
National Archives,
Clinton Presidential Project
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
OCLC Symbol: NACPP
OCLC Network: FEDLINK
More information about OCLC participating institutions
Web updates
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Cataloging and Metadata Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Cooperative Reference Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Digital Libraries Research Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Global Librarianship Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Preservation/Electronic Collections Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Resource Sharing Interest Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Government and Special Libraries Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Large Research Libraries II Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council Private Academic Libraries Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council State Academic Libraries I Group May 2003
Minutes of OCLC Members Council State Academic Libraries II Group May 2003
WorldCat update
Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 52 million records representing 889,911,625 holding locations as of July 12, 2003. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 127,716,652 interlibrary loan requests as of July 12, 2003. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
See the latest WorldCat record
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