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Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: OCLC
“You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”
OCLC and Google are exchanging parts of their data in a way that will likely change the way we view full-text scanned books: Google is providing linking information to OCLC in order to make Google Book Search items discoverable through … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Library 2.0, News, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Web Design
Tagged Google
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WorldCat and Digital Images Collections
Go to WorldCat and type in a search. The results contain books, video, audio, you name it. One of the more recent additions is the Digital Images Collections, which can be wonderful to view. How to find them, though? Type … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Photography, Search
Tagged search terms
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Berkeley Accord
ILS Basic Discovery Interfaces, a.k.a the Berkeley Accord In what may turn out to be a historically significant event in the history of library tech, a group called the ILS Discovery Task Force has generated an outline detailing what amounts … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OCLC, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged API, California Digital Library, Eric Leese Morgan, html, ILS Discovery Task Force, Innovative Interfaces Inc, Internet Explorer, online search tool, Polaris Library Systems, Search, search technology
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BookChaser Editions Lookup
BookChaser Editions Lookup is an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) lookup service with a twist : it obtains information from the amazingISBN, thingISBN and xISBN services and displays them, all for the purpose of letting the user compare and contrast … Continue reading
Posted in Books, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, xISBN
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MARC Tags and WorldCat Stats
Here are some interesting statistics regarding MARC tag usage in WorldCat records, according to Karen Smith-Yoshimura at OCLC’s RLG Programs: Only 27 tags are used in more than 10% of WorldCat records. 52 tags are are used in 1% to … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Karen Smith-Yoshimura
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Diffusion and Concentration in Web 2.0
Lorcan Dempsey of OCLC has a great post that differentiates Web 2.0 (and by doing so, Library 2.0) into two types of applications, those that diffuse information to users, and those that concentrate information from users. I won’t go into … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Library 2.0, OCLC, Web Design
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Bibliographic Formats and Standards
Bibliographic Formats and Standards is an OCLC resource that provides information about Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) records. It is geared towards WorldCat records, but should be a great reference for anyone with MARC questions. from Kristen on the SERIALST list
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, OCLC
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EZProxy Find and Replace
If you don’t like something about one of your web interfaces, and if you are running EZProxy, you can use a “Find and Replace” feature to replace any part of the web page code with whatever you would like in … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, OCLC, Software, Web Design
Tagged library web server, web interfaces, web page code, web server
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OCLC acquires EZProxy
EZProxy, the proxy server created by a librarian for libraries, has been acquired by OCLC. OCLC has been doing some interesting things in the past couple of years… and indications are they will be doing even more in the next … Continue reading
Monopolies, Libraries, and Challenges
A somewhat rambling essay, but one that is important nonetheless: Joe Wilcox has posted an interesting essay at Microsoft Watch regarding Google’s merger with DoubleClick, the internet advertising company. I strongly disagree with some of his interpretations (he tries to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Libraries, News, OCLC, WebSearch
Tagged Amazon, compliant web site design, DoubleClick, energy, Google, internet advertising, Joe Wilcox, keyword search, Microsoft, natural language search engines, Search, search tools, Web Design
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LC and Open Data
Read this post on Thingology, the blog for LibraryThing, then check out the OpenBibliographicData petition on the Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki. If you agree with the petition, I urge you to create an account and add your name to the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Cataloging, Libraries, OCLC, Open Access, Open Source, Wiki
Tagged Open Knowledge Foundation
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Projects and Time Management
No brand new flashy sites in this post; just a small collection of links on how one deals with the demands of time, projects and learning: Big or Small? — Jen Riley at the Indiana University Digital Library Program has … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Education, OCLC, Training
Tagged energy, Indiana University, Jen Riley, Karen Schneider, Roy Tennant
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Roy Tenant at OCLC
Roy Tenant, formerly of the California Digital Library has been working for OCLC’s RLG Programs division for the past few weeks, and has posted his impressions on the hangingtogether blog. It is well worth reading, and especially to note that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, OCLC, Online Services
Tagged California Digital Library, Roy Tenant
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WorldCat Local
OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Librarian.net, social networking features, University of Washington
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Google/OCLC news
Big news today in the announcement that Google has acquired OCLC. What will this mean for libraries? The merging of the Google Books Project and Worldcat, for starters. The library blogs are all over this story, so I will simply … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged Bush administration, Google, Google Books Project, Library Garden, OCLC, Worldcat
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WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don’t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, OCLC, Online Databases, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged beta site, search tool
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Link Evaluator
Link Evaluator is a Firefox extension (now being called “add-ons”) provided by OCLC that, as the name suggests, evaluates the links on a web page using a color-coded system. from Catalogablog
Posted in OCLC, Open Source, Software, Web Design
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