http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/12/26/oclc-critiques/ Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:01:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/12/26/oclc-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-42214 Jakob Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:26:33 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2007/12/26/oclc-critiques/#comment-42214 Parts of OCLC still think too centralized while we are in a networked environment. OCLC is the largest player in library world, but is only one player. Monopoly is bad, so libraries should easily be able to switch from and to OCLC like any other service. If OCLC does a good job (which it does), more libraries will participate. OCLC should not act like commercial vendors that make it difficult to leave them. Parts of OCLC still think too centralized while we are in a networked environment. OCLC is the largest player in library world, but is only one player. Monopoly is bad, so libraries should easily be able to switch from and to OCLC like any other service. If OCLC does a good job (which it does), more libraries will participate. OCLC should not act like commercial vendors that make it difficult to leave them.

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