RESOUR> [NetGold] LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES: OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:46:21 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH:
    RESOURCES: OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google

LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES: OCLC
Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google

OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
by Barbara Quint
Search Engine Marketing or SEM Services
<http://www.search-engine-marketing-sem.com/Google_news2/news5_27.htm>
INFODAY
<http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031027-2.shtml>

"October 27, 2003  OCLC has announced to its library members that it will
begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The
project will extract a 2 million record subset from the more than 53
million records in the WorldCat database. The subset will target the most
popular and widely available books by only selecting records with a
minimum of 100 libraries holding each item. Searches on Google will
retrieve the records and link through OCLC to library holdings. The move
expands the scope of the Open WorldCat yearlong pilot project to make
library resources available from non-library Web sites and will test the
effectiveness of Web search engines in guiding users to library-owned
materials. (Details for potential participants can be found at
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/default.htm .) The Google/OCLC
connection should be active by mid- to late November.

Over 12,000 academic, public, and school libraries that have contributed
holding records or cataloging information to OCLC will automatically
participate in the program. Corporate library collections will not be
assumed to participate."

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Worldcat
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/>

"WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively
by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records
built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing
libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

WorldCat is the foundation of many OCLC services that let your library
process, manage and share information resources and let your users search
for and obtain them.

52 million quality records and counting
WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every form of
human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to
electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites. Whether an
item is physical or digitally preserved, popular or one-of-a-kind, the
integrity of its record is maintained by the input of cataloging members,
our standards and quality control.

Built by catalogers around the globe, WorldCat is the leading
bibliographic database in the world, providing libraries with an extensive
and rich source of cataloging records. This resource increases efficiency
by ensuring a high hit rate for materials of all formats."

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The RLG organization that also has an international database of books and
other materials online that is free that was the subject of a past NetGold
post.

BOOKS: RESOURCES : DATABASES: BOOKS PUBLICATIONS ONLINE CATALOGS: RLG's
RedLightGreen Project
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/message/385>

Those who use these resources will certainly find that they become all
booked up.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetGold/>
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html>
<http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html>

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