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netLibrary eBooks chosen by U.K. National Health Service
agency 
OCLC PICA announces that netLibrary, a division of OCLC, will provide
eBooks to the National Health Service (NHS) Purchasing and Supply Agency
as part of its effort to purchase electronic information resources for
NHS libraries. Laura Gillan, Buyer, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency,
says, “We give procurement support to NHS libraries by providing
access to new and innovative information solutions. The electronic books
available through netLibrary will enable access to a broad range of additional
resources.”
New protocols emerging to support and connect digital libraries
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As digital libraries and archives continue to evolve, new protocols are
emerging that enable users to search across multiple repositories and
to view and use works from different digital collections from a single
workstation. Read this interview in the OCLC Newsletter with Herbert
Van de Sompel, one of the founders and leaders of the Open Archives Initiative,
to learn about the new protocols and their importance to libraries.
More journals added to Electronic Collections Online
The OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online database continues to grow. Fifty-one new journals from 16 publishers were recently added, bringing the total number of titles available to 4,688.
OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
National Transportation Library
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
OCLC Symbol: NATTR
OCLC Network: FEDLINK
Barrick Elementary School
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
OCLC Symbol: BESIL
OCLC Network: OCLC Western Service Center
More information about OCLC participating institutions
Web updates
New
WebDewey classification tip: Faster Connection
Dewey
Decimal Classification New and Changed Entries September 2003
WorldCat update
Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 52 million records representing 895,501,092 holding locations as of September 6, 2003. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 128,903,262 interlibrary loan requests as of September 6, 2003. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
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