Some interesting statistics about how MARC usage has changed in recent OCLC cataloging--perhaps due to the influx of non-US cataloging

"The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have successfully transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC to ensure continued public access to open-archive collections, and to expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.

OAIster records are now fully accessible through WorldCat.org, and will be included in WorldCat.org search results along with records from thousands of libraries worldwide that add their holdings to WorldCat. OCLC plans to release a freely accessible, discrete view of the OAIster records in January 2010 through a URL specific to OAIster."

R2's commissioned report for the Library of Congress

LC's internal working group responds to "On The Record"

Mary Baine Campbell's influential study, Wonder and Science, brings our attention to the connections between seventeenth-century microscopy and eighteenth-century narrative when she argues that Hooke's Micrographia was a forerunner to "Pamela's minute invoices of the sensible world" (201). Campbell's overall focus is on the "graphic detail" of Micrographia and what she calls the "eroticization of sight," a connection that aligns the production of natural history with pornography (189). Reading Micrographia as an erotic plot, Campbell identifies microscopy, and Hooke's text in particular, as a means for voyeuristic pleasure that eventually ends up reformulated into the novel (186-87, 201). -Minute particulars: microscopy and eighteenth-century narrative http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5615366/Minute-particulars-microscopy-and-eighteenth.html

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2010:  World areas and languages of national need:  US gov

October 9, 2009 article on Thomson Reuters report

Chinese Internet Search engine

Thomson Reuters report of October 2009.

by Paul T. Jaeger, Jimmy Lin, Justin M. Grimes, and Shannon N. Simmons
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 5 - 4 May 2009
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by Kate Williams and Hui Yan
First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 - 5 October 2009
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2576/2306