Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Open WorldCat pilot [OCLC]

The April Advanced Technology Libraries reports that, "some 489,000 OCLC WorldCat records available on Google at ... press time". Wow, that's a lot -- but has it had any impact what so ever on library services or the use of libraries by traditional non-library users? Considering Google reports they have "more than 200 million" searches daily...well -- how many of these Woogle (Worldcat/Google) records have been accessed and will it help or hinder libraries? What do you think? Visit Open WorldCat pilot [OCLC] to find out more.

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