[Yulpub] Open WorldCat enhances its display format

[Suzanne Lorimer]

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)
"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.

OCLC has fully applied the 
<http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B159:4B3BA49>FRBR conceptual model to the 
3-million-record set currently exposed through 
<http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B15A:4B3BA49>Yahoo! Search and 
<http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B15B:4B3BA49>Google, providing a deeper 
view of WorldCat and greatly flattened search results. Someone seeking 
<http://visit.oclc.org/t?ctl=111B158:4B3BA49>Harry Potter and the Prisoner 
of Azkaban 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.
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."

-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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