Table of Contents

Contents Introduction

• What WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Means to Me
• Users Council: An Institutionalized Role for Libraries in OCLC's Governance
• The Strategic Alliance Between OCLC and Networks: Partnerships That Work
• OCLC and Its Advisory Committees
• Changing the Tasks of Cataloging
• Reference Revolutions
• An Ongoing Revolution: Resource Sharing and OCLC
• Cooperation Among Research Libraries: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation
• Context for Collaboration: Resource Sharing at the State Level
• The University System of Georgia's GALILEO
• Telecommunications Options Connect Libraries and OCLC to the Future: The Co-Evolution of OCLC Connectivity Option and the Library Computing Environment
• OCLC in Asia Pacific
• OCLC in Europe
• OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean
• The Transformation from Microfilm to Digital Storage and Access
• The OCLC Institute: Genesis and Prospectus
• OCLC's Office of Research: Past, Present, and Future
• The New Electronic Scholarship and Libraries; Or the Medium Became the Message
• OCLC: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

About the Author

K. Wayne Smith