Petition for OCLC to Collaboratively Re-write Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records
Petition Background InformationOCLC staff members were directed by the OCLC Board of Trustees to write an updated OCLC record use policy in 2008, in order to replace the 1987 OCLC Guidelines for the U... continue reading »
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No The records in Worldcat are the intellectual property of the catalogers who created them, or in some cases their employers. They have chosen to share them, and OCLC has no legal o"
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No My opinions on this matter here registered may not be those of my employer."
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No Minuteman Library Network, Massachusetts"
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No I'd like to know what the Library of Congress thinks about this policy, particularly with regard to records in its own system than have OCLC numbers in the 035. I honestly don't s"
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No This is a step backward for public service and accessibility. It is narrow and it is wrong."
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"Institution is OCLC Member? No Institution contributes records to OCLC? No The library community, especially those who created the MARC records in the first place, is declaring that OCLC has no right to claim an exclusive license for work it did not crea"
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