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NetLibrary, Recorded Books to offer Web-based
audio book program
NetLibrary, a division of OCLC and the leading provider of eBooks to
libraries worldwide, has teamed up with Recorded Books, LLC, the premier
provider of unabridged audio books to libraries, to create an innovative
new program 
for
delivering audio books to libraries through the Web.
The NetLibrary/Recorded Books program will launch in December 2004 with 500 titles, including works from notable authors who regularly appear among the top 15 on the New York Times’ Hardcover Best Seller List, such as Patricia Cornwell, Alexander McCall Smith, Carl Hiassen, Elizabeth Peters, Nevada Barr and Pat Conroy. Libraries can view demos of the program upon request.
Scientists frustrated with limited access
to full-text documents
In an online survey, the Science Advisory Board asked its members, “What
makes searching scientific and medical literature online frustrating?”
Nearly 80 percent of the 1,400 respondents stated that it was limited
access to full-text documents, which far exceeded other complaints of
broken hypertext links, copyright restrictions and inadequate search engines.
“Scientists perceive their ability to access scientific and medical
literature almost as an unalienable right of their profession,” observes
Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Director of The Science Advisory Board. The
Internet has reinforced this perception by increasing the speed and ease
by which these searches can be conducted.
New Registry of Digital Masters service available
This
new service is a joint venture between OCLC and the Digital Library Federation.
Its purpose is to provide a means to find digitized materials (or soon-to-be-digitized
materials) that have been digitized according to established standards
and best practices. The registry is a subset of WorldCat and is available
to library users via FirstSearch.
For guidelines on using the registry—including information on how to contribute registry records, a glossary, future enhancements and more—visit the Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines.
OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries
L. E. Fletcher Technical Community
College
Location: Houma, Louisiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: LEFTC
OCLC Network: SOLINET
John Hersey High School
Location: Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: JHHIL
OCLC Network: ILLINET
Prospect High School
Location: Mount Prospect, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: PHSIL
OCLC Network: ILLINET
WorldCat update
Every
12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which
contained more than 56 million records representing 942,818,730 holding
locations as of October 23, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library
fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported
139,729,444 interlibrary loan requests as of October 23, 2004. A library
user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.
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