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Libraries for the Future joins WebJunction Community Partner Program

If you’ve visited WebJunction lately, you may have noticed that the scope of the community continues to grow. A Web site for the latest WebJunction Community Partner—Libraries for the Future—recently opened its doors. The LFF’s EqualAccess Libraries program is using WebJunction’s technology to create a customized version of the site for posting specific content, creating online community and hosting online training for the libraries LFF supports.

View site WebJunction Community Partner Program

Here’s another example of a library’s economic power

Recognizing the impact Seattle’s new Central Library seemed to be having on the city’s economy, the Seattle Public Library and Seattle’s Office of Economic Development contracted with Berk & Associates to assess the economic benefits to Seattle. They found:

The library is responsible for $16 million in net new economic activity in its first full year of operation.
The foot traffic and cultural vitality the library brings enhances the marketability of downtown and nearby neighborhoods as residential and commercial markets.
The library also raises Seattle’s profile and attracts tourists, knowledge workers and high technology industries.

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Wear your WorldCat lapel pin!

As part of the celebration of the 1 billionth holding entering WorldCat, OCLC sent five pewter lapel pins of the WorldCat logo, as well as a “Thanks a Billion” poster, to all OCLC member libraries.

The pin is a reminder of your individual contributions to WorldCat, and for all those yet to come. You can order more pins from the online store at the OCLC Web site.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Yellowknife Public Library
Location: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
OCLC Symbol: CNYPL
OCLC Network: OCLC Canada

Milpark Business School
Location: Auckland Park, South Africa
OCLC Symbol: ZAMBS
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

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 1 billion holdings 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.

See the latest WorldCat record

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