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• panlibus: OCLC’s Karen Calhoun Talks with Talis

  
  Planet Cataloging — Authority: 142
  I caught up with Vice president of OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, Karen Calhoun, in the lobby of a hotel across the road from the iconic British Library building in London.  Karen was preparing for her presentation at the 2009 OCLC Tech Forum to be held in the Library conference centre. I took the opportunity ...
  17 hours ago

• Implementation Focus: OCLC/WorldCat

  
  Yahoo! User Interface Blog — Authority: 529
  Fiz Mohamed has worked for OCLC since 2004 where he’s a senior UI/UX (accessible) designer/developer for a number of high profile products and is responsible for a UI Cookbook/Library. A wealth of commercial freelance experience since 1993 has resulted in a wide range of technical and graphical skills. He lead the ...
  4 days ago

• Cataloging conversation at Library 2.0 Gang

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 112
  Dont miss the latest Library 2.0 Gang 11/09 podcast: The Cataloguing Services Landscape . Excellent discussion on a wide range of cataloging and metadata issues.
  1 week ago

• OCLC and the Associated Press — Two Sides of the Same Information Provider Coin?

  
  Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Authority: 400
  I’ve run across a striking similarity between the bibliographic utility business and the newswire business, particularly in the area of cooperatives. Two cooperatives — OCLC on the bibliographic utility side and the Associated Press on the newswire side — have the same pattern of activity: both are ...
  1 week ago

• CFP: OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives issue on open source ILS/OPAC implementations

  
  A Library Writer's Blog — Authority: 420
  CFP: OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives will be publishing a special issue on open source ILS/OPAC implementations. The editor is looking for articles that articulate the planning, development, testing, systems work, marketing, etc. related to the implementation of a replacement to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nominations open for John Ames Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award

  
  Beyond the Job — Authority: 130
  The American Library Association (ALA) is accepting nominations for the 2010 John Ames Humphry/ OCLC/Forest Press Award for International Librarianship. The award is given to a librarian or person who has made significant contributions to international librarianship. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate ...
  3 weeks ago

• OCLC to Offer Free OAIster-Only Database View in 2010 to Complement Integrated WorldCat Access

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 480
  The transfer of the OAIster database to OCLCs WorldCat is now complete, and OCLC will offer a free OAIster-only database view in 2010 to complement integrated WorldCat Access. Heres an excerpt from the press release : The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have successfully transitioned the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Webinar: RDA and OCLC

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 116
  On Oct. 30, Leslie attended a webinar hosted by OCLC, detailing OCLC’s preparations for the soon-to-be-released new cataloging rules, RDA (Resource Description and Access), which will succeed AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), the standard that has been in place for the last 30 or so years. A poll of webinar ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Library on a Phone

  
  Infotoday Blog — Authority: 132
  OCLC is studying how to lead people back to libraries, and one of the places to find many users is on mobile phones.  So they put the entire WorldCat catalog on a mobile platform.  OCLC has opened its mobile API to developers who have built access to WorldCat and other library  services.  By that simple [...]
  3 weeks ago

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