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["David P. Dillard" <jwne@temple.edu>]

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OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services

OCLC Pilots Traditional Libraries into Web Services
by Barbara Quint
July 5, 2005
Information Today, Inc
<http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050705-2.shtml>

July 5, 2005 Over the next few months, a series of pilot projects will
expand OCLCs Open WorldCat project into a full-featured, Web-integrated
library service. In December 2004, OCLC (http://www.oclc.org) opened
WorldCat, its master union catalog of library holdings, to Google, Yahoo!
Search, and other outlets. Initially, the material accessible to the Web
search engines was books and monographs. With the new eSerials pilot
project, OCLC will begin expanding content to electronic journal
collections. The reference services pilot will link Web searchers to
reference librarianssometimes live onesthrough an Ask a Librarian feature.
The bookselling pilot connects Open WorldCat searchers directly with book
purchasing options made by OCLC with Baker and Taylor. Member libraries
will receive shares of the sales to their patrons. In August, OCLC begins
charging member libraries for participating in Open WorldCat through
FirstSearch subscriptions. It looks like the libraries, their patrons, and
Web users everywhere should be getting their moneys worth.

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