OCLC had a great breakfast where they gave updates, news of upcoming products and services, and table time to talk with other librarians and with OCLC reps. Some of the news and updates were OCLC's three free services: Worldcat.org, openworldcat, and Worldcat registery (see www.oclc.org/worldcat/web/). Worldcat.org is working on providing social web functionality to the WorldCat catalog, such as tagging and patron written reviews. It also includes a search box that you can download and put on your library or personal website, or blog, to let others search all the records in WorldCat, tho not all of the holdings.
Openworldcat is OCLC working with booksellers and search engines to get more book records in search results. WorldCat registry is a list of participating libraries, museums, and the like. These two didn't interest me as much as Worldcat.org, but they still sound useful.
This summer or fall OCLC plans to have 12 RLG databases transferred over to FirstSearch. Along with the databases, OCLC is starting OCLC Terminologies, which is controlled vocabulary of art from the Getty. Finally, good are vocabulary! And to aid librarians in learning and using OCLC's resources, OCLC is starting Web Junction (webjunction.org/learningcenter). It will be a site were librarians can interact and learn together, and an e-learning resources for librarians for continuing education.
It is good to see some part of libraries' catalog are moving towards web 2.0. (Are you listening III and company?)
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