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BCR Members Focus on the Future of WorldCat

Directors and librarians attend OCLC focus group at BCR.

A small group of directors and librarians from libraries throughout the BCR region gathered as a focus group last month at BCR's Aurora, Colorado, offices to talk with OCLC staff about the future direction of WorldCat.

The group discussed a potential new interface to WorldCat — which OCLC is even now developing — that would provide a library destination portal accessible to anyone with Web access. The interface is in keeping with OCLC's strategy of "weaving libraries into the Web."

The group — (from left) John H. Pollitz (O'Keefe Memorial Library, St. Ambrose University; Sandra Barstow (University of Wyoming Libraries); Stella Bentley (University of Kansas Libraries); Brenda K. Bailey-Hainer (Colorado State Library); Kay K. Runge (Des Moines Public Library); and Christine Painter (Bud Werner Memorial Library) — posed for photos after lunch.

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