MORE 'OCLC' POSTS
eBooks: "OCLC and Ingram to Offer New Option For Access to e-Books"
Libraries, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC and Ingram Content Group Inc. will soon offer a new service option that will provide library users short-term access to e-books not in their collection through WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad. The new service option, to launch in the coming months, expands access to library content available through WorldCat Resource […]
New Preprint: "Interlibrary Loan Requests for Locally Available Materials: WorldCat Local's Impact"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users
|The preprint is now posted on the College & Research Libraries web site. The article is scheduled for publication in the November, 2011 issue. “Interlibrary Loan Requests for Locally Available Materials: WorldCat Local’s Impact” by Megan Gaffney (U. of Delaware) Abstract: Several studies have researched the reasons and patterns for academic library users’ interlibrary loan […]
On the OCLC Digital Cooperative Blog Mike Teets writes that the OCLC Innovation Lab experiment that began in June, 2010 allowing users to search WorldCat directly from Twitter has ended. Users created their query and also included the #Ask4Stuff hashtag in their tweet. #Ask4Stuff will no longer be available beginning tomorrow (April 1, 2010). From […]
New from the OCLC Library/OCLC Research: The Global Library Statistics Web Page
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|Cool! Here’s a new resource about libraries that will very likely make a lot of people very happy! It’s brand new from OCLC! Make sure to pass this one along to colleagues. From a Post by Larry Olszewski on the OCLC Cooperative Blog: As Director of the OCLC Library, I get to see lots of […]
"WorldCat Local offers more content from leading publishers"
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), EBSCO, Gale, Libraries
|From an OCLC Announcement: Databases recently added to the WorldCat Local central index include: American Psychological Association: PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES Alternative Press Center: Alternative Press Index, Alternative Press Index Archive Content providers that will soon add databases to the WorldCat Local central index include: Accessible Archives Oxford University Press Taylor & Francis CABI OECD Sabinet […]