<div dir="ltr">We do as well. I'm unaware of any conversations of discontinuing it. Since the BAS programs here at EDCC are growing, I think we'll need to lean on this and ILL services a bit more until those collections become robust enough to stand on their own. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:26 PM Guidry, Wade <<a href="mailto:WadeG@bigbend.edu">WadeG@bigbend.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">My own, longer
term, musing about OCLC…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">At what point
do libraries, especially academics, begin opting out of OCLC all together? </span>
<span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span>J</span></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Their main services
are providing metadata records, and ILL service. And unfortunately, they also own
<span class="gmail-m_6005664471005126155SpellE">EZProxy</span> now, which is still in wide use. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Other options
already exist for metadata and ILL. Though, for “closed source” metadata records, I don’t think anyone matches OCLC yet. (By ‘closed source’, I mean that OCLC places limits on what you can do with records you obtain from them. I would think of LC as ‘open
source’ records.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Going forward,
seems like libraries, academics anyway, are going to be built more around electronic content, both licensed and open access, than print. Just judging by the direction of budgets.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">My own impression
is that OCLC is not keeping up with the EBSCOs and <span class="gmail-m_6005664471005126155SpellE">ProQuests</span> in building out large metadata repositories for electronic content. (Full disclosure, it’s been a few years since I worked with any of OCLC’s electronic resource metadata,
but at the time it didn’t feel very accurate.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Luckily, here
in the CTCs, I don’t think the OCLC bills are too significant, compared to what you would see at larger libraries.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Wade
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="color:black">Yes, we do
</span></span><span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span style="color:black"> We briefly considered discontinuing but decided it would freak people out to implement so much change at once.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">Tria Skirko</span></b></span><span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black"> | Electronic Services Librarian, MLIS<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Does your institution subscribe to OCLC FirstSearch?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Pierce discontinued our subscription in 2015/2016 (mostly likely in association with moving to Alma) and now we are reconsidering.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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