News and Events OCLC partners with popular social book community weRead weRead will provide WorldCat.org with more than 2.3 million reviews, 17 million ratings and use of its recommendations engine. OCLC has partnered with weRead, a social reading site and community for book lovers, to provide valuable content on WorldCat.org, which now features weRead customer reviews alongside Amazon, Educational Media Reviews Online and original user review submissions. In addition, WorldCat.org also uses the weRead recommendations engine to make “Read By Others” suggestions for additional titles of interest on a WorldCat.org detailed record page. weRead helps people find other readers who have similar interests and provides title recommendations. It is the latest organization to join the WorldCat partners program. With one of the largest and most popular social book discovery applications on Facebook, MySpace, bebo, Hi5 and Orkut, weRead is a natural fit to partner with OCLC to enhance the social networking and user-discovery aspects of WorldCat.org, says Cindy Cunningham, Director of Partner Programs for OCLC. See also: View weRead Web site