[Web4lib] google & library catalogs

[Andrew Cunningham]

Alternatively. add site:www.worldcatlibraries.org to the search term 
instead.

Andrew

Jim Cody wrote:
> I already replied off-list to Chris but maybe other
> people are not aware of this.
> 
> If you search Google using the bound phrase "find in a
> library" (in quotes) and a title or author, it will
> bring the Open WorldCat results close to the top. 
> Then   if you click on one of those results you go
> into Open WorldCat, where you can enter your zip code
> and get a list of the closest libraries holding that
> item.
> 
> It's easy to use, except for the part about the "find
> in a library" bound phrase, which only a librarian
> would know.  I use this all the time at my public
> library job to refer people to other libraries when we
> don't have something.
> 
> Here's OCLC's explanation page:
> http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/how/default.htm
> 
> But it's easier just to try it yourself.
> 
> Jim Cody, Burbank PL
> 
> --- Chris Stearns <stearcs at auburn.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yeah, that would suck if everyone did it because the
>>world's Googlers 
>>are looking for the info itself. For the most part,
>>they want the text 
>>of Hamlet, not a record for my library's Hamlet
>>holdings (much less 
>>20,000!).
>>
>>If there were a way to specify via Google that
>>you're searching for 
>>Hamlet holdings at any library within 30 miles of
>>you, then let Google, 
>>Google Maps, etc. find it all for you then spit out
>>directions and the 
>>reference librarian's name, that might be kinda
>>cool, but it would have 
>>to be one of those "tucked-away" Google features
>>that you have to 
>>specifically call and which isn't enabled by
>>default, else the 20,000 
>>Hamlets (and having studied Hamlet for an entire
>>semester in grad 
>>school, 1 hamlet is definitely enough :-)
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Chris Stearns
>>Software/Programming
>>Auburn University Libraries
>>http://www.lib.auburn.edu
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