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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
April 12, 2010 |
Credo Reference Launches Topic Pages as `Librarian's Answer to Wikipedia' Libraries who have participated in the beta testing of Credo Topic Pages are giving it rave reviews. |
Information Today
April 15, 2013 |
Credo Integrates Topic Pages With EBSCO Discovery Service Students who search EDS will now see Topic Pages, which provide a gateway through Credo's trusted multimedia-rich reference content to other library resources. |
Information Today
January 24, 2011 |
Credo Reference Enhances Topic Pages With H.W. Wilson Databases Each of the approximately 9,000 Credo Topic Pages is a starting point that assembles topical material from resources within and outside the library. |
Information Today
June 9, 2011 |
Credo Reference and Ex Libris Agree to Partnership Content from Credo's General Reference, Publisher, and Subject Collections will now be accessible through the Ex Libris Primo Central Index of scholarly content. |
Information Today
June 18, 2012 |
Credo Reference Launches Literati Public Literati Public, developed in close partnership with public librarians, is a highly customizable solution that promotes the mission of public libraries by combining Credo's content with newly developed platform technology. |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
Information Today
February 6, 2014 |
Boopsie and Credo Collaborate on Library Apps Boopsie for Libraries partnered with Credo to integrate its mobile application with Credo's information skills solutions. |
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
May 9, 2013 |
Credo Titles Now Available Through GOBI3 Credo, a provider of information skills solutions -- in partnership with YBP Library Services, the academic division of Baker & Taylor -- made its titles available for purchase through GOBI 3, YBP's acquisition and collection management database. |
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 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
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
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
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
November 15, 2012 |
OCLC Expands Partnership With Goodreads OCLC announced that it expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads, which claims to be the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, to help provide greater visibility for all libraries. |
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
October 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
Credo Reference Tests literati to Enhance Library Information Literacy The company has begun beta testing a new service called literati by Credo that will improve the use of its own and non-Credo sources, educate users, and enhance the role as well as the image of librarians. B |
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 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
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
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 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
March 5, 2012 |
Relais International Partners With OCLC to Share Data and Services Relais International has signed an agreement with OCLC that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. |
Information Today
January 27, 2011 |
EasyBib.com and OCLC Collaborate on Library-Branded Citation Service The EasyBib Library Edition service will be rolled out in a beta testing phase with select OCLC member libraries this month. |
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
January 30, 2012 |
Credo Reference Introduces Literati by Credo Literati by Credo is a collaborative research platform that promotes research effectiveness and information literacy by combining Credo's content with innovative library-centric technology. |
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
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
September 8, 2008 |
Credo Reference Launches Improved Interface Credo Reference, the online reference library, has completely updated and enhanced its interface. |
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
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
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. |
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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
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
September 4, 2014 |
WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide. |
Information Today
October 10, 2011 |
OCLC's Geek the Library Campaign Receives Additional Funding OCLC's Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. |
Information Today
April 24, 2014 |
OCLC and Ingram Automate WorldCat Ebook Holdings OCLC and Ingram Content Group collaborated on a new program that automatically maintains Ingram's MyiLibrary ebook holdings in OCLC's WorldCat. |
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
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. |
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
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
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. |
Information Today
July 27, 2009 |
New OCLC Gateway Service Increases Web Visibility of Digital Collections The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway offers libraries a self-service tool to easily upload metadata from their unique digital content to WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding items held in libraries. |
Information Today
March 2, 2009 |
ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008 |
Information Today
August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Information Today
April 12, 2010
Barbara Quint |
WorldCat Record Use Policy Changes at OCLC OCLC is making a second attempt to define the acceptable use of records in WorldCat, the world's largest library union catalog. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
