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Get the latest information on OCLC services and programs at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio. A variety of special events are planned, including the OCLC Update Breakfast, an OCLC Symposium on rebranding the library, and sessions on collection analysis, eContent, digital projects, group services, virtual reference and more. Demonstrations at OCLC Booth #1454 will feature Open WorldCat, CONTENTdm, QuestionPoint, FirstSearch, OCLC Language Sets, cataloging with the Dewey Decimal Classification, NetLibrary eBooks and eAudiobooks, and WorldCat Resource Sharing and Collection Analysis.

A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in new electronic media products for very young children, including those as young as one month old. A driving force behind this new market is the advertising and package labeling that makes claims about the educational benefits of specific products. A Teacher in the Living Room? Educational Media for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers, a new report prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation, examines the educational claims about commercially available educational media products (videos and DVDs, computer software and video games) for very young children and what kind of research has been conducted to substantiate the educational claims.

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Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection now online

The Louisiana Digital Library has assembled a number of online collections that draw on the many archives and institutions from around the state. One such noteworthy collection is the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection, which has been assembled with the assistance of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Drawing on the rich musical and cultural heritage of traditional New Orleans jazz, the collection contains close to 700 photographs taken over the past nine decades.

The collection was created with tools available in CONTENTdm, a complete solution to help libraries, museums, libraries and other cultural heritage organizations store, manage and deliver digital collections to the Web.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

BIREME-Biblioteca Regional de Medicina
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
OCLC Symbol: LILAC
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America and the Caribbean

Liberty Christian School
Location: Anderson, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: INLCS
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center-Glynco Facility
Location: Glynco, Georgia, USA
OCLC Symbol: GAFLE
OCLC Network: FEDLINK

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 9,000 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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