Archive for June, 2010
Please join OCLC in our continuing Distinguished Seminar Series Presentation hosted by OCLC Research for Paul Courant’s presentation in person and online on Economic Perspectives on Academic Libraries.
Economic Perspectives on Academic Libraries
Paul Courant
University Librarian and Dean of Libraries
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Economics and of Information
University of Michigan
Thursday, 8 July 2010
9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Coffee and Pastry Reception
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Presentation and Discussion
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Kilgour Building—Auditorium
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, OH 43017-3395
This presentation is free and open to the public.
Overview of Presentation:
Paul Courant has spent most of the last thirteen years attending to the interests of a major research university and its library, both as a practitioner (provost, librarian) and as a policy economist. The library is an exquisitely complicated institution. It is a big nonprofit business that supports the mission of an even bigger nonprofit business. It plays essential roles in a number of industries, notably those related to the production and distribution of scholarship. For over a century, its focus has been almost entirely on the interests of the local institution. Changes in information technology are radically altering the sustainability (to use the buzzword of the day) of that focus. The library, its associated industries, and its relationship to other libraries and to institutions that serve libraries are all profoundly affected by the fact that copying and distribution, which used to be expensive, are now very cheap. In this presentation, Courant will develop this theme and some associated variations, concluding with some thoughts on the properties of collective institutions requisite to the effective and efficient functioning of academic libraries.
Biography of Presenter:
Paul N. Courant is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Economics and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. From 2002-2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the University. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Courant has authored half a dozen books, and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, state and local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, his academic work has considered the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the effects of new information technologies and other disruptions on scholarship, scholarly publication, and academic libraries.
Paul Courant holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College (1968); an MA in Economics from Princeton University (1973); and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1974).
Background Reading
Paul Courant’s Blog
http://paulcourant.net/
Paul Courant’s Publications
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pnc/workingpapers.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pnc/research.html
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June 30th, 2010
OCLC Americas Regional Council announces results of inaugural election
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2010—At its first annual meeting under OCLC’s new governance structure, the OCLC Americas Regional Council (ARC) announced today the results of its inaugural election.
Seven librarians were elected to the ARC Executive Committee:
- Chair – Anne Prestamo, Associate Dean for Collections and Technology Services, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
- Vice Chair/Chair-Elect – Bill Maes, University Librarian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Secretary – Terry S. Latour, Dean of Libraries, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, Pennsylvania, USA
- Member-at-Large – Lynn Baird, Dean of Library Services, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
- Member-at-Large – Joseph Hafner, Associate Director, Collection Services, McGill University Library, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Member-at-Large – Betty Landesman, Digital Resources and Metadata Coordinator, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Member-at-Large – Maria de los Angeles Lugo, Library Director, Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico
All elected Officers, with the exception of the Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, will serve one-year terms (July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011). The Vice Chair/Chair-Elect assumes the office of Chair on July 1, 2011. The Chair and Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, by virtue of their election this year, also become two of the new ARC delegates on the OCLC Global Council for three years (July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2013).
Fourteen librarians were elected ARC Delegates to the OCLC Global Council for three-year terms beginning on July 1, 2010, and ending on June 30, 2013, to represent OCLC members in the Americas:
- Bonnie Allen, Dean of Libraries, The University of Montana Mansfield Library, Missoula, Montana, USA
- Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Dalia Corkrum, Library Director, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, USA
- Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Director of University Libraries and Professor, The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Gilda del Carmen Gajardo Oliva, Head of Coihueco Public Library, Coihueco, Chile
- Joyce Garnett, University Librarian, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Jan Ison, Executive Director, Lincoln Trail Libraries System, Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Karen Lequay, Campus Librarian, University of the West Indies, Open Campus, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lisa O’Hara, Head, Technical Services, University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Mark Pumphrey, Director, Polk County Public Library, Columbus, North Carolina, USA
- Debbie Schachter, Director of Technology & Collection Management, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Wilbur Stolt, Director of Libraries, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
- John Szabo, Director, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Patrick Wilkinson, Director, Forrest R. Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
“I’d like to thank everyone who participated in our first election and took part in the activities of the Americas Regional Council during our initial year,” said Patrick Wilkinson, Outgoing Chair, Americas Regional Council and Library Director, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. “I specifically would like to acknowledge members of the 2009/2010 Executive Committee—Anne Prestamo, Beth Barlow, Brian Schottlaender, Theresa Byrd, Ishwar Laxminarayan, Karen Lequay and Anne Van Camp—who worked hard to make our inaugural year so successful. I am grateful for their involvement and leadership.
