EZProxy, the proxy server created by a librarian for libraries, has been acquired by OCLC.

OCLC has been doing some interesting things in the past couple of years… and indications are they will be doing even more in the next couple of years.  This acquisition might mean some added functionality to WorldCat Local, perhaps?

from ResourceShelf

On the Record : Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Pdf), which is the final version (formerly titled “Report of the Library…”), has been released.

Working Group main page.

Daniel Chudnov’s humorous comment on one particular segment of the report.

My previous comments here and here and here and here.

found via Catalogablog, et al.