OCLC vs Baker & Taylor - legal dispute over use of WorldCat records

April 22, 2025

OCLC and US library solutions provider “Baker and Taylor” are currently engaged in a bitter war of words, claims and counter-claims regarding Baker and Taylor’s use of WorldCat records as part of their cataloguing solution BTCat. OCLC have filed a lawsuit against Baker and Taylor regarding use of WorldCat records claiming to do so encourages OCLC libraries to renege on their legal obligations.

You can read the OCLC statement on Marshall Breeding’s Library Technology Guides site and the response from Baker and Taylor to the lawsuit here.


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