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March 24, 2008 ·
Vol. 11, No. 13 · ISSN 1932-4847
OCLC Abstracts
The latest information about OCLC services, programs,
news and events
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EZproxy 5.0 software enhancements allow libraries to:
- View enhanced audit details that
incorporate the location associated with the source IP address.
- Search across audit data to identify
suspicious activity, including options to search based on location.
- Alter user access based on location,
including the ability to block access or require additional information
for access.
- Display a summary of database
conflicts to identify and correct configuration issues.
- Develop advanced user authentication
and authorization configurations using a new administration page.
EZproxy 5.0 software is available to new licensees at the same price as
previous releases. OCLC will honor the previous service arrangement for
existing and new users whereby licensees continue to enjoy access to new
releases of EZproxy and technical support at no additional charge.
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 Social
networkers are likely to click on Internet radio while online, says the
annual Infinite
Dial 2008: Radio’s Digital Platforms
According to the study:
- Thirteen percent of Americans age 12
or older (an estimated 33 million people) listen to a radio over the
Internet during an average week—up from 29 million listeners one year
ago.
 While
nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of all Americans age 12 or older have a
profile on a social networking Web site such as MySpace, Facebook or Linked-In,
nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of online radio listeners have a profile
on sites like these.- One-third of online radio listeners
with a social network profile visit their social networking site nearly
every day or several times per day.
- The top social networking Web sites
among online radio listeners are MySpace and the business professional
networking service Linked-In. Twenty-eight percent of online radio
listeners have a MySpace page, while nearly one-quarter (24 percent)
have a profile on Linked-In.
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press release ››
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community
This report summarizes interviews conducted between August and September
2007 with staff from eight partner institutions. Interviewees shared
information about how and why institutions investigate and collect
copyright evidence, both for mass digitization projects and for items in
special collections.
The report is one of the deliverables of the Contribute
to the Development of a Registry of Copyright Evidence Project that is
part of RLG Program’s Create
New Structures and Service Areas work agenda program.
Among the findings:
- Several staff interviewed
noted that conducting copyright investigations in a centralized
fashion was a new area of focus for their institutions.
- Except for one institution,
copyright investigations are pursued by a single person who devotes,
at most, a half-time effort to this work.
- Interviewees recognized that
completeness of information or total certainty about the status of an
item or collection may not be achievable.
- The general consensus is that
the legal standard for due diligence is unclear.
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report ››
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