{"id":2630,"date":"2009-01-11T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:51:23","slug":"why-libraries-must-reject-the-oclc-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/why-libraries-must-reject-the-oclc-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Libraries Must Reject the OCLC Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now one month away from the implementation of OCLC&#8217;s new records policy.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/thingology\/2009\/01\/why-libraries-must-reject-oclc-policy.php\"><strong>Tim Spaulding at Thingology has compiled seven arguments why libraries should resist the license<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t feel that OCLC intends to take a hard line approach towards libraries (members or not), recognize that we just don&#8217;t know who will be making specific decisions about enforcing this policy in five, ten, or twenty years.\u00a0 OCLC is not static and unchanging; they don&#8217;t have to enforce all of the terms at every moment, but those terms can be enforced in the future.<\/p>\n<p>These records will become more, not less, important over time, and the more involvement by the library community in their use and regulation, the better.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t have to agree to the license terms, and should make an effort to create agreements that are in the best interest of all concerned.<\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/why_libraries_must_reject_oclc_policy_call_action\">LISNews <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now one month away from the implementation of OCLC&#8217;s new records policy.\u00a0 Tim Spaulding at Thingology has compiled seven arguments why libraries should resist the license. Even if you don&#8217;t feel that OCLC intends to take a hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/why-libraries-must-reject-the-oclc-policy.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":[2922,2943,2945,2949],"tags":[5360,5363,5184,3791],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-libraries","category-licensing","category-oclc","tag-licensing","tag-oclc","tag-oclc-records-use-policy","tag-tim-spaulding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Gq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}