WorldCat Link

The WorldCat link on Voyager will be changing next Friday from First Search to the free WorldCat.org.  This change is happening as we are discontinuing First Search. As a reminder in an earlier post this week, WorldCat Z39.50 search for ILL will also be discontinued on Thursday July 29th.

WorldCat Search Via Twitter

Found this post today: Today OCLC Innovation Lab announced a new trial service, #Ask4Stuff<http://community.oclc.org/cooperative/2010/06/sometimes-the-internet-is-just-not-big-enough-for-me.html> . It is a very simple tool for using twitter to find “stuff” within WorldCat. Here are instructions on using provided by OCLC: #Ask4Stuff is a new, Twitter-based service that returns a WorldCat search when you send a tweet with the [...]

WorldCat Introduces Single Search

Your WorldCat search experience just got better! Users can now search all of our OCLC electronic resource services. Integrated search results currently include resources from the library catalog and NetLibrary™ eBooks and eAudiobooks. The interface for WorldCat Local is similiar to Encore.  Do your search then refine it with a variety of tools which include [...]

Worldcat Mobile APP

OCLC is piloting  a WorldCat Mobile App – a program that makes collections from libraries visible through mobile devices.The WorldCat Mobile pilot allows users to search for and find books and other materials available in libraries near them through a Web application they can access from a PDA or smartphone. Created in collaboration with Boopsie, [...]

New Features in WorldCat

* WorldCat.org includes a Google Books link (both for full text and previews) when it is available. Look for the “Google Books” image on the detailed record page under “Get It.” For example, look at the left side of  The flight of the creative class : the new global competition for talent * WorldCat.org presents [...]

Did You Know?

By adding the term worldcat to your search term(s) in Google, you can bring Worldcat items that link to the holdings at your local library to the top of the results page. Try it out next time your in Google. In addition, Google Book Search http://books.google.com  has the embedded link “Find in a library” on [...]