[WEB4LIB] OCLC WorldCat access via abebooks

[gprice]

Jerry:
Here is the official announcement from Abebooks:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/TextToHtml?t=Media+Room&h=x&f=abemedia/pressbox/2002/17012002.htm

ALSO: OCLC made the same deal with Alibris, another online used book 
service, this past October.
Details via my blog,  The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk:
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/2001_10_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#6461460

cheers,
gary



At 09:57 PM 2/1/02, Jerry Kuntz wrote:
>Discovered this at the blog Boing Boing:
>
>"Library census. Amazon salesrankings are interesting, but what about the 
>noncommercial world of library shelves? Wouldn't it be cool to discover 
>which libraries are holding onto how many copies of your favorite books? 
>The Online Computer Library Center provides just such a search -- for a 
>fee. However, Abebooks (an online antiquarian and rare book-search 
>service) has a free back-door into the service. Here's how it works: Go to 
>this site and enter a search for a title that isn't in any of Abebooks' 
>members' catalogs. You'll be presented with a link that activates a 
>back-door search of the OCLC's library database, which returns a list of 
>all the American libraries that have a copy on their shelves. Complicated, 
>but cool."
>
>Not complicated, really, but cool! Can you think of a better free 
>verification resource? [By the way, you can try author Kuntz, title 
>Kidsclick as an example ;-)]
>
>
>
>--
>Jerry Kuntz
>Electronic Resources Consultant
>Ramapo Catskill Library System
>jkuntz at rcls.org
>
>--

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