[Web4lib] Re: Homepage links to WorldCat, WorldCat.org, Google

[Sarah Berndt]

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>Dear John,
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    Out of a 14 region statewide network several, including my region,  
link their library homepage to WorldCat.  Starting last fall, many of 
the regions put the Google Scholar search box up as well.  We've just 
put it on to evaluate the effects on database searching.  Although our 
holdings are linked to GScholar, I don't know (yet) if it's effective.  
There's a good article that's worth your time: "Google Scholar and the 
Library Web Site: The Early Response by ARL Libraries 
<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues2006a/marcha/Mullen06.pdf>" 

    Good luck,
    Sarah Berndt

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>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:44:46 -0700
>From: John Kupersmith <jkup at jkup.net>
>Subject: [Web4lib] Homepage links to WorldCat, WorldCat.org, Google
>	Scholar?
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>MPOW is considering whether to add links to WorldCat (or WorldCat.org) 
>and Google Scholar from our library homepage.
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>I'd like to hear from libraries that have links at the *homepage* level 
>to any of these systems, and would be glad to post a list of libraries 
>that do this.
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>Also, if you have comments on how well it's worked to link to these from 
>the homepage - success stories or unintended consequences - please feel 
>free to add those (and indicate whether it's OK to share with the list).
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>--jk
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