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St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, enters 137 millionth request into OCLC ILL service

Created on July 7, the request was for the article from the journal Law and Human Behavior, “Eyewitness Identification in Actual Criminal Cases: An Archival Analysis” and was filled July 9 by the Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. More than 7,000 libraries use the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service, which arranged 9.3 million loans in fiscal year 2002-2003. The 136 millionth request was produced May 20, 2004.

As the OCLC cooperative celebrates 25 years of resource sharing in 2004, OCLC is planning changes to interlibrary loan that will help your library improve efficiency and workflow. “New directions in sharing” is your source for the latest news as OCLC ILL functionality migrates to the FirstSearch reference service.

St. John Fisher College
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New study suggests that e-journal collections do indeed cost less to manage and maintain

For years, many observers forecast significant cost advantages of moving from print to electronic collections. Now, a new 66-page research report from the Council on Library and Information Resources documents the savings. Nonsubscription costs, such as staff time, computer workstations, binding costs, and capital and maintenance expenditures for space, are lower on a per-title basis for e-journals than for print journals. The per-title effect is more pronounced at smaller libraries, mainly because they license relatively large collections of electronic titles in comparison to the size of their print collections. However, the cost benefits of the electronic format exist across the board. One caveat: The potentially sizeable cost of long-term archiving of electronic journals was not factored into the life-cycle analysis because it remains unclear where this responsibility will fall.

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Strata Preservation digitizes Gaudier-Brzeska Collection for the University of Essex

It is the first on-site project outside of The Netherlands

A joint venture of OCLC and the National Library of the Netherlands, Strata Preservation N.V. has digitized the letters, notebooks and drawings of the Gaudier-Brzeska Collection at the University of Essex. The project was arranged by OCLC PICA and done on-site at the Albert Sloman Library on the University of Essex campus.

“The team from Strata, who visited us on-site to carry out the work, were highly efficient, setting up quickly and causing the minimum of disruption,” said Nigel Cochrane, Deputy Librarian, Albert Sloman Library. “The digital photography was also executed swiftly and with great professionalism. We are entirely satisfied with the excellence of the digital images produced by Strata. The clarity of these images is particularly impressive, especially when one considers that many of the letters and drawings in the collection provided particular challenges. We will undoubtedly look to OCLC PICA and Strata as partners in any future digitization projects.”

Announcement

OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Location: Rome, Italy
OCLC Symbol: ITISS
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Communication Centre for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
OCLC Symbol: ISSHH
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Minnesota State Community and Technical College Wadena
Location: Wadena, Minnesota, USA
OCLC Symbol: MNXPZ
OCLC Network: MINITEX

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WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 55 million records representing 929,999,520 holding locations as of July 17, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 137,229,178 interlibrary loan requests as of July 17, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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