Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced that it will host the Global Books Webinar on September 16, 2010, at 12 pm EDT. Post-Doctoral researcher Timothy J. Dickey will present an overview of an OCLC Research data mining project that looks at WorldCat data to reveal transnational patterns in literary publishing, the preservation of individual countries' literary heritage, and the cultural diversity present in the books.
For the global cultural diversity project, researchers considered the overall annual publishing for every country of the world, the libraries that collect and even import a country's works, the 'foreign' monographs their libraries import, and the proportion of publications in various official and native languages. These efforts produced a rich data portrait of the global literary arts (as reflected library records in the WorldCat database), with emphasis on cultural literary heritage by country and region and includes a wealth of case studies in single countries' practices in both literary publishing and the preservation of their literary heritage.
Webinar participation is free but advanced registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and made available on the OCLC website and in iTunes.
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