Google "ostis" OCLC?

hmm. Et aprillinali saabki tõeks? Asjalugude arengust saab lugeda Net-Gold grupi arhiivist:
In April Google Bought OCLC: In May OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google.
Sealt ja 23. mai Information Today'st muuhulgas järgmist:
"Librarians and library patrons can expect to see the leading library vendor bringing Google Book Search (GBS; http://books.google.com/) --on its way to becoming the worlds largest library-- to greater prominence throughout its offerings. This week, OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/) signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLCs WorldCat.org free web service(http://www.worldcat.org/) and Google Book Search. According to Chip Nilges, vice president of business development at OCLC, this formalizing of OCLCs "Find in a Library" relationship with Google Book Search, begun in 2003, marks the first step in a new initiative. By the end of FY 2009, Nilges expects OCLC to have an integrated platform "to make WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local the end-user environment for all licensed electronic products, including NetLibrary, Electronic Collections Online, and FirstSearch." All the books coming into Google Book Search from library partners will be linked through WorldCat, including public domain books available for downloading.Though the arrangement applies only to books supplied by the library partners to Google Book Search, not the publisher partners, it already covers more than 1 million books. An OCLC representative confirmed that all the libraries partnering with Google both U.S. and foreign are OCLC member libraries. Google will have access to MARC records from WorldCat. Under the new agreement, OCLC agrees to create MARC records for Google Book Search digitized content from existing records for print content in their system and will create new records for any content they do not already have. They will also add links to Google Book Search for existing records. Though no time frame was given for completing the project, Nilges didn't seem worried. Apparently the task of adding masses of catalog records is a familiar one. He didn't consider this unusually large."