Knock, Knock! OCLC at the Door With WorldCat Direct , Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Jun 28)
"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. ... After several years of pilot projects, it has officially committed to a service called WorldCat Direct that can deliver books directly to patrons in their homes and offices. Another new pilot project will test direct delivery of full-text articles in PDF formats. Libraries licensing digitized books through ebrary can expect to find the ebrary catalog integrated into WorldCat. Down the road, libraries may even see the application of "recommender engine" technology to WorldCat data, leading to an ability to generate automatic recommendations and reading lists."
Posted by Gwen at July 6, 2010 01:16 PM