Coyle's InFormation

An interesting aspect of this policy is that it is entirely about the use of WorldCat records. That may seem obvious from its title, but wh...

There has been a lot of excellent commentary about the proposed OCLC record use policy. What I want to do here is highlight a few details a...

Here are some more bits and thoughts on the agreement between Google and the AAP. Library Involvement Some librarians were involved in the ...

Done in haste - hopefully someone can improve. Also, as stimulus for those with better art skills:

Some additions, amendments. The agreement between Google and the AAP is of great significance for libraries. It is also very long, written ...

Most of the talk about "FRBR-ization" (a terrible mis-nomer, but now common terminology) is about creating clusters of records tha...

Among the many interesting bits in the Google/AAP agreement is Section E which essentially lays out in detail what steps Google must take t...