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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México grants OCLC exclusive right to distribute CLASE and PERIÓDICA databases online through FirstSearch service

The CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) and PERIÓDICA (Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias) databases offer information from articles, essays, book reviews, technical reports and interviews published in journals edited in 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

OCLC will make these databases available as the combined CLASE/PERIÓDICA database to subscribers of the OCLC FirstSearch Base Package. The database will expand OCLC's offerings in Spanish and Portuguese language materials.

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Western Illinois University enters 130 millionth request into the OCLC ILL service

Created on October 13, the request was for the video Keep the Change and originated in the OCLC FirstSearch service. Southwest Public Libraries, Grove City, Ohio, filled the request October 18. More than 7,000 libraries use the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service, which began operation in 1979. The service arranged 9.3 million loans in fiscal year 2002-2003.

Western Illinois University Libraries

Microsoft Press frontlist titles
to be distributed by netLibrary

netLibrary, a division of OCLC and the leading provider of eBooks to the library market, has announced an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to distribute the latest Microsoft Press titles as eBooks. Over the next three months, netLibrary will release more than 270 frontlist Microsoft titles, ranging from self-paced tutorials for first-time computer users to advanced technical references and programming guides for computer professionals.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
OCLC Symbol: ZANEC
OCLC Network: OCLC PICA

Albany Technical College
Location: Albany, Georgia, USA
OCLC Symbol: A1B
OCLC Network: SOLINET

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WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 53 million records representing 899,100,876 holding locations as of October 18, 2003. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 130,205,006 interlibrary loan requests as of October 18, 2003. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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