Archive for the 'WorldCat' Category
Calling all developers: WorldCat Hackathon
September 22nd, 2008It’s all good - “If you’re a coder-type or want to hang out with some and brainstorm some great ideas/write some great code, come to the WorldCat Hackathon”
WorldCat for iPhone
September 16th, 2008WorldCat Blog: “I don’t have an iPhone yet, but I just found (another) reason to want one: there’s now a WorldCat app developed for it”
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
March 21st, 2008WorldCat Blog - “Officially, it’s called WorldCat Identities, and its built into WorldCat.org.”
Worldcat blog
February 19th, 2008Worldcat is blogging.
PR for the Profession I Like to See
October 5th, 2007Consumerist - “WorldCat Turns You Into A Library Power User”
Great discussion in the comments about the limitations of the tool.
New WorldCat Stuff
September 20th, 2007OCLC - “OCLC continues to put social functionality into WorldCat.org in order to build a social network of the world’s library users”
Good News From WorldCat
August 24th, 2007OCLC - “National libraries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa recently agreed to load their files into the WorldCat Registry, enhancing and extending the global reach of this Web-based directory.”