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• Cataloging conversation at Library 2.0 Gang

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 109
  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.
  4 days ago

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

  
  Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Authority: 99
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  A Library Writer's Blog — Authority: 468
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Beyond the Job — Authority: 126
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 505
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Webinar: RDA and OCLC

  
  Professional Development — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Library on a Phone

  
  Infotoday Blog — Authority: 131
  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 [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Neither fish nor fowl...

  
  Confessions of a Curator — Authority: 113
  I saw this on twitter, thanks to Merrilee and Mazarines: Jackie Dooley will be heading up a new survey of archives & special collections in academic & research libraries , that will follow up on the ARL Hidden Collections Survey from 1998. The update includes an effort to survey even more institutions this ...
  3 weeks ago

• News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, Academic Publishing: This is Open Access Week

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 111
  October 19 through 23 is… Photo credit – Courtesy of http://www.openaccessweek.org/ – All rights reserved – Copyright 2009 SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Consortium) is the organizer of Open Access Week .  Information about SPARC Europe is here . The concept of ...
  4 weeks ago

• ONIX to MARC and back again: OCLCs Metadata Services for Publishers

  
  Cataloging Futures — Authority: 109
  Interesting metadata news! OCLC is now offering a program to enrich publishers ONIX metadata , an XML metadata standard used by publishers. OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Catalogablog: OCLC is Enriching ONIX Metadata

  
  Planet Cataloging — Authority: 141
  OCLC now offers a service to enrich ONIX metadata for publishers . OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their ...
  4 weeks ago

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