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I don’t think it was really surprising to anyone that PALINET & SOLINET merger has been approved (PDF). Maybe the initial announcement of the plan was, but at this point I think most of us following it were not surprised by the vote (95% in favor).
I don’t know any more about the merger [...]

There really wasn’t much new reported by Library Journal about the WorlCat Record Use policy discussion at ALA MW but it is still worth a read. I wish I could have stayed around Denver to attend the session. One thing that I found interesting is that Karen Calhoun is reported to have “clarified that [...]

I am typically not a fan of online petitions, but Elaine Sanchez has created a petition that includes a good summary of the situation with the upcoming new OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records. I have blogged about this previously so my thoughts are on record and I’m not going [...]

Jonathan Rochkind has an interesting post on his blog about “OCLC, and what we lose without openness (a True Story).” In his post, he talks about how if OCLC was more open, with both its data and its software, that we would see greater innovation in the area of using bibliographic records. I think [...]

Richard Wallis of Talis produced a podcast with Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services, Karen Calhoun and Senior Programme Officer, Roy Tennant about the new WorldCat Record Use Policy. The podcast is about an hour long and Richard asks some of his own questions as well as some sent in by others. Overall there wasn’t [...]

As Rob Styles mentions in his recent post about the OCLC Worldcat policy, Ryan Eby is keeping track of news and happenings with the OCLC Record Usage Policy on the Code4Lib Wiki.

The OCLC Worldcat record policy change has made it to Inside Higher Ed and Slashdot. The Inside Higher Ed article, Maelstrom Over Metadata, doesn’t offer a lot of new information for those that have been following the “Maelstrom.” However it does give a somewhat neutral, if overly brief, overview of the situation. It also have [...]

Aaron Scwartz of the Open Library has a provocative post on what he considers The OCLC Powergrab. He brings in a number of thoughs about how OCLC has lost its original mission and how “OCLC’s control passed from librarians and academics to business people (its senior executive comes from consulting firm Deloitte & Touche).” I’m [...]

Rob Styles has an interesting post on OCLC, Record Usage, Copyright, Contracts and the Law. While Rob is not a lawyer, he did ask James Grimmelmann, an Associate Professor at New York Law School, for his thoughts on the matter. Basically the conclusion that Rob comes up with is that the only way that OCLC [...]

While I still have a number of concerns about the new OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records, I wanted to acknowledge that a couple of my concerns have been addressed by OCLC.
First, I was concerned about the 996 link to the policy being required and that the link was just to [...]