OCLC is beginning a major new initiative to expose the data contributed to WorldCat by member libraries in useful new ways By Don Hamparian and Roy Tennant · http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/011/research.htm

But, now more than ever, OCLC must end its attempts to restrict and monopolize library data. It was ugly and unfair for OCLC to claim ownership over what is largely public data. It is obscene to leverage that data monopoly into a software monopoly. · http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2009/04/oclc-end-game.php

Ohio leg · http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/06/oclcs-non-profit-status.php

Presented by Karen Calhoun at the ALCTS Forum, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver CO, 26 January 2009. Discusses community norms and policies for sharing the data that supports the discovery and delivery of library collections; places these in the context of the broader data sharing environment outside libraries; and analyzes the process and rationale for revising OCLC's Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of Records. · http://www.slideshare.net/amarintha/creating-and-sustaining-communities-around-shared-data-the-case-of-oclc-presentation