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Our thoughts on rights ownership in both the current market and future digital one are well documented. For an industry that is all about rights and content it is amazing that there is no authoritative rights database and clearing centre where anyone can establish who owns what.

The funny thing about memes is you can’t force them. I mentioned this particular issue on Twitter a little bit ago but I find WorldCat’s Meme Request [update: link suddenly broken, see comments for text. another update: the post is now back. Huh.] post to be a little sketchy-seeming.

Nice for members of OCLC, WorldCat Search API (Web service).The WorldCat Search API allows your application to search the WorldCat catalog—which indexes the collections of thousands of member libraries around the world—and retrieve:lists of bibliographic records, and individual records, for library-held

In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remember the bulk of the presentation was in the screencast tours of the functionality of 10 OPAC enhancement tools.

Dear OCLC, I’m sure you do this for some very important reason, but spending $16 to express mail me a copy of a report that I didn’t ask for (though it does look quite interesting) seems wasteful. I go to the post office once a week and all express mail does is makes my postmistress agitated.

At this year's American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, Calif., one theme emerged in talk after talk: librarians and the readers they serve demand more flexibility, transparency and openness in publishers' offerings. This affects not just digital-only reference works, but the book acquisition via library catalogs and standalone ebooks.

The Summer Solstice is upon us this weekend. The longest day of the year! Hope you have a fun weekend planned or already beginning, if you're across the pond. We're coming into prime strawberry season here in New Hampshire. Finally! So in honor of summertime and reading everywhere, we designed a few WorldCat bookmarks.

For the last 3 weeks I’ve been working on a widget for Wordpress which allows you to send a particular search to WorldCat, return the results and display them in the sidebar in Wordpress. The results are mashed-up with data from Amazon, the GoogleBook API, and LibraryThing.

I originally planned for this summer to be a quiet one without any travel after early June. I wanted to have some time to recover and also not be stressed out the way I was last summer with too many commitments (professional and personal) and a web redesign I was trying to push to get done.

All About Cat and Kitten Origin and the History of Cats Curious, to know the origin of the word cat, then here is a brief history, which will help people to understand as how the word ‘cat’ originated. The English word cat was not into usage until 300 AD.