OCLC Opens WorldCat Pilot

Courtesy of Eileen Deegan at IIP/G/IR:



I wanted to bring your attention to an item -- "OCLC Opens WorldCat Pilot

Project" -- in the March/April Fedlink Technical Notes newsletter that was

just posted online at -- http://www.loc.gov/flicc/pubs/tn0403.pdf.



This article outlines the current project in which OCLC has given Google

2,000,000 abbreviated WorldCat records. This means that by searching

Google, anyone can find out which libraries own each of those 2,000,000

books. The article is especially useful because it tells you what syntax to

use to search the WorldCat records on Google. The article says the pilot

project ends June 2004, and OCLC will decide whether to implement an ongoing

service on Google. I found it interesting to try out.



Regards,

Eileen