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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


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