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John Brown University enters 140 millionth request into OCLC ILL service

Created on November 1, the request was for the article, “The literary impact of the American Revolution” from the journal Partisan Review and was filled November 3 by Jamestown College. The 139 millionth ILL request was created on September 30.

As the OCLC cooperative celebrates 25 years of resource sharing in 2004, OCLC is planning changes to interlibrary loan that will help libraries improve efficiency and workflow. “New directions in sharing” provides a source for the latest news as OCLC ILL functionality migrates to WorldCat Resource Sharing.

John Brown University Library
Jamestown College Libraries

IE lost ground to open-source browsers between June and October

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is still the overwhelming market leader, but the percentage of Americans using open-source alternatives Mozilla and Firefox inched up to 6 percent in October from 3.5 percent in June, according to an online study. Apple’s Safari and the Opera browsers combined were employed by just a little over 1 percent of users.

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OCLC Members Council explores social landscape of infosphere

Delegates discuss online gaming,
e-learning and extension of library services worldwide

OCLC Members Council met October 24-26 in Dublin, Ohio, to explore the social landscape of the information world. Delegates discussed implications of online gaming, e-learning and extending services to more libraries in more countries worldwide as part of its overall theme of “Moving Libraries Beyond Their Comfort Zones.”

It was the first of three meetings for the 2004/2005 Members Council that will consider questions and findings from The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition, a report produced for the OCLC worldwide membership to examine significant issues and trends impacting OCLC, libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations, now and in the future.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

Minnesota State Community and Technical College, Moorhead Campus
Location: Moorhead, Minnesota, USA
OCLC Symbol: MNXPA
OCLC Network: MINITEX

Fort McCoy Post Library
Location: Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, USA
OCLC Symbol: FMCPL
OCLC Network: FEDLINK

Centennial Elementary School
Location: Bartlett, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILCEE
OCLC Network: ILLINET

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WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contained more than 56 million records representing 944,022,672 holding locations as of November 6, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 140,174,314 interlibrary loan requests as of November 6, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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