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NetLibrary reaches 100,000-title milestone

World’s premier eContent platform now offers the most titles in the industry

NetLibrary, a division of OCLC, and a leading platform for full-text digital content in libraries worldwide, has achieved a ground-breaking milestone in the eContent industry as the first platform to offer academic, public, special and school library users access to more than 100,000 full-text eBook and eAudiobook titles.

“Being the first to reach the 100,000-title milestone shows NetLibrary’s continued commitment to electronic content, and the breadth and depth of our collections,” said Richard Rosy, Vice President of Content Management, OCLC.

The 100,000th title, Growth and Empowerment, Making Development Happen, by Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier and F. Halsey Rogers, was published by The MIT Press (2005) and presents a new strategy for growing economies in the developing world.

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The latest Internet statistics for online newspapers, brands and advertisers

While print circulation continues to decline at the largest U.S. newspapers, newspaper Web sites grew 11 percent year-over-year to 39.3 million unique visitors in October 2005, reaching one out of four Internet users. NYTimes.com was the top U.S. site, with 11.4 million unique visitors. USATODAY.com and WashingtonPost.com were numbers two and three with 10.4 and 8.1 million unique visitors, respectively. Among online adults who read either a print or online newspaper, 22 percent shifted their readership from offline to online.
The top five brands ranked by unique visitors for October 2005 were Yahoo! (101,790,000), Microsoft (95,879,000), MSN (89,769,000), Google (83,350,000) and AOL (75,355,000).
The top five advertisers and their estimated spending for October 2005 were Vonage Holdings Corp. ($30,444,700), DeVry Inc. ($17,201,600), LowerMyBills.com, Inc. ($13,744,100), Dell Computer Corporation ($9,230,700) and Apollo Group, Inc. ($8,819,700).

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Amazon is new fulfillment partner in Open WorldCat program

Amazon.com has joined Baker & Taylor as a fulfillment partner within the Open WorldCat program to facilitate the online purchase of books identified through WorldCat. Web searchers who reach WorldCat from popular search engines or other Web resources may now use a book buying link to purchase books through Amazon.com, in addition to the initial pilot partner, Baker & Taylor.

This component of Open WorldCat not only connects Web searchers with the materials they need, it also delivers a financial benefit to all libraries that participate in the program. Each time a Web searcher purchases a book through Open WorldCat, a portion of the proceeds supports the ongoing development of Open WorldCat for the benefit of all participating libraries.

Web searchers reach the Open WorldCat interface from search results in Web search engines or popular Web resources. Users may link directly to Amazon.com from Find in a Library for some items. When a direct link is not available, users will have the option of linking to the Amazon.com site to search for similar items.

Online purchasing pilot

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Universidad Simón Bolívar
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
OCLC Symbol: USBBC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Fort Larned National Historic Site
Location: Larned, Kansas, USA
OCLC Symbol: FLNHS
OCLC Network: BCR

Lassen Community College
Location: Susanville, California, USA
OCLC Symbol: LCCCA
OCLC Network: OCLC Western Service Center

Wind River Tribal College
Location: Ethete, Wyoming, USA
OCLC Symbol: WYWRT
OCLC Network: BCR

Tennessee Department of Transportation
Location: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
OCLC Symbol: TNTDT
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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