Last Friday I had a nice conversation with Renee Register, Senior Product Manager with OCLC‘s Cataloging and Metadata Services.  Renee and I discussed OCLC’s new publisher metadata service and the contract cataloging for publishers service. More information can be found at publishers.oclc.org which is a microsite to discuss the new services provided by OCLC. Renee [...]

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From an OCLC press release: OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers
to enhance title metadata for use in the supply chain Service makes publisher metadata available to libraries earlier in selection, acquisition and technical services process DUBLIN, Ohio, October 14, 2009—OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers’ ONIX title metadata, [...]

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