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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • OCLC and the Associated Press -- Two Sides of the Same Information Provider Coin?

    I've run across a striking similarity between the bibliographic utility business and the newswire business, particularly in the area of cooperatives. Two cooperatives -- OCLC on the bibliographic utility side and the Associated Press on the newswire side -- have the same pattern of activity:

    • both are membership organizations,
    • both seek to …
     Posted on  November 11, 2009
     and last updated November 11, 2009
     ·  5 minutes reading time