RLUK_Mike: That's all folks! Thanks v. much 2 Michael Emly & Alison Faraday, & all our speakers today (especially given the train situation!) #rluksafe
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RLUK_Mike: David Prosser - other major themes, adapting the #UKRR for monographs, addressing a digital surrogate register for the UK #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: RT @speccollbrad: Hard at work on #rluk #oclc survey - I'm commenting on #borndigital bit - well, I like a challenge!
RLUK_Mike: David Prosser: some key themes - the necessity not just the choice of collaboration; advocacy; evidence (metadata & case studies) #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: Would a next generation solution be 2 rapidly digitize title pages & use visual pattern recognition 2 deduplicate our collections? #rluksafe
RLUK_Mike: How should we take the #rluksafe work forward: can we expect a top-down model or are we the community the likely operative force here?
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Joint Press Release from the British Library and the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL)
The British Library and the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) are delighted to announce that from 17 June 2002 the British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) will be accessible online, free of charge, from COPAC
http://copac.ac.uk
COPAC is an online union catalogue, hosted at MIMAS, which gives free access to the merged catalogues of 22 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Now that the British Library has become a full member of CURL and the BLPC has been added to COPAC, COPAC users will have free online access, via a single search interface, to more than 20 million catalogue records, which they can search simultaneously by title, author or subject.
The National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru have also become full members of CURL and their records will be available via COPAC within the next twelve months. Meanwhile their catalogues can be searched simultaneously with the COPAC database, which also includes the BLPC, using the experimental version COPAC V3.
More details about the content of the BLPC can be found at
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/blpc.html.
More information about CURL and MIMAS can be found on their respective web sites at
http://www.curl.ac.uk and
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