Archive for the 'OCLC' Category
National Library of China to add its records to OCLC WorldCat
March 1st, 2008Press Release - “The National Library of China, the largest library in Asia, will add its bibliographic records to the OCLC WorldCat database, the world’s most comprehensive online resource for finding items held in libraries, making those records available to researchers worldwide.”
No More Kicking
February 26th, 2008David Lee King gets a kick out of OCLC customer service.
RSS Everywhere
February 26th, 2008WorldCat Blog - “RSS Readers are great for getting content updates, but the real value of RSS comes in displaying your own content on other pages like your blog or a personal portal page like PageFlakes, NetVibes or iGoogle”
And this is worthy of a blog post? C’mon Worldcat bloggers…
Also, I disagree about the “real [...]
Andrew Pace joins OCLC
November 14th, 2007Congrats buddy.
OCLC Releases New Study
October 22nd, 2007Press Release - “OCLC, the world’s largest library research and service organization, has released the third in a series of reports that scan the information landscape to provide data, analyses and opinions about users’ behaviors and expectations in today’s networked world.”
ERIC on Worldcat
October 5th, 2007OCLC - “ERIC is partnering with OCLC to leverage WorldCat to provide users with a link from ERIC records to electronic and print resources available in libraries.”
New WorldCat Stuff
September 20th, 2007OCLC - “OCLC continues to put social functionality into WorldCat.org in order to build a social network of the world’s library users”
WorldCat List Makers
August 28th, 2007OCLC - “More than 10,000 personalized lists have been created within WorldCat.org since the social networking feature was introduced in June.”
WorldCat Lists Sans RSS
June 18th, 2007Paul R. Pival wants to know why WorldCat lists don’t have RSS Feeds. Great question. It’s a no brainer, IMO.
OCLC to Pilot WorldCat Local
April 14th, 2007EContent has the dish.
Citation formats on WorldCat.org
March 7th, 2007New to Worldcat.org They now provide citations for numerous formats directly from any book display. I use this tool everyday, and this is pretty useful.
Webjunction Launches New Site
February 23rd, 2007Congrats to Chrystie, et al.
Looking good Mr. Kotter.
Worldcat Identities
February 18th, 2007Tim O’Reilly on Worldcat Identities:
"A lot of people think that there’s a single big identity play out there, and focus on technology solutions, but it seems to me that in true bottom-up internet style, we may eventually build our online identities out of a mashup of all the tracks we already leave in cyberspace. (Seth [...]