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Information Today
September 30, 2002
Barbara Quint |
Gale Launches E-Books with OCLC's netLibrary Gale Group, a business unit of Thomson Corp., has launched an e-book program that will make a large collection of its reference material available to online library patrons through netLibrary.   |
Information Today
March 6, 2008 |
National Library of China to Add Its Records to OCLC WorldCat The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, making those records available to researchers worldwide. |
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 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
May 8, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
RLG to Merge with OCLC The two leading membership-based organizations in the library world have announced that they plan to join forces. |
Information Today
August 19, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
XanEdu Buys MetaText from OCLC The acquisition will allow XanEdu to combine its curriculum products and tools for the higher education market with MetaText's substantial collection of digital textbooks from leading publishers such as Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Houghton Mifflin. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
SIRSI Announces iBistro Alliances, Implementation of Unicorn System SIRSI Corp. has announced an alliance with netLibrary to integrate the latter's e-book infrastructure into SIRSI's new iBistro Internet Access Center... |
Information Today
December 2000
Tom Hogan |
IT Interview: Jay Jordan Settles In at OCLC Jay Jordan became president and CEO of OCLC about 2 years ago, following the retirement of K. Wayne Smith, who had achieved living legend status during his 10-year tenure---a tough act to follow... |
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
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... |
Information Today
August 23, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Acquires 24/7 Reference Services Two of the nation's leading virtual reference services have merged. The Metropolitan Cooperative Library System has transferred the assets of its popular 24/7 Reference operation to OCLC, the world's largest library network. |
Information Today
July 5, 2005
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services The library service has become more active on the Internet in an effort to make users aware of library holdings and offerings. |
Searcher
January 2001
Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? |
Information Today
September 2000 |
OCLC Introduces WebExpress, CORC Service OCLC has announced both the release of WebExpress, a gateway to local and remote Z39.50 information resources, and the debut of its Cooperative Online Resource Catalog |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2005
Gary Price |
More Online Books Resources NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
Information Today
March 4, 2013 |
OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services. |
Information Today
October 11, 2004
Barbara Quint |
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search. |
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. |
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 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
New Strategies for OCLC; More Content for EBSCO Publishing In a major change of direction, OCLC, a leading vendor of services to and by libraries, has decided to shut down its hosting and reselling of commercially produced vendor databases, including ebooks. |
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
November 1, 2004
Barbara Quint |
netLibrary to Offer Audio Books Over the Web Patrons of libraries subscribing to the program will be eligible to download the books to a wide and expanding range of portable electronic devices. Libraries will pay a fixed annual subscription fee based on their size and expectation of usage. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life. |
Information Today
August 2, 2010
Edward M. Corrado |
SkyRiver and Innovative Interfaces File Antitrust Suit Against OCLC The suit alleges that OCLC is "unlawfully monopolizing the bibliographic data, cataloging service and interlibrary lending markets and is attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems." |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Janelle Brown |
The Napster library Does the San Francisco Public Library's plan to lend out e-books portend the death of the publishing industry? |
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
May 28, 2002
Barbara Quint |
OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives. |
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 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. |
Information Today
May 20, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
Skip Prichard Named OCLC President and CEO Following a nearly yearlong search, David "Skip" Prichard, a well-known and experienced senior executive in the information services market, was named the next OCLC president and CEO. He will succeed Jay Jordan, who will retire June 30. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010 |
OCLC and EBSCO Announce Expanded Data Exchange The new agreement is designed to create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. |
Information Today
October 15, 2007 |
Yale University Press Adds Digital Content to OCLC NetLibrary Yale University Press is now adding digital content to NetLibrary, OCLC's platform for e-content to libraries worldwide. |
Information Today
August 2004
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. |
Information Today
March 2001
Laverna Saunders |
Building the Virtual Reference Desk The distribution of electronic full text to users wherever they are has resulted in fewer transactions at the reference desk. Librarians, therfore, are eager to learn about using developments in digital reference services as a strategy for reaching patrons... |
Information Today
December 2000 |
Wiley Partners with netLibrary, Lightning Source John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements with netLibrary and Lightning Source to provide the online distribution of about 750 new frontlist titles per year... |
Information Today
April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003 |
NewsBreaks ebrary Partners with Society of Manufacturing Engineers... CrossRef Drops DOI Retrieval Fees... OCLC Offers New Cataloging Program... |
Information Today
June 26, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection Springer, which claims to be the world's largest scientific, technical and medical book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform. |
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
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
December 15, 2011
Marshall Breeding |
OCLC WorldShare Platform: OCLC Brands and Strengthens Its Webscale Strategy It has been no secret that OCLC has been hard at work developing a new global technology platform to support the automation needs of libraries. |
Information Today
August 12, 2010 |
OCLC Issues Statement on SkyRiver Lawsuit On July 29, SkyRiver Technology Solutions and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. filed suit against OCLC, alleging anticompetitive practices. We at OCLC believe the lawsuit is without merit, and we will vigorously defend the policies and practices of the cooperative. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2003
Mick O'Leary |
QuestionPoint Fortifies Libraries in Internet Age QuestionPoint puts the collective expertise of libraries around the world at the service of an individual reference question. It promises to help libraries regain "information market share" from the public Web. |
Information Today
January 22, 2009 |
OCLC Releases NetLibrary Media Center The new NetLibrary Media Center, a full-featured desktop application that allows library patrons to easily search, manage, transfer, and listen to downloadable eAudiobooks. |
Information Today
November 12, 2013 |
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs. |
Information Today
February 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum LibLime, an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years, has made its move to the next frontier of openness by providing open data and open library content. |
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. |
Information Today
February 27, 2012
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries. |
