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An announcement from OCLC about enhancements to its Open WorldCat display
(be sure to follow the link from the Harry Potter title to really see the
new display)
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<dd>"The display of WorldCat records in the Open WorldCat program
has been simplified to help people locate specific versions of a title
more quickly. Web users who reach the "Find in a Library"
interface from partner search engines now see consolidated results for
different formats of a source work.<br><br>
<dd>OCLC has fully applied the
<a href="http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B159:4B3BA49">FRBR</a> conceptual
model to the 3-million-record set currently exposed through
<a href="http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B15A:4B3BA49">Yahoo! Search</a>
and <a href="http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B15B:4B3BA49">Google</a>,
providing a deeper view of WorldCat and greatly flattened search results.
Someone seeking
<a href="http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B158:4B3BA49"><i>Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban</a></i> in a library, for example, sees a single
Find in a Library record for that workwith all formats listed together
under the Editions tab, by order of most widely heldinstead of separate
records that must be individually evaluated for format.<br>
<dd>And after a user has entered a geographic location, the list of
nearby libraries that own the work now displays iconic representations of
the formats each library owns. (Icons link directly to a library's
corresponding catalog record for that format.) In the consolidated record
list, users can also limit the display of libraries to just those that
own the desired format."<br><br>
</dl>-Sue<br><br>
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Suzanne Lorimer<br>
Coordinator of Research Services<br>
Research Services and Collections Department<br>
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
130 Wall Street<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
(phone) 203-432-8371 (fax) 203-432-8527<br>
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"In the Information Economy everything is plentiful - except
attention."<br>
<font size=2>Bruce Sterling, Speech to the Library Information
Technology Association, 1992<br>
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