Re: [IUG] Worldcat local and your catalog (Katrina Piechnik)

["Samdahl, Don" <SamdahlDH at vmi dot edu>]

It appears to me that CCA's holding appear in Worldcat.
http://worldcat.org/oclc/8475631&tab=holdings&loc=94618#tabs and
http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/8475631?tab=holdings#tabs.  ???


Don Samdahl
Head Librarian
J.T.L. Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA 24450
540.464.7228
samdahldh at vmi dot edu



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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [IUG] Worldcat local and your catalog (Katrina Piechnik)

Did you know that searching worldcat.org will NOT retrieve holdings  
from libraries that do not subscribe to OCLC FirstSearch?

For instance, CCA, a governing OCLC member, catalogs with OCLC  
Connexion and reports its holdings to OCLC's main database. But  
because we  do not subscribe to any FirstSearch services, our  
holdings do not appear in the WorldCat "public" catalog.

I have discussed this issue with OCLC on a couple of occasions, but  
their stance is that libraries have to pay (via a FirstSearch  
subscription) in order to have their holdings retrievable via  
WorldCat.  As a small art and design library, we have no need for  
FirstSearch.

I regret that our holdings, some of which are rare or unique, are not  
accessible via WorldCat, but it is unfortunately beyond my control.

Janice Woo, Director of Libraries
California College of the Arts (CC9)
5212 Broadway Oakland CA 94618
510.594.3660 || jwoo at cca dot edu || library.cca.edu


On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:28 PM, kpiechnik at jenkinslaw dot org wrote:

> After using WorldCat local for my testing I discovered that many of  
> the
> searches done in the WorldCat are not linking correctly to library
> catalogs. Please take a minute or two to improve this issue and
> libraries reputations :-)
>
> THANK YOU very much for improving this service for all of us.
>
> Katrina Piechnik







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