I just had an article, SkyRiver and Innovative Interfaces File Antitrust Suit Against OCLC, published as an Information Today NewsBreak. The introduction states:
SkyRiver Technology Solutions filed a complaint for Federal and State antitrust violations and unfair competition against OCLC in United States District Court, Northern Division of California on July 28. The suit [1] alleges [...]
When the SkyRiver bibliographic utility was first announced, I thought this would eventually lead to some sort of legal action. What I didn’t know is who would be the first to bring legal action and against whom. Well, now we know. SkyRiver, joined by Innovative Interfaces, has filed a lawsuit in federal court in San [...]
After being away for a short while at a conference, I am catching up on some week old e-mails. One e-mail I received was about an article in ALCTS Newsletter Online about Michigan State University’s experience with the new SkyRiver bibliographic utility. The bottom line, according to the article, is that they saved about $80,000 [...]
I just read a press release that says that Nylink will wind down its operations over the next 12 months. Nylink, like other regional OCLC Networks had to look for different revenue streams due to changes at OCLC and the economy in general. However, unlike most (all?) of the other regional networks, it was tied [...]
The ninth issue of the Code4Lib Journal was published today. There are some really good articles in this issue. In fact, I think this is one of the better issues we have published so far, so I encourage you to check it out.
One particular article I’d like to point out is Sibyl Schaefer’s article [...]
It was not unexpected, and happened last week, but since I mentioned the controversy enough on this blog, I figured I’d let everyone know that “OCLC has formally withdrawn the proposed policy [and a] new group will soon be assembled to begin work to draft a new policy with more input and participation from the [...]
The OCLC Review Board of Shared Data Creation & Stewardship has posted the presentation slides and a recording from their update to Members Council on May 18. I haven’t been able to connect to their streaming server, but the PDF shows, that among other things, they have recommended to “Formally withdraw the proposed policy” on [...]
I am happy to report that three major independent library automation user groups have agreed to co-endorse the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) Statement on the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records, dated May 11, 2009. The user groups represented are Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA), Unicorn [...]
The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) has released it’s “Statement on the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records.” I think it is good to see them issue a statement on this. I wish it was worded a little stronger, but it still calls for OCLC to start-a-new which would be [...]
Towards the end of last week, OCLC announced a “quick start” version of the OCLC WorldCat Local service. I was at ELAG last week a and traveling so I didn’t have a lot of time to look at it until today when I watched the Webinar they offered. There are really two separate, but related [...]