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Baker & Taylor and OCLC announce cataloging partnership

New partnership will provide libraries with greater options and efficiencies

Baker & Taylor and OCLC have announced a partnership that will offer OCLC cataloging records to subscribers who receive books and audiovisual materials from the Baker & Taylor family of companies. As a result of this ground-breaking partnership, Baker & Taylor can offer a process to libraries that streamlines their acquisition efforts by providing OCLC cataloging and ensures inclusion in OCLC WorldCat, the world’s richest database of bibliographic information.

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Two-thirds of American adults go online; one-third do not

Broadband adoption is creating a new divide among Internet users

Sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the Internet, up from 63 percent one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online, and it is not always by choice. Certain groups continue to lag in Internet adoption.

26 percent of Americans age 65 and older go online, compared with 67 percent of those age 50-64, 80 percent of those age 30-49, and 84 percent of those age 18-29.
57 percent of African-Americans go online, compared with 70 percent of whites.
29 percent of those who have not graduated from high school have access, compared with 61 percent of high school graduates and 89 percent of college graduates.

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New group forms to analyze
their members’ collections

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries recently formed partnerships with the Triangle Research Libraries Network and the Florida Council of State University Libraries to use the OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis service. The 60 academic libraries participating in the new group can compare their library’s collection against more than 38 million volumes held in the group.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Damelin Braamfontein
Location: Guateng, South Africa
OCLC Symbol: ZABRA
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Waitakere Library & Information Services
Location: Waitakere, New Zealand
OCLC Symbol: MCKES
OCLC Network: OCLC Asia Pacific

Carolina Population Center Library
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
OCLC Symbol: SOCPC
OCLC Network: SOLINET

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 62 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 8,900 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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