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WorldCat Local & World Cat Quick Start
a new way to search your library’s resources and the world beyond
which typically will include such features as:
Relevance ranking Facets “Breadcrumbs” More comprehensive searching capabilities More content Social networking tools
Why do library users want this?
Search engines are quick & easy to use.
Web-savy and have very high expectations.
OPACs are unfriendly and prefer Amazon to the library catalog.
WorldCat Local & WorldCat Local Quick Start
Delivers the resources of your library and libraries around the world in a single search.
Displays local availability of materials and integrates ILL within one search
Includes full text content from OCLC databases in a search retrieval set.
A search on “hurricane katrina” in the LTLS OPACretrieves 126 records representing books, DVDs, CDs and one sound recording.
We can limit the search by library to see which of those titles are available at Champaign PL – 70 records.
Where are these 6,000 records coming from?
WorldCat Local retrieves search results based on Champaign PL’s holdings in the
WorldCat database, Compares those results with holdings in the
OPAC, Displays titles that match along with
circulation status.
include titles available at Champaign PL (displayed first), then titles available at LTLS (displayed second), then titles held within Illinois (displayed third), and finally …
The records retrieved include traditional library materials as well as electronic content and articles indexed in WorldCat (and that accountsfor the 6,000+ records!)
The same keyword search for “hurricane katrina” in WCL at LTLS (with the Wilson Select Plus database selected) retrieves 15,671 records!
In WCL at LTLS the results set is 1,274 records. In this example, we have included the Wilson Select Plus database in order to find the full text of relevant articles as well as books and other materials.
This particular item is not held within the LTLS systemso the user is presented with the option to request the book viainterlibrary Loan.
The patron can fill out and submitan ILL request form which willbe delivered to the library’s“review file.”
Another detailed record will illustrate the variousfeatures available in WCL including subjects and similar items, “view all editions and formats,” and availability.
In this case, selecting “view all editions and formats” will present the user with 6 other versions of this title. These are identified and displayed through a process knownas FRBR (or functional requirements for bibliographicrecords).
WorldCat Local “quick start”
is a free, start up version of WCL available to most libraries* that subscribe to FirstSearch.
offers many of the features of full WorldCat Local except:
– Metasearch– Branch scoping– Statewide scoping
*(A few notes)
*Your library must run a local integrated library management system that is compatible with WorldCat Local
* If your library is part of your regional library system’s shared catalog, you will see both your library holdings and the holdings of other libraries in your system
* If your library subscribes to WilsonSelectPlus or any other full text OCLC databases, you will be able to search these databases along with WorldCat Local in one single search.
Tolono Public Library was recently set up for WCL “quick start.” Since the library subscribes to Wilson Select, their users can now search WorldCat and this full text database in one easy search.
Who Should I Contact?
Jan Ison -- [email protected]
Pat Boze -- [email protected]
Laurie Bartolini -- [email protected]
Suzanne Schriar -- [email protected]