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From: Dooley,Jackie <dooleyj(a)oclc.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Colleagues,
I¹m pleased to report that OCLC¹s response to the reported submitted in
December 08 by the OCLC WorldCatLocal Special Collections and Archives Task
Force is now on the RBMS website. Both documents are posted on the
Bibliographic Standards Committee page:
http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/index.shtm
See the section "Other documents" at bottom of page.
OCLC convened this task force in summer 08 after learning from our community
that WorldCatLocal lacked significant content and functionality that is
crucial for effective discovery of rare books, archives, and other special
collections material. The group of experts (listed in the task force¹s
report) worked closely with OCLC staff under a short timeline and produced
an excellent report that makes 14 recommendations for improvements. The good
news is that fixes for a significant number of these will be implemented in
the next few months (including one significant item‹a more robust detailed
record display--in a system upgrade on 19 April), while others are under
development. A couple of very difficult issues are under continued study by
OCLC.
Information about providing feedback to OCLC appears on the page one of
OCLC¹s response document.
Best wishes, jackie
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Jackie Dooley
Consulting Archivist
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
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