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WebJunction hits membership milestone

WebJunction.org continues to grow. Last month, registered members topped the 15,000 mark and the number of unique visitors surpassed 160,000. In addition, three new states—New Hampshire, Vermont and Arizona—joined WebJunction’s community partner program. Take a look at their sites: nh.webjunction.org, vt.webjunction.org and az.webjunction.org.

WebJunction is an online community where library staff meet to share ideas, solve problems, take online courses—and have fun. Visit the WebJunction Web site to learn more about this exciting new community.

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Amazon no longer the role model for e-commerce design

According to a recent issue of AlertBox, a biweekly e-column by software engineer and consultant Jakob Nielson, who has been called the “guru of Web usability” by the New York Times, Amazon is still the world’s best
e-commerce site, but many of its strengths are unique to its status and would not carry over to sites that emulate its design. What’s bad about Amazon.com?

Cluttered pages
Internet-wide search feature
Advertising on product pages
Lousy user interface for specialized product categories
Lack of integration with its international sites
Co-branding

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LITA publication features OCLC research initiatives

As part of the new book EScholarship:A LITA Guide, seven OCLC researchers offer observations on metadata management and knowledge organization in a changing research and learning landscape. They also provide thoughts on how libraries can move forward in this environment by contributing to the management of research and learning materials and by making their collections available in ways that facilitate greater use by faculty and students.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Lucius E. and Elsie C. Burch, Jr. Library
Location: Collierville, Tennessee, USA
OCLC Symbol: LEECB
OCLC Network: SOLINET

Damelin—Klerksdorp Campus
Location: Klerksdorp, South Africa
OCLC Symbol: ZAKLE
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

The Melville Society Archive
Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
OCLC Symbol: MSAMA
OCLC Network: NELINET

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 61 million bibliographic records and holdings information contributed by more than 8,600 libraries around the world. The Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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