RLUK and OCLC Expand Shared Collection Management and Resource Discovery Goals

From Today’s Announcement:

OCLC and Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of the largest research organisations in the UK and Ireland, today announced an expanded partnership that will help RLUK achieve key strategic objectives for shared collection management and resource discovery.
Building on existing OCLC cataloguing arrangements, the new agreement offers RLUK members the opportunity to load their bibliographic metadata into WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library holdings and services. This data will then be used to facilitate better understanding and visibility of these resources for both RLUK as a group, and for individual members of the consortium.
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Loading the bibliographic data of RLUK library collections into WorldCat will enable analysis and streamlined collection management across the group. “For many of our members this will allow them to free up space and time to concentrate on the many other priorities of research libraries, and also develop a more acute sense of individual collection strength and uniqueness amongst our group,” said John MacColl, RLUK Vice Chair.
In addition, OCLC’s partnerships with the world’s search engines will result in greater exposure, impact and access of these research resources online.

Read the Complete RLUK & OCLC Announcement

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