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davidjoseph1 · 10-07-2025, 01:50 PM

This fork of Library Codes was created because OCLC took down their open-source web portal for sharing individual records - Classify- in the summer of 2023.

This was bewildering at the time, but now I know why.
Baker and Taylor, a book wholesaler and distributor that provides library acquisition and collections management, engaged in a four year project to steal OCLC WorldCat data to create its own cataloguing service - BTCat.

Here's the complaint from OCLC that was filed in the spring.

We were caught in the crossfire of that litigation.

10-07-2025, 01:50 PM	#37
davidjoseph1 Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 130472 Join Date: May 2011 Device: BooxM90,M92*3,M96,N96, I86ml,C67ml,Kepler, Poke2,Nova3,MaxLumi2,TabUPC	This fork of Library Codes was created because OCLC took down their open-source web portal for sharing individual records - Classify- in the summer of 2023. This was bewildering at the time, but now I know why. Baker and Taylor, a book wholesaler and distributor that provides library acquisition and collections management, engaged in a four year project to steal OCLC WorldCat data to create its own cataloguing service - BTCat. Here's the complaint from OCLC that was filed in the spring. We were caught in the crossfire of that litigation.