From your 1999-2000 OCLC Users' Council Delegates:
   Arlene Luster Marcia Talley
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Cataloging Records for netLibrary's Ebooks To Be Available Through Promptcat

DUBLIN, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1999--netLibrary, a leading provider of electronic
books and information over the Internet, is now an active vendor in the OCLC
PromptCat service. The OCLC PromptCat service delivers cataloging records
for any title supplied by participating vendors that has a monographic
record in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog). Records arrive at
libraries at the same time as library materials sent by the vendor, and the
libraries' holding symbols are set in WorldCat. netLibrary MARC records
include a unique URL for each eBook, allowing a direct link from the catalog
to the book. Under a separate agreement with netLibrary, OCLC will maintain
archive copies of the eBooks. "Our agreement with OCLC provides libraries
with the ability to seamlessly integrate eBooks into existing collections
without any interruptions in service or changes to their infrastructure,"
said Tim Schiewe, CEO of netLibrary. "This solidifies our commitment to
offer libraries the best eBook solution. We look forward to working with
OCLC to provide libraries with more productive services." "OCLC and
netLibrary share mutual users who are moving into the digital age and can
benefit from the relationship of our two organizations," said Donald J.
Muccino, OCLC executive vice president and chief operating officer. "This
arrangement will help libraries better manage their growing electronic
collections." netLibrary joins 12 participating book vendors, including
Academic Book Center, Ambassador Book Service, Baker & Taylor, Blackwell's
Book services, Book Clearing House, the Book House, Casalini Libri, DA
Information Services, Majors Scientific Books, Matthews Medical & Scientific
Books, Rittenhouse Book Distributors and Yankee Book Peddler. Other vendors
who have agreed to join the OCLC PromptCat service are Coutts Library
Services, Eastern Book Company, Franklin Book Company, Iberbook
International, Puvill Libros and Jean Touzot Libraire Editeur. The complete
collection of eBook bibliographic records is also available to libraries
through the OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets service. Formed in March 1999,
netLibrary <http://www.netLibrary.com> is the world's leading provider of
reference, scholarly and professional electronic books and information on
the Internet. With over 4,000 unique titles online, netLibrary has forged
relationships with more than 60 publishers, including McGraw-Hill Companies,
Houghton Mifflin, MIT University Press and ABC-CLIO. Nearly 1,000 libraries
already have access to netLibrary digital library services.
For more information: Nita Dean +1-614-761-5002

                        Carla

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                        Carla Krass
                        OCLC Users Council Coordinator
                        6565 Frantz Road, MC 705
                        Dublin, OH 43017
                        Phone: 614/764-6163
                        Fax: 614/798-5732
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