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Foundation of Library and Information Science

Notes Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. IFLA is an independent association that represents libraries and library associations around
the world.

12. The Profession Pillar is of course central to IFLA.
13. The governing structure of IFLA has been revised and came into force in 2000.
14. The ALP Programme was launched in 1984 at the IFLA Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

15. PAC is a joint alliance of IFLA and the Conference of Directors of National Libraries
(CDNL).

Case Study Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)

CLC connects libraries in a global network to manage and share the world’s
knowledge and to form a community dedicated to the values of librarianship:
Ocooperation, resource sharing and universal access. The network links members
to a powerful, cloud-based infrastructure that provides the system wide intelligence and
cooperative platform needed to collectively innovate and drive operational efficiencies in
metadata creation, interlibrary loan, digitization, discovery and delivery. It also provides
opportunities for cooperation and resource sharing built around a worldwide community
of users—working together at the scale of the Web.
The OCLC cooperative is member-owned and member-governed. Librarians guide and
shape our direction through a 16-member Board of Trustees—more than half of whom are
librarians—and a global council of librarians, who are elected by librarians from regional
councils of member libraries.
OCLC provides bibliographic, abstract and full-text information to anyone. OCLC and its
member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat—the OCLC Online Union
Catalogue, the largest online public access catalogue (OPAC) in the world. WorldCat has
holding records from public and private libraries worldwide. The Open WorldCat program
makes records of library-owned materials in OCLC’s WorldCat database available to
Web users on popular Internet search, bibliographic, and bookselling sites. In October
2005, the OCLC technical staff began a wiki project allowing readers to add commentary
and structured-field information associated with any WorldCat record.

Until August 2009, when it was sold to Backstage Library Works, OCLC owned a
preservation microfilm and digitization operation called the OCLC Preservation Service
Center, with its principal office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Research
OCLC has been conducting research for the library community for more than 30 years. In
accordance with its mission, OCLC makes its research outcomes known through various
publications. These publications, including journal articles, reports, newsletters, and
presentations, are available through the organization’s website.
1. OCLC Publications: Research articles from various journals including, but not limited
to, Code4Lib Journal, OCLC Research, Reference & User Services Quarterly, College
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