1. The Future of the Catalog: WorldCat Local
Michael Boock
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

2. What I’ll Cover What is WorldCat Local? What makes it different?
What does it do well and not so well?
What are the concerns with this approach?
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

3. What is WorldCat Local?
Localized version of OCLC’s Worldcat.org – the union catalog of member library holdings
Now includes article citations
Works with local circ system and catalog, ILL, consortial resource sharing, local link resolver
Searches and displays holdings of local library(ies) as well as the entirety of WorldCat
3 tiers – home library holdings, consortial holdings, all of worldcat
UW pilot -
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

4. How is this better? No local OPAC necessary for search
Better search, better retrieval
Nice interface
Nice value added features
Includes all of WorldCat
Benefits from continuing work of the OCLC/RLG team
More network availability of cataloged resources – Syndication and Integration
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

5. Current Generation S/R Functionality
Relevance ranking - Yes
Faceted browsing – Yes
Tagging - No
Reviewing – Yes
Cover art – Yes
Alerts - No
Recommendations - people who borrowed this, also borrowed – No
Did you mean?/spell check and automatic correction stemming – No, not yet anyway
Sorting - by popularity, librarian and user recommendations, ratings, currently available, locally available – No
Search visualization- Aquabrowser, Grokker – No
Citation exporting – Not really
Purchase options - Yes
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

6. What does it not include?
Only includes what is in WorldCat
Not all records
Not all bibliographic data
WorldCat Local, OSU, May

7. Other concerns Not (yet?) open, no API Loss of local control
OCLC reliance
Pay to Play
WorldCat Local, OSU, May