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Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen contributes 62 millionth record to WorldCat

Entered on October 12, the record was for a Chinese encyclopedia, Yi wen lei ju. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, the Göttingen State and University Library, was the first German university library to become a governing member of OCLC in 2000.
The 61 millionth record was added on July 16 by the National Library of Education in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen

Web enjoying a year of robust growth

The Web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study

The World Wide Web is expanding more in 2005 than any other year to date, says an article from the BBC News Web site based on a new report from monitoring firm Netcraft. With 17 million sites added just since January, Netcraft estimates there are now 74.4 million Web addresses -- quite an increase from the approximately 19,000 addresses recorded 10 years ago. Netcraft analyst Rich Miller says this year's surge signals an uptick in the number of small enterprises, fueled by the availability of new tools and services that make it easy and cheap to launch a Web business. Growth has also come as a result of the blogging phenomenon, and from registrars making better use of unused domains by asking them to exploit the advertising systems operated by Google and Yahoo.

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Netcraft

WebJunction awarded Gates grant to extend Spanish Language Outreach program to all 50 states

The three-year, $2 million grant follows a successful 18-month pilot program, also funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to provide public library staff with skills and resources to reach out to Spanish speakers in their local communities.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

York County Libraries
Location: York, Pennsylvania, USA
OCLC Symbol: PYLCO
OCLC Network: PALINET

Tipton County Public Library
Location: Tipton, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: INTCP
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

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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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