[WEB4LIB] RE: Yahoo-OCLC toolbar

[Jim Campbell]

And if you feel capable of and empowered to add linking to your library's
catalog in Open WorldCat, there's a form for doing that at
https://www3.oclc.org/app/openwc/


Also, I nagged myself into submitting an Open WorldCat engine for Firefox
mycroft. If you'd like it now (mycroft submissions are rather backed up),
it's at
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/indexes/googleworldcat.src
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/indexes/googleworldcat.gif

or you can make your own. It's just the Google engine with a 2nd query for
site:worldcatlibraries.org  I tried the various options menitoned in the
O'Neill article and that seemed to work best.
 
- Jim Campbell
 
Digital Access Coordinator and
Librarian for German
University of Virginia Library
Voice: 434-924-4985
E-Mail: Campbell at Virginia.Edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew I. Mutch
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:10 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Yahoo-OCLC toolbar
> 
> My understanding of this, and it seems to be confirmed by 
> testing, is that this is dependent on whether your library or 
> library system has enabled this feature in WorldCat as Jim 
> Campbell previously stated. As noted in the O'Neill article, 
> if a search doesn't take you to the individual record in the 
> catalog (assuming the record exists), your library hasn't set 
> up this feature in WorldCat or your system doesn't support 
> these kinds of searches. Either problem is something that 
> needs to be resolved on the library's side of the search, not at OCLC.
> 
> I agree that being dumped at a library's catalog search 
> screen isn't very helpful from a staff users perspective. But 
> from a patron perspective, this may get them to that catalog 
> search screen much more quickly than if they were forced to 
> find that resource on their own. 
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Monica Ruck's complaint about not being plunked right into 
> your chosen 
> > library's OPAC record for the title you see on the Open 
> WorldCat site 
> > is a well-known issue that OCLC says it's working on 
> resolving. This 
> > problem also exists with the RedLightGreen service from RLG 
> (see Nancy 
> > O'Neill's excellent article in the November/December issue 
> of Searcher 
> > on her tests of the Open WorldCat Pilot; 
> > http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov04/oNeill.shtml). Monica's 
> > conclusion is the same one Nancy and others came to, that 
> while both 
> > Open WorldCat and RedLightGreen services are great middleware, the 
> > inconsistent end results leave one no better off than if 
> you were to 
> > directly search your own library's OPAC. What's also of 
> interest to me 
> > is that neither of these services offers the accuracy of a 
> Z39.50 search.
> > 
> > The other question here is why is it taking Google so long 
> to respond 
> > with some kind of similar tool or innovation from their 
> partnership with OCLC?
> > 
> > David Mattison
> > Victoria, BC, Canada
> > dmattison at shaw.ca
> > Tiki Wiki Hut: http://www.davidmattison.ca/tiki Ten Thousand Year 
> > Blog: http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Monica Ruck
> > Sent: November 17, 2004 6:40 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Yahoo-OCLC toolbar
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Thanks for posting the info on the new Yahoo-OCLC toolbar. 
> Has anyone 
> > tried it out yet?
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>