This paper presents an approach for providing terminology Web services for controlled vocabulary terms. Services are implemented within a service oriented framework. A set of experimental services for genre vocabularies is provided through the MS Office Research pane, a built-in feature of Internet Explorer (IE) when users have loaded MS Office 2003. Web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Op...

An examination of interlibrary loan statistics from 1986 through 1992 at the Health Sciences Library (HSL), State University of New York at Buffalo, revealed that the numbers of requests received via DOCLINE increased steadily over this period. Meanwhile, the numbers of requests received via OCLC rose from 1986 to 1989 but then declined steadily from 1989 to 1992. To understand and interpret th...

This meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., pursuant to the notice of the Secretary dated May 29, 2007, and in accordance with Article VII, Section I, of the Code of Regulations of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., convened at 8:30 a.m. local time on June 11, 2007, in the Saxenburgaal Room of the Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Wi...

Prepared and edited by Neil McLean, Director, IMS Australia, and Heidi Sander, Business Development Manager, E-learning/Cooperative Initiatives, OCLC; on behalf of the OCLC Task Force: Patricia Albanese (Pitkin), Task Force Chair, Chief Information Officer and Executive Director of Library and Information Technology Services, Mt. Holyoke College; Bradley F. Baker, Dean of Libraries and Learning...

In March 2000, OCLC and RLG announced their commitment to collaborate on identifying and supporting best practices for the long-term retention of digital objects. This collaboration would take the form of facilitating consensus-building activity among key stakeholders in the area of digital preservation: in other words, bringing together leading experts to review existing practices, share exper...