[Web4lib] What do you know about LibDex?

[Hawk,Mickey]

Since Roy brought it up and it's relevant to this library directory discussion, I'd add that one thing that data feeds is the library profile page on WorldCat.org.  Note that I'm an OCLC guy, too. 

http://www.worldcat.org/libraries/14533?backfrom=libraryProfile&searchTerm=Eugene%20public%20library&start=1&count=10&libTypeNum=0&sortBy=rel

Mickey Hawk
Manager, Design
OCLC

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On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:16 PM, "Roy Tennant" <tennantr at oclc.org> wrote:

> In terms of this discussion of sources of library data, I also want to
> remind folks of the Institution Registry hosted by my employer. Here is the
> record for Eugene Public Library, for example:
> 
> <http://worldcat.org/registry/Institutions/14533>
> 
> Making sure such things as your online catalog information[1] are up to date
> and thorough will allow users who search WorldCat.org to link directly to a
> record for an item in your catalog to see if it is on the shelf.
> Increasingly, this data underlies a variety of services you might find
> useful. It is free and open to anyone to both search and update.
> Roy
> 
> [1] http://worldcat.org/registry/Opac/14533
> 
> On 11/8/10 11/8/10 • 2:41 PM, "Roy Tennant" <tennantr at oclc.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/8/10 11/8/10 • 11:03 AM, "HAZEL Margaret E"
>> <Margaret.E.Hazel at ci.eugene.or.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> LibDex.com purports to be a library website index, and is full of erroneous
>>> info, although it has our website address correct, and so it showed up in web
>>> hits to our site as a referral.  The address it lists for us is of an
>>> apartment building, and it lists us as being a bookmobile only.  Obviously,
>>> we
>>> can correct our info, but it's open to anyone to update, apparently, and it
>>> seems odd that it is a site registered to someone in Gibralter.   I suspect
>>> it
>>> is a way for spammers to get addresses of folks registering to update info.
>>> 
>>> Opinions?   Since someone found us this way, my impulse is to update the
>>> info,
>>> but...
>>> 
>>> -Margaret
>>> 
>>> Margaret Hazel
>>> Virtual Branch & Innovative Tech Manager
>>> Eugene Public Library
>>> Eugene, OR
>>> 541-682-6015
>>> margaret.e.hazel at ci.eugene.or.us
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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