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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 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 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 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 June 25, 2013	OCLC Creates Metadata API to Improve WorldCat Cataloging Services The API helps OCLC members and partners build applications that allow them to catalog their collections on the OCLC WorldShare Platform, which supports OCLC's cloud-based services and applications worldwide.
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 April 10, 2008	Article Records From British Library Now in WorldCat.org OCLC announced it has added some 20 million article-level metadata records to WorldCat.org from The British Library.
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.
Searcher Nov/Dec 2004 Nancy O'Neill	Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective Ultimately even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. If you believe in libraries, as OCLC obviously does, what's not to love about Open WorldCat?
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 September 8, 2008 Barbara Quint	Solving Copyright Issues Book by Book: OCLC's WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry OCLC is in the third month of a 6-month pilot project testing a WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry. Librarians will have an opportunity to record efforts they have conducted to identify copyright status for sharing with colleagues and the public
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint	CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.
Information Today November 12, 2009 Barbara Quint	OCLC Ingests OAIster: Pearls to Follow The WorldCat.org service now includes all the OAIster records. Users of the old OAIster.org site will now be automatically shifted over to an OCLC-based site.
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 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 July 18, 2011	WorldCat Content Coming to Credo General Reference Service With this new agreement, OCLC member libraries that subscribe to the Credo General Reference service will be able to retrieve a list of books from WorldCat related to the topic of their Credo Reference search.
Information Today November 22, 2010	The British Library Adds 12 Million Records to WorldCat As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and the British Library have enhanced the process to add these valuable records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide.
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 2, 2012	WorldCat Local Users to Search SciVerse ScienceDirect Journals and Ebooks With this collaboration, Elsevier is strengthening its commitment to the library community, simplifying research for library patrons and enhancing usage of its scientific publications.
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary	Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.
Information Today January 12, 2012	OCLC Working With SkillSoft to Add Records for Books24x7 Digital Book Catalog to WorldCat SkillSoft's growing selection of more than 30,000 titles in a variety of subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the Books24x7 platform.
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 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.
Information Today September 29, 2008 Barbara Quint	Search Inside the Google Book With the Google Book Search Preview Wizard The new Preview Wizard from Google installs a set of customizable software tools embedding book information from the Google Book Search Index.
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 August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
Information Today January 26, 2009	OCLC Launches WorldCat Mobile Pilot OCLC has launched a pilot program to make collections from libraries visible through mobile devices.
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 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.
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al.	Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
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 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.
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 August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk.
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli	Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.
Information Today August 8, 2005 Chuck Hamaker	OCLC and Amazon: A Connection Revealed OCLC, a cataloging source and bibliographic utility for thousands of libraries worldwide, has apparently become one of the many streams feeding into Amazon's book title database.
Information Today March 20, 2008 Michael LoPresti	Google Books Reaches Out With New API Google announced the release of a new application programming interface (API) that enables external websites to connect directly to any of the texts in the Google Book Search index.