Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Library Geeking

This is just completely and utterly cool! Before I fell into computers, I was a library technician, and this is really cool library geekdom. To wit:

The Open WorldCat pilot is an initiative that integrates library records into popular Internet search sites and tests the effectiveness of the Web in guiding users to library-owned materials. The goal of the pilot: to make libraries more visible to Web users and more accessible from the sites where many people begin to look for information.
What Web users experience
A Web user who uses Yahoo! Search, Google or other search sites to locate a particular item may be pointed to a library that owns the item based on records in WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive bibliographic database.


Edit: I'd lost track of where I'd found the link, but I found it again. Check out Library Stuff.

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