National Library of Sweden Rejects OCLC Record-sharing Terms

In as direct and unflinching an account as you are likely to see from a library, Sweden’s LIBRIS nationella bibliotekssystem explains 3 reasons why OCLC WorldCat terms don’t really work for them:
http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2012/04/19/clarification-regarding-worldcat-membership-2/

Tip o’ the hat to the cluegiver Magnus Elder, who asks of Norway’s BIBSYS whether their assessment is based on the same constraints or not.

About Joe Atzberger

Joe Atzberger (atz) is a library hacker in Palo Alto, CA. He worked with Galen at both LibLime and Equinox Software, Inc. as an open source developer on Koha and Evergreen. Joe currently works on Hydra and institutional digital repository infrastructure at Stanford.

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