WorldCat
Not in WorldCat?
Posted by Max on 28 January, 2008 in Blogging, OCLC, WorldCat
We all know that WorldCat is the largest bibliographic database (ugh, I hate that word!) in the world. Are there items that are NOT in the largest network of library content? This blog: Not in WorldCat shows rare and/or unusual items not found in WorldCat. There are some very obscure items out there [...]
Adding Digital Items to CONTENTdm Using Connexion
Posted by Max on 28 November, 2007 in Cataloging, Digital Libraries, Member Services, OCLC, WorldCat
Catalogers with both Connexion Client 2.0 and CONTENTdm can now add digital items to CONTENTdm during the cataloging process. Once the catalogers have added a digital file to their WorldCat record, the digital file is then added to the designated CONTENTdm collection along with its associated metadata record. For details, please [...]
Taking Another Look at the Catalog with WorldCat Identities
Posted by Max on 24 July, 2007 in OCLC, WorldCat
From an article by Thomas Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC Research: “The idea of WorldCat Identities is simple: create a summary page for every name in WorldCat. Since there are some 85 million records in WorldCat and nearly 20 million names mentioned somewhere, this is a large-scale data mining effort that would have been [...]
Social Software Enhancements for WorldCat.org!
Posted by Max on 17 June, 2007 in OCLC, WorldCat
WorldCat.org has been enhanced with a social-networking feature: Users across the Web can now add individual items cataloged in WorldCat to personalized lists. They can group items owned by your library and other WorldCat libraries, and share their lists with friends, colleagues and millions of site users. Users can add any book, video, article [...]