[WEB4LIB] Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective

Drew, Bill drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU
Wed Dec 1 19:37:00 EST 2004


The article misses some important things.  Public libraries are almost
entirely excluded because many do not have holdings in WorldCat.
Interesting article.  I tried several of the searches on Google.  Works
very well.  Should be interesting when combined with Google Scholar!

Bill Drew 

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> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sloan, Bernie
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:34 PM
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> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective 
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> Thought some of you might be interested in Nancy O'Neill's 
> piece on the
> Open WorldCat pilot in the November/December issue of Searcher:
> 
> O'Neill, Nancy. Open WorldCat Pilot: A User's Perspective. Searcher,
> 12(10). November/December 2004.
> http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov04/oNeill.shtml 
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
> 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
> Champaign, IL  61820
> 
> Phone: (217) 333-4895
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> E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
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