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• Reference Services
• Jul-Aug 07
• Issue: 214

WorldCat – Synchronization With Mass Book Digitization Pilot Announced

OCLC will begin a pilot in August to synchronize WorldCat with participating mass digitization projects. The pilot is designed to automatically create a record for the digital surrogate in WorldCat. Records in WorldCat will contain links to the digitized item on the Web, which in turn will link to WorldCat.org thus allowing Internet users to locate the item in print in a library nearby.

OCLC Reference and FirstSearch Contact Information

For more information about OCLC FirstSearch, please contact Nylink’s Joyce Rambo (ramboj@nylink.org) or Jennifer Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org).