{"id":2570,"date":"2008-11-17T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:53:39","slug":"rational-and-well-thought-out-oclc-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/rational-and-well-thought-out-oclc-response.html","title":{"rendered":"Rational and Well Thought-Out OCLC Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I have been gathering my thoughts together in order to post an essay-style overview of the issues surrounding the OCLC records policy changes.\u00a0 As of now, I am going to put those thoughts aside, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/linotype\/about-me\/\">Stefano Mazzocchi<\/a> has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaversion.org\/~stefano\/linotype\/news\/220\/\"><strong>excellently rational and well thought-out essay<\/strong><\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n<p>I feel glad that I have injected some of the points he mentions into my own posts.\u00a0 OCLC is a tiger (my own reference) defending its territory; this means they feel threatened.\u00a0 Stefano described how OCLC can become the lady, opening up their process and becoming a hero to librarians, bibliophiles, and geeks worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Can they take a cue from the Open Source movement and adjust their business model to better fit their actual position in the biblioverse?\u00a0 Stefano is hesitant about their chances; I have a lot of respect for many of the people and projects at OCLC, and feel that they can achieve nearly anything the set their collective minds towards (except to maintain a monopoly on the course they seem to have chosen).<\/p>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/2548\/oclc-kerfuffle-summarized-in-a-way-i-agree-with\/\">Librarian.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, I have been gathering my thoughts together in order to post an essay-style overview of the issues surrounding the OCLC records policy changes.\u00a0 As of now, I am going to put those thoughts aside, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/rational-and-well-thought-out-oclc-response.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2922,2925,2943,2949],"tags":[5344,3008,5360,5363,5184,5388,4084],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-copyright","category-libraries","category-oclc","tag-copyright","tag-librariannet","tag-licensing","tag-oclc","tag-oclc-records-use-policy","tag-open-source","tag-stefano-mazzocchi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Fs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}