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About this book
The year 1997 found the members of the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) cooperative in an expansive mood. More than 1,000 library leaders attended the OCLC President's Luncheon in San Francisco, where they celebrated OCLC's 30th anniversary. There were more than 25,000 libraries participating in the cooperative, including nearly 3,000 libraries in 62 countries outside the U.S., and the WorldCat database contained more than 37 million bibliographic records.
Over the next ten years, the global digital library would indeed emerge, but in a form that few could have predicted. Against a backdrop of continuous technological change and the rapid growth of the Internet, the OCLC cooperative's WorldCat database continued to grow and was a central theme of the past decade.
As the chapters in this book show, OCLC's chartered objectives of furthering access to the world's information and reducing the rate of rising library costs continue to resonate among libraries and librarians, as the OCLC cooperative enters its fifth decade.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abstracts
- Introduction OCLC 1998–2008: The Fourth Decade
- 1. Biographical Sketch of Frederick G. Kilgour Librarian, Educator, Entrepreneur, 1914–2006
- 2. Governing a Global Cooperative
- 3. A Brief History of the OCLC Members Council
- 4. RLG and OCLC: Combined for the Future
- 5. OCLC in the Asia Pacific Region
- 6. History and Activity of OCLC in Canada
- 7. OCLC in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 1998–2008
- 8. OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Chronology
- 9. The OCLC Network of Regional Service Providers: The Last 10 Years
- 10. The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program: A Long Name for an Important Project
- 11. 21st Century Library Systems
- 12. Next Generation Cataloging
- 13. The DDC and OCLC
- 14. The Revolution Continues: Resource Sharing and OCLC in the New Century
- 15. Virtual Reference Reflections
- 16. Digital Collections: History and Perspectives
- 17. The RLG Partnership
- 18. WebJunction: A Community for Library Staff
- 19. OCLC Research: Past, Present, and Future
- 20. Advocacy and OCLC
- 21. OCLC 1998–2008: Weaving Libraries into the Web
- 22. Chronology: Noteworthy Achievements of the Cooperative 1967–2008
- Index