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19 June 2005

FRBR bookmarklets

Filed under: Implementations, OCLC — William Denton @ 9:53 pm

Lorcan Dempsey, vice president and chief strategist of OCLC, mentions OCLC’s xISBN service, which is used in their FRBR bookmarklet.