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Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.   |
Information Today
March 18, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult ProQuest plans to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change. |
Information Today
August 2009
Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers. |
Information Today
September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
Information Today
September 6, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest LexisNexis and Biz360 partner on reputation monitoring solution... ProQuest to digitize small town newspaper archives... Swets partners with Taylor & Francis to launch new eCollections Swets Information Services... |
Information Today
August 21, 2006
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Unifies Digitization Forces with Its Acquisition of DiMeMa In the face of what Cathy De Rosa, vice president of OCLC Marketing and Library Services, referred to as the "exploding" market for digitization by libraries, OCLC has acquired DiMeMa. |
Information Today
July 1, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
OCLC Extends Digital Library Offerings OCLC continues its push into the digital library software and services market with two recent announcements. |
Information Today
September 15, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
Information Today
July 30, 2001
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Abandons Proprietary Software for Oracle Standard, Institutes Web Document Archiving Service OCLC, the leading library vendor, continues building for its future as a master player in the emerging virtual library world. Getting down to basics, it has announced that it will substitute the market-standard Oracle software as its basic platform... |
Information Today
January 15, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Bell & Howell Announces ProQuest Historical Newspapers Project and The New York Times as the First Available Digital Backfile... |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
Information Today
February 18, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age The microfilm business is still going strong. ProQuest, which has the largest commercially available microform collection in the world, adds millions of microfilm images each year. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
March 2004
Barbara Quint |
The Horse's Mouth Even when publishers make archives available, they often provide very limited collections, especially back issues. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
Information Today
February 7, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Information Today
November 19, 2001
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC Offers to Purchase netLibrary's Assets OCLC announced that it has made an offer to purchase "substantially all the assets of netLibrary and assume certain netLibrary liabilities"... |
Information Today
March 22, 2010 |
Gale Databases Coming to WorldCat Local The agreement calls for OCLC to centrally index the metadata of Gale's Academic OneFile and General OneFile databases to provide WorldCat Local users a direct link to the abstracts and articles in these popular, authoritative resources. |
Information Today
November 2008
Miriam A. Drake |
OCLC: An Enterprise With a Global Perspective In the 10 years since Robert "Jay" Jordan became president of OCLC, he has transformed the company into a global enterprise and created greater value for libraries and the public. |
Information Today
June 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct OCLC, the library vendor run by librarians, continues to push its services and the services of the libraries it serves into a more demanding user environment. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Information Today
June 6, 2011 |
OCLC Web-scale Management Services on Target for July 1 Release In addition to the 32 committed libraries in the U.S., BIBSYS, the Norwegian library consortium signed an agreement with OCLC to base its new library management system on Web-scale Management Services, which will include management tools for more than 100 libraries in Norway. |
Information Today
April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
Information Today
October 22, 2007 |
OCLC Enhances CONTENTdm Online Computer Library Center has added new features and functionality to CONTENTdm to make it easy for libraries to manage and access documents in PDF and integrate digital collection growth into their current catalog. |
Information Today
January 30, 2012 |
NAACP Archives Go Digital ProQuest History Vault's NAACP Papers 1 will provide the first electronic access to files from the group's Board of Directors and Annual Conferences, as well as text of major speeches and national staff records. |
Information Today
January 9, 2006
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Expands Linking Resources with Acquisition of Openly Informatics OCLC, the leading library vendor, has acquired Openly Informatics, a service that supplies linking software and services to libraries through direct arrangements and, especially, through platform services provided to library vendors. |
Information Today
February 5, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Information Today
April 28, 2011 |
Text Creation Partnership Makes 18th-Century Texts Freely Available to the Public The University of Michigan Library announced the opening to the public of 2,231 searchable keyed-text editions of books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, published by Gale, part of Cengage Learning. |
D-Lib
August 2007
Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
Information Today
July 16, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria. |
Information Today
February 20, 2014 |
ProQuest and OCLC Partner for Library Discovery ProQuest added more than 320 million records from the ProQuest Central cross-disciplinary research tool to OCLC's WorldCat Discovery Services, a combination of OCLC's FirstSearch and WorldCat Local that debuts in March. |
Information Today
October 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today
November 15, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Yahoo! Offer Joint Toolbar The co-branded toolbar serves as a vehicle for delivering Open WorldCat content and empowers users with the ability to seamlessly search for information that is available in offline databases. |
Information Today
November 15, 2012 |
OCLC Expands Partnership With Goodreads OCLC announced that it expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads, which claims to be the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, to help provide greater visibility for all libraries. |
Information Today
September 2004 |
NewsBytes VNU Exhibitions Europe Acquires Library + information Show... SwetsWise Welcomes BioMed Central's Open-Access Journals...Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor... etc. |
Information Today
September 18, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Full-Image Newspaper Collection Launches New Version... Readex Launches New Interface for Newspaper Collections... EOS International Adds FileTrail RFID Tracking... |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Information Today
October 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web... |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
