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World’s largest library database reaches billionth milestone
Worthington (Ohio) Libraries contributes historic holding in WorldCat
WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials, now contains information about where to find 1 billion books, journals, theses and dissertations, musical scores, computer files, CDs, DVDs and other items in thousands of libraries worldwide.
At 2:21:34 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, Aug. 11, Anne Slane, a cataloger at Worthington Libraries for 23 years, entered the 1 billionth holding in WorldCat for the book, The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the '60s TV Pop Sensation. By entering this holding information to the WorldCat database, Worthington Libraries shows that it owns the book so that librarians, researchers, students and other interested readers worldwide know where to find what they’re looking for in a library.
One in 10 Weblog readers personalizes content
with RSS feeds
Blog sites grow 31 percent since January 2005 to capture nearly 20 percent of active Internet users in July 2005
Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 11 percent of Weblog readers, blog site visitors who claim to read blogs regularly or occasionally, use RSS to sort through the increasing number of blogs available. According to Nielsen//NetRatings’ “Understanding the Blogosphere” survey, nearly 5 percent of blog readers use feed aggregation software and more than 6 percent use a feed aggregating Web site to monitor RSS feeds from blogs.
In addition, the top 50 blogging and blog-related sites grew 31 percent to 29.3 million unique visitors during July 2005 as compared to the beginning of this year, comprising nearly 20 percent of active Internet users. Leading the way, MSN Spaces ranked No. 1 in year-to-date unique audience growth with a 947 percent increase by attracting nearly 3.3 million visitors in July, compared to more than 300,000 in January. Fark.com and Blogger ranked No. 2 and 3, with 63 percent and 45 percent unique audience growth, respectively.
International program brings library technology, skills to Iraq
To help repair the damage and neglect to the country’s libraries and information technology services,
a collaborative project between OCLC and the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law recently brought together 12 Iraqi librarians for a training workshop on cataloging standards and technology in Amman, Jordan.
The project, “Raising the Bar: Legal Education Reform in Iraq,” promotes democratic progress and economic recovery in Iraq through legal reform and educational reconstruction.
OCLC welcomes these new member libraries
Royal Institute of Technology Mathematics Library
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
OCLC Symbol: SEMAT
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA
Jerling Junior High School
Location:
Orland Park, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILJJH
OCLC Network: ILLINET
Damelin—Randburg Campus
Location:
Guateng, South Africa
OCLC Symbol:
ZARAN
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA
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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