LISNews: Librarian News

ResourceShelf posted that EZproxy, used to access services--such as databases, remotely, has been acquired by OCLC. Interestingly OCLC states that they will link EZproxy up to Worldcat.org to, in the words of the press release:

"Additionally, OCLC is planning to connect local instances of EZproxy to WorldCat.org, creating new value for licensees and their users. By surfacing EZproxy in WorldCat.org, end users outside of the library will have better access to library collections and services through WorldCat."

I wonder if this will require any extra work on those that use EZproxy.

Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) has partnered with OCLC to provide MARC 21 Records for the Springer eBook Collection. MARC 21 Records, a standardized form of electronic cataloging records, is a requirement for correctly locating and navigating to online content from any library’s Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). -- Read More

Well, this article did come from LibraryThing's blog, so I'm sure there might be some bias, but they are talking about the dubious email-a-friend practices of one of their competitors, Shelfari. Being against accidentally emailing everyone in my entire address book, I think I'll give them a miss. It is, however, also interesting to see LibraryThing's "take" on who their competitors are.

This ILS Market Analysis was written by Bob Molyneux

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