University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Online Computer Library Center's Open WorldCat Program

Nilges, Chip

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/3621

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Title
The Online Computer Library Center's Open WorldCat Program
Author(s)
Nilges, Chip
Issue Date
2006
Keyword(s)
  • Library cooperation
  • Library information networks
  • OCLC
  • Open WorldCat
  • Libraries and the World Wide Web
Abstract
This article describes the Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) Open WorldCat program. WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. Open WorldCat seeks to make library collections and services visible and available through popular search engines such as Yahoo! and Google and other heavily used sites on the open Web. In this capacity, Open WorldCat provides an important central connection between the shared information of the library network and the Web. The article describes the history and rationale of the project; explains how Open WorldCat works for information seekers, participating libraries, and partners; and reports on what OCLC has learned from the program to date.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3621
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2006 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Owning Collections

Library Trends 54 (3) Winter 2006: Library Resource Sharing Networks PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (3) Winter 2006: Library Resource Sharing Networks. Edited by Peter Webster.