There are tens of thousands of library patrons accessing the service, plus 50,000 free subscribers and 1,000 paying subscribers. The company continues to expand its outreach to libraries. Records arrive in libraries at the same time as library materials sent by the vendor, while the libraries holding symbols for the titles go into WorldCat. NetLibrary MARC records include a unique URL for each e-book, allowing a direct link from the catalog to the book. Under a separate agreement with netLibrary, OCLC will maintain archive copies of the e-books.
Libraries can download the records into their local online public access catalogs.
NetLibrary has also begun developing other sources and types of information. This agreement will open up free access to some existing texts from the UVA Electronic Text Center, but will also offer some texts through netLibrary s private electronic collection. This represents the first instance in which the UVA Library has released these historic texts and documents to an outside commercial entity. The focal point of the collection will be the Thomas Jefferson Letters, available now. Great works of fiction by authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, and Louisa May Alcott also will be featured.