“With the new governance structure taking place, it is a very exciting time in the life of the cooperative. Every member’s voice is important. The goal of the Americas Regional Council is to represent library perspectives and make it easier for libraries, archives and museums to have a voice and be involved. I’m confident we cultivated some new connections and advanced the needs of libraries. It has been my privilege to work with so many individual libraries on building ARC, and I pass the leadership of the ARC to the new executive committee with confidence.”
This was the first election of officers for the Americas Regional Council since OCLC governance changed from a single Members Council to a Global Council and three regional councils—Americas, Asia Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
The annual meeting was held in conjunction with the ALA Annual Conference. Voting was conducted using an electronic ballot and took place between May 14 and June 14. Voting representatives from among the 22,000 OCLC members in the Americas Region elected the executive committee members and global council delegates. Each OCLC member institution was permitted one voting representative to vote on behalf of that institution.
More information about the election and the Americas Regional Council is available at http://www.oclc.org/councils/americas.
About the OCLC Americas Regional Council
Comprised of members from libraries and cultural heritage organizations in Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States, the Americas Regional Council is one of three regional councils that are part of OCLC’s new governance structure to facilitate member-to-member discussions. The Council is the primary means through which members offer feedback on OCLC products, services, programs and policies through OCLC’s Global Council, and help shape the future of the cooperative.
ARC meetings are open to all interested OCLC members, participants and nonmembers. These meetings facilitate connections among members throughout the region and back to OCLC through the Global Council.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 171 countries have used OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend, preserve and manage library materials. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world’s largest online database for discovery of library resources. Search WorldCat on the Web at www.worldcat.org.
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June 29th, 2010
OCLC and ebrary sign agreement to add ebook records, links to WorldCat
New partnership will help libraries make ebook holdings more visible, accessible through WorldCat
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 24, 2010—OCLC and ebrary, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, are working together to add records for the ebrary ebook catalog to WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database for discovery of library resources.
ebrary’s growing selection of over 170,000 authoritative ebooks in all subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the ebrary platform. Libraries that subscribe to ebrary ebooks can have ebrary set holdings automatically for the relevant records. WorldCat Local authenticated users will then be able to link directly to ebrary ebooks from the corresponding WorldCat records. Web users searching through WorldCat.org will be able link to the ebrary platform to preview the ebooks and find out how their library might be able to access them. Libraries may choose to share records for their own theses and dissertations, special collections, and other electronic documents hosted by ebrary.
“We, at ebrary, are very pleased to have entered into this partnership with OCLC,” said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. “This is something that our customers have been requesting from us for a long time, and we are very happy to have done this. Partnerships like this are important to making information more accessible, providing better integration within library systems and improving the value of our services and our publishers’ content for libraries, which is something we will always try our best to do.”
“Libraries will welcome the addition of records representing the ebrary ebook collection to WorldCat,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “OCLC continues to partner with organizations to improve the ability of WorldCat to point to all types of collections, such as Google Books, the HathiTrust Digital Library, database providers and ebook providers such as ebrary. We will continue to work with partners to maximize the visibility and value of libraries’ full collections.”
To find out more about ebook and econtent partnerships with OCLC, contact Bill Carney, OCLC Content Manager, at carneyb@oclc.org.
