Information Today – "When Robert “Jay” Jordan became president of OCLC in 1998, he found an organization with a talented, dedicated staff focused on North America. In the 10 years he has been president, he has transformed the company into a global enterprise and created greater value for libraries and the public"
Press 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.”
WorldCat 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 value” of RSS. Whatever the application, RSS is about keeping up, either with a reader or a personal portal. Different strokes.
Press 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.”
OCLC – “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.”
OCLC – “OCLC continues to put social functionality into WorldCat.org in order to build a social network of the world’s library users”
OCLC – “More than 10,000 personalized lists have been created within WorldCat.org since the social networking feature was introduced in June.”
Paul R. Pival wants to know why WorldCat lists don’t have RSS Feeds. Great question. It’s a no brainer, IMO.
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