[Yulpub] OpenWorldCat embraces elements of Amazon and Wikipedia

[Suzanne Lorimer]

Many of you probably saw the 
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/usercontent/default.htm>OCLC<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/usercontent/default.htm> 
message several weeks ago announcing that it was now possible to add "user 
content" to records for books that appear in OpenWorldCat.   You can see 
how this looks and works in reality by typing brady islandbridge into 
Google or Yahoo and looking for the link that begins Find in a 
Library.  The link will take you to a record that shows what libraries hold 
the book (under the Libraries tab), a Details tab that allows anyone to add 
Table of Contents information or factual Notes, and a Reviews tab which 
accepts reader reviews of the book.  The review of this book was 
contributed by OCLC's Lorcan Dempsey.

-Sue

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
Research Services and Collections Department
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527
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