Ebooks: EBL Begins Providing Data to OCLC’s New Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) Program
From the Electronic Book Library (EBL) Blog:
OCLC is now supporting Demand-driven Acquisition (DDA) with their WorldCat Knowledge Base and EBL is the first provider supplying data to this service, with ebrary to follow soon.
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OCLC’s service enables you to:
- Set up automated feeds to your WorldCat knowledge base
- Maintain WorldCat holdings
- Receive discovery records
- Expose titles in WorldCat Local
- Manage ILL options
- Track purchases in Acquisitions
You can learn more about OCLC’s DDA Program Here (3 pages; PDF)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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