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NetLibrary signs agreement to distribute titles from Penguin

NetLibrary, a leading provider of eBooks to libraries worldwide, has signed a distribution agreement with Penguin Group (USA), an affiliate of Penguin Group, the world’s second-largest English-language trade book publisher.

Upcoming NetLibrary releases include hundreds of Penguin best-selling frontlist and classic titles such as Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen; Angel of Death, by Jack Higgins; The Hanged Man’s Song, by John Sandford; and Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynn Truss.

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Blue Ribbon Panel to strategize NISO’s future

With a charter to evaluate the progress, challenges and opportunities of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 11 experts from industry, academia and the library community have accepted seats on NISO’s Blue Ribbon Panel. The panel will play a central role in a year-long strategic planning exercise, which NISO’s Board of Directors launched in May 2004. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information, will chair the panel, whose formal report will be open for public review and comment later this year. Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Vice President, Research and Chief Strategist, also will serve on the panel.

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Arabic materials now available through OCLC Language Sets

Three sets are currently available: Arabic Books for Children, Arabic Fiction Books for Adults and Arabic Mixed Books for Adults. For descriptions of the collections, go to the OCLC Web store.

Language Sets allow English-speaking librarians to build multilingual collections. Books are cataloged in full MARC format and arrive ready to shelve, with holdings already set in WorldCat.

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MLA and JISC join DCMI Affiliate Program

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) will be the United Kingdom’s official representative on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Directorate, presenting the views of all U.K. public sector institutions at an international level.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Singapore Polytechnic
Location: Singapore
OCLC Symbol: SISPL
OCLC Network: OCLC Asia Pacific

Wheeling High School
Location: Wheeling, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: WHSIL
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Germantown Community Library
Location: Germantown, Tennessee, USA
OCLC Symbol: GTCLB
OCLC Network: SOLINET

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 56 million records representing 936,553,705 holding locations as of September 18, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 138,633,250 interlibrary loan requests as of September 18, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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