About ebrary
ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 425 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers content services—DASH! (do-it-yourself), Software as a Service (SaaS) and licensed—for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online. All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools™, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customer’s choice, extending content value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies. Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA. More information about ebrary is at www.ebrary.com.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners.
June 25th, 2010
OCLC Web-scale Management Services available July 1 to early adopters
OCLC® Web-scale Management Services offer a next-generation choice for traditional, back-office operations. Moving these functions to the Web alongside cataloging and discovery activities will allow your library to:
- Lower total cost of ownership for management services;
- Automate critical (but routine) back-office operations;
- Reduce the support costs for disparate systems;
- Enable cooperative intelligence for informed decisions; and
- Free resources for high-priority services.
Web-scale Management Services are now moving from the pilot phase to production with the release of acquisition and circulation features to early adopters. Updates will follow for subscription/license management and cooperative intelligence.
“We see OCLC Web-scale Management Services as a way to bring improvements and efficiencies to our staff functions in the areas of acquisition, processing and circulation support. Moreover, a Web-based approach makes sense to us; we want to manage information, not hardware,” said Mark Roosa, Dean of Libraries, Pepperdine University, Web-scale pilot participant.
The value of Web scale: more ways to cooperate
OCLC members have made it clear: libraries are faced with scarce resources, disparate systems and local maintenance issues. Demand for library services has never been higher and new, innovative responses are needed to meet these challenges. The goal of Web scale is to save time and money while simplifying library workflows. An Advisory Council and pilot libraries have been engaged in shaping these services to meet those needs, and the community is now expanding to include early adopters.
WorldCat® cataloging and resource sharing members already benefit from the work of other participants. Similarly, sharing back-office workflows and data will broadly serve the global library community—work done once can be applied globally. Members will be able to share more data elements, processes and new apps with other libraries. Simply put, Web-scale Management Services provide an environment for new sharing opportunities.
What makes OCLC Web scale unique?
Not simply a replacement for other products, OCLC Web-scale Management Services are truly revolutionary. They:
- Leverage the size and scope of WorldCat, the largest library catalog on earth, and the OCLC cooperative;
- Allow for shareable data about back-office services;
- Work entirely on the Web, eliminating many support issues;
- Integrate with discovery and delivery functions; and
- Are built on a cooperative platform in order to better share costs and encourage future innovation.
According to our members, the costs of “business as usual” are unacceptably high. Web scale is the next, logical step.
To learn more
Join us at ALA Annual 2010 for this session, Web-scale or Bust: Harnessing Cooperative Innovation for Management Services (Saturday, June 26 at 1:30 – 3:30 pm Four Points by Sheraton, Franklin Room A–C ).
Or, register for the upcoming July 21 online session at: www.oclc.org/info/ala/webscalejuly21.htm
June 24th, 2010
Expand Your World Through Web Conferencing
Join WebJunction for a free webinar that will showcase success stories of library staff who are using web conferencing tools to host virtual conferences, produce e-learning activities, collaborate with remote staff, and host virtual meetings. As budgets tighten and as technologies improve, more and more staff are gathering together both online and blended with face2face settings to learn from each other and to get work done. Come hear about the benefits of meeting virtually and learn how a variety of web conferencing tools are being integrated with other technologies and in other settings to overcome both cost and distance. Join panalists Karen Burns, Cindi Hickey and Jennifer Peterson for a session filled with experience and expertise in online engagement!
Register today! http://evanced.info/webjunction/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=1650
June 23rd, 2010
IMLS grant to WebJunction and State Library of North Carolina will sustain effort to help libraries assist the unemployed
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 22, 2010—The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded OCLC WebJunction and the State Library of North Carolina (SLNC) a grant to continue work to provide library-based employment services and programs to assist the unemployed.
The $940,750 grant will fund work to conduct an impact and needs assessment on unemployment in all United States regions, and create a corresponding curriculum that can be tailored to meet local needs so that libraries are better equipped to meet the needs of the unemployed.
