OCLC E-Resource Server Pilot Project: LEARN MORE ABOUT IT (webcast)
April 25, 2007 at Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison
9:30a.m.-12:00 p.m. (Powerpoint slides)

Presenters: Tim McCormick, OCLC

OCLC E-Resource Server Pilot Project - LEARN MORE ABOUT IT E-Resource Server (ERS) is an OpenURL link-server system being developed for library consortia, and integrated with OCLC's other Group Services offerings, including Worldcat.org. ERS addresses the need of library consortia to provide efficiently managed, highly user-accessible, online access to shared resources such as full-text e-journals. Adding a consortia-wide link-server capability will allow any member institution's e-resources to be discovered and linked to from any other resource that supports OpenURL linking -- such as FirstSearch, Google Scholar, Pubmed, Ebsco, Gale, etc. Wisconsin BadgerCat participants have been invited to be part of the pilot
 
Remote Option: the session will be webcast. You need a web browser and windows media player, version 9 or later. Please note: remote attendees will ask questions through text messaging.

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Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org: How can they help my library provide services to patrons (webcast)

April 25, 2007 at Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison
1:30-3:00 p.m. (Powerpoint slides)

Presenters: Doug Loynes, OCLC

Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org are both unique and essential programs that puts links to library content and services on popular Web sites. The Open WorldCat program makes records of library-owned materials in OCLC's WorldCat database available to Web users on popular Internet search, bibliographic and bookselling sites, including Google, Yahoo! Search and Windows Live Academic. Links to content in library collections-books, videos, serials, digital images and many other formats-appear alongside links to traditional Web content. The result is that WorldCat-participating libraries are more visible on the Web, and their collections are more accessible from the sites where many people start their search for information. Libraries get greater exposure to information-seekers and increased use of their online catalog, electronic content and other Web-based services.

WorldCat.org continues OCLC's efforts-begun with the Open WorldCat program-to make library resources more visible to Web users, and to increase awareness of libraries as a primary source of reliable information and helpful personal assistance. Where Open WorldCat inserts "Find in a Library" results within regular search engine results, WorldCat.org provides a permanent destination page and search box that lets a broader range of people discover the riches of library-held materials cataloged in the WorldCat database. The main attraction of the site is the WorldCat search box, which allows Web users to search the entire WorldCat database with the method most familiar to them: simple keywords. Search results in this public view of WorldCat are generated directly on WorldCat.org, instead of through Google or Yahoo! Search. Just as in Open WorldCat, each linked search result leads to the WorldCat information page for an individual item. There the user can enter geographic information, receive a list of nearby WorldCat libraries that own the item, and link right to a library's online catalog record to initiate circulation activity or access electronic content directly. From WorldCat.org, any Web user or organization can easily install a free modularized version of the WorldCat.org search box on their personal or commercial Web page, allowing even more people to discover WorldCat library content. Libraries inside and outside the OCLC cooperative are encouraged to add the box to their sites so information seekers can optionally expand their search beyond locally-held items to all of WorldCat.
 
Remote Option: this session will be webcast also. You need a web browser and windows media player, version 9 or later. Please note: remote attendees will ask questions through text messaging.

 

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