Yet another commentary on OCLC, MSU, etc.

And yet another commentary on OCLC

Another commenatary on OCLC & SkyRiver

More comentary on the OCLC, SkyRiver & MSU

"A new company called SkyRiver (www.theskyriver.com) has launched a bibliographic utility directly challenging long-dominant OCLC. Over the last 18 years, strategic acquisitions by OCLC have narrowed competition, but SkyRiver-started by Jerry Kline, the owner and cofounder of Innovative Interfaces-aims to expand the market and offer an alternative bibliographic utility for cataloging at a lower cost."

"When SkyRiver launched an alternative to OCLC's bibliographic utility in October, part of the expectation was that libraries could continue with popular OCLC services aside from cataloging. But only recently has this expectation been tested, and the outcome is less clear than SkyRiver and a number of its potential customers had hoped. "