WebJunction, OCLC’s online learning community for library staff, and SLNC will conduct a train-the-trainer workshop and up to 75 local workshops for public library staff working in the highest unemployment areas. They will deliver presentations at local conferences and make a free version of the workshop available online, in addition to hosting a Web site for ongoing communication among state libraries.
This project follows a previous IMLS funded project launched by WebJunction and SLNC to gather and share best practices for providing library-based employment services and programs.
“The State Library of North Carolina is looking forward to working with Web Junction and our partner libraries as they continue to deliver innovative and effective services and programs for their communities,” said Jennifer S. Pratt, Chief of Library Development, State Library of North Carolina.
“WebJunction is eager to continue work with the State Library of North Carolina to help libraries help the unemployed,” said Chrystie Hill, OCLC Director of Community Service. “This project will enhance libraries’ ability to provide stable, sustainable infrastructure for their communities’ economic recovery.”
“Library services are in great demand as evidenced by the growing numbers of patrons turning to the library to meet their education, workforce, and health information needs,” said Marsha L. Semmel, acting director of IMLS. “At the same time, information technology has transformed library service and opened the doors to innovation so that libraries can reach diverse people more effectively. In this fast-changing environment, providing training and educational support for librarians and library staff is more important than ever.”
The IMLS grant was one of 38 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants awarded totaling $22,623,984.
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute’s mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development. To learn more about the Institute, please visit www.imls.gov.
About WebJunction
Since 2003, WebJunction has helped more than 50,000 library staff build their job skills by partnering with state library agencies and other library service organizations to deliver cost-effective staff training and development programs. WebJunction’s vision is to be the place where the library profession gathers to build the knowledge, skills, and support it needs to power relevant, vibrant libraries. Based in Seattle, Washington, and Dublin, Ohio, WebJunction is supported in part by OCLC, grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the library community. More information is available at www.webjunction.org.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WebJunction, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or servicemarks of their respective owners.
June 22nd, 2010
Connexion client 2.20 is released!
Version 2.20 is a 32-bit and 64-bit compatible version of Connexion client which will work with 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The only change in this version is the addition of 64-bit compatibility; only users who want to run Connexion client under 64-bit versions of Windows need to upgrade to this version. OCLC will continue to support Connexion client 2.10 for all other users.
Connexion client is the Windows-based interface to Connexion. This announcement does not impact the Connexion browser, which is the Web-based interface to Connexion.
Information about Connexion client and a link to download the software is here:
http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/recent.htm
View the upgrade instructions here:
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/client/gettingstarted/gettingstarted/#update_client.fm
June 21st, 2010
OCLC is pleased to announce that Susan Bach Books is now an active WorldCat Selection partner!
Susan Bach Books, located in Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1949 by a linguist and book dealer from Europe and is the oldest existing book dealing firm in the country. As a distributor of all Brazilian university and academic presses, they have a large stock of out-of print books and periodicals and a fine collection of Rare Books. Their representatives are in all regions of Brazil and have arrangements with a few book dealers from Spanish-speaking neighboring countries which enable them to supply some selected titles from Latin America. They provide full library services of Brazilian materials in all subjects and their services include: approval plans, standing orders, serial subscriptions, new-titles bulletins, monographic ordering, full cataloging and minimal level records, and shelf- ready processing.
For more information about Susan Bach Books, please see: http://www.sbachbooks.com.br/.
For more information about WorldCat Selection, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection.
For a complete list of WorldCat Selection partners, both current and forthcoming, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection/partners.
June 21st, 2010
New record use policy ‘WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative’ — effective August 1
Community feedback shaped new policy
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 21, 2010—A new WorldCat record use policy, developed by a Record Use Policy Council and informed by community input, has been approved by the OCLC Board of Trustees. WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative will be effective August 1, 2010.
