In case you hadn’t heard, OCLC has bought EZProxy: http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2008/01/oclc_the_google_of_the_library.html . I’m probably the last one in the world to find out. Read more about it at the Library 2.0 blog which, incidentally, is going away. I’m so sad. This was one of my favorite blogs.
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Here’s a university library that is using a Wiki as a major part of its library website:
http://aurlibrary.wetpaint.com/
They are also using Koha open source library catalog. The site could use a little polishing, but I highly applaud the ingenuity and resourcefulness in creating this site!
Rhonda
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On closer inspection, it seems that WorldCat identities is a more Web 2.0 gateway into the WorldCat Beta site. It arranges materials by “identities” which include authors, named subjects, and more. But once you whittle down to a “work”, you are linked into WorldCat.org Beta.
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In an earlier post I mentioned the OCLC test site called WorldCat Identities. Today while searching Google Scholar, I found myself in the free worldcat.org beta site. If you haven’t searched this free site lately, you should take a look. To compare it with my earlier post, here’s a link to the page for Tolkien’s [...]
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Ok, so everyone else already knows about WPopac (now called Scriblio) but me. Nevertheless, I am excited to have discovered it today. Here is what ALA Techsource says by way of explanation. Casey, you the man!
ALA TechSource | Unsucking the OPAC: One Man’s Noble Efforts
“WPOPAC doesn’t attempt to replace the integrated library system (ILS)—just complement [...]
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In his blog, The Travelin’ Librarian, today Michael Sauers wrote about a library in Arizona that is doing away with classification numbers altogether, opting instead to shelves books by topic. I think I got that right! As one person commented, don’t they know the Dewey Decimal System arranges books by topic? Hellooooo? Sorry for lapsing [...]
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I have played with the site some more. One bug they need to fix involves the searching of my local library. Although my library has the title listed and my library is the top location on the list, when I click on my library’s name, the search of our catalog does not produce a result. [...]
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On the listserv, NGC4LIB, I ran across a link to a new OCLC service called WorldCat Identities http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/. Wow! Maybe you’ve all seen this already, and I’ve just crawled out from under my rock, but I am definitely impressed. Now that’s what I call a catalog. If they would just give us the ability to [...]
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