1st Edition
Oclc 1967:1997 Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information
Edited By K. Wayne Smith
Copyright 1998
300 Pages
by
Routledge
289 Pages
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Routledge
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In OCLC 1967--1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, you'll see how libraries, librarians, and librarianship have changed dramatically since the late sixties, when OCLC was founded as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization. You'll also see how far information professionals have come in their common crusade to provide access to the... Read more
Contents Introduction
- What WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Means to Me
- Users Council: An Institutionalized Role for Libraries in OCLC's Governance
- The Strategic Alliance Between OCLC and Networks: Partnerships That Work
- OCLC and Its Advisory Committees
- Changing the Tasks of Cataloging
- Reference Revolutions
- An Ongoing Revolution: Resource Sharing and OCLC
- Cooperation Among Research Libraries: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation
- Context for Collaboration: Resource Sharing at the State Level
- The University System of Georgia's GALILEO
- Telecommunications Options Connect Libraries and OCLC to the Future: The Co-Evolution of OCLC Connectivity Option and the Library Computing Environment
- OCLC in Asia Pacific
- OCLC in Europe
- OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean
- The Transformation from Microfilm to Digital Storage and Access
- The OCLC Institute: Genesis and Prospectus
- OCLC's Office of Research: Past, Present, and Future
- The New Electronic Scholarship and Libraries; Or the Medium Became the Message
- OCLC: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
K. Wayne Smith