The new policy outlines the rights and responsibilities associated with stewardship of the WorldCat bibliographic and holdings database by and for the OCLC cooperative, including the use and exchange of OCLC member-contributed data comprising WorldCat.
The policy was drafted by the Record Use Policy Council, a group of 12 library leaders charged by the OCLC Board of Trustees to craft a replacement for the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records, which was developed in 1987.
In April 2010, the Record Use Policy Council submitted to the library community and to the OCLC Board a draft policy that began a two-month period of community review and discussion. More than 275 comments were gathered via e-mail, phone, meetings and letters, in an online forum, and by monitoring blogs, listservs, and Twitter. At the end of May, community input was incorporated and a policy statement was submitted to the OCLC Board, which approved the revised document during its June meeting.
“We decided to emphasize a code of good practice for members of the cooperative, based on shared values, trust and reciprocity,” said Jennifer Younger, Co-Chair of the Record Use Policy Council, President-Elect, OCLC Global Council and Chair, Board of Directors, Catholic Research Resources Alliance. “The focus of the new policy is on member rights and responsibilities—instead of data ownership issues, detailed provisions or restrictions—with the general aim of fostering innovation in our ever-changing information landscape.”
The policy is based on the premise that OCLC members value WorldCat as a comprehensive, timely, and accurate reflection of the consolidated holdings of those members. The policy’s intent is to encourage the widespread use of WorldCat bibliographic data while also supporting the ongoing and long-term sustainability and utility of WorldCat and of WorldCat-based services such as resource sharing, cataloging, and discovery.
“The new policy supports library choice in a hybrid environment of metadata types and content standards,” said Barbara Gubbin, Co-Chair of the Record Use Policy Council and Director, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library. “It recognizes as essential the need for OCLC members to share and reuse their data with many partners, across many systems, sites, and applications.”
The Record Use Policy Council was named in September 2009 to develop this new policy by providing a broad and inclusive set of perspectives and experiences, determining the current and future information needs of the library community, and gathering and including feedback from the library community.
“We heard from many OCLC members, and we listened,” said Larry Alford, Chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees and Dean of University Libraries, Temple University. “This process was an exercise in governance of the collaborative by its members. The result is a new record use policy that will serve the cooperative well as we continue to nurture and grow WorldCat while providing libraries with the flexibility they need to use WorldCat derived data in innovative ways in a rapidly changing information environment.”
Mr. Alford acknowledged the work of the Record Use Policy Council. “These global library leaders spent many months grappling with complex issues and listening to library community input,” said Mr. Alford. “OCLC members worldwide owe this dedicated group a deep debt of gratitude for their time and hard work.”
The new policy will become effective August 1, 2010, replacing the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records. Because the data sharing environment is constantly and rapidly evolving, this new policy will be regularly reviewed to ensure its continued timeliness.
To view the new policy, including a Frequently Asked Questions document and a comparison between the draft submitted for community review and the final document, visit www.oclc.org/worldcat/recorduse/.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or servicemarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or servicemarks of their respective owners.
June 21st, 2010
OCLC is pleased to announce that Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta is now an active WorldCat Selection partner!
Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta is one of the leading Spanish suppliers of bibliographical material for institutional and scientific libraries. They have been providing Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American books and non-print materials to specific libraries all over the world for many decades. The most important reasons behind the successful cooperation that they have built on with their clients are their long experience (since 1924) in the market of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American books and their highly qualified staff, whose members are trained to meet the specific needs of the various libraries. Their prime service is the approval plan. Over the course of many years and in cooperation with highly specialized libraries, Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta have developed the necessary tools in order to offer the best selection of bibliographic material for any defined profile. Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta has earned itself an outstanding reputation in the Anglo-Saxon and European world for the quality of its blanket orders.
For more information about Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta, please see: http://www.ibersaculib.com/.
For more information about WorldCat Selection, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection.
For a complete list of WorldCat Selection partners, both current and forthcoming, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection/partners.
June 16th, 2010
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