15 Trends to Watch in 2008 – 1/7/2008 3:00:00 AM – Publishers Weekly
via AL Direct – “Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Make-your-own books have been creeping into public consciousness for a couple of years: …auth
Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
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Vendor-prompted cataloging [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]
“Publishers and material vendors: Partner with OCLC and offer your customers a unique value-added service that will get you noticed. Our four vendor-prompted cataloging programs (below) enable your customers to obtain corresponding WorldCat bibliographic
About [OCLC - PromptCat]
“PromptCat provides cataloging records for new materials that can be ready to shelve the moment you receive them. OCLC works with leading library partners to automate this process. Best of all, your holdings are added to WorldCat, the bibliographic databa
Amazon is new OCLC PromptCat participant [OCLC]
“DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 September 2006—Amazon.com is now an OCLC PromptCat participant, making it possible for libraries to receive OCLC MARC records along with the materials they get from the online vendor including books, music, DVDs and more.”
PromptCat [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
“Participating partners send OCLC electronic lists that identify the books, videos and other materials you’ve ordered. PromptCat then matches the items to bibliographic records in WorldCat, adds local data to records, sets holdings in WorldCat and provide
Vendor record contribution [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]
“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea
Cataloging partners program [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
“Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea
Tag Archive for 'worldcat'
The new WorldCat.org is a significant step forward. I am especially impressed with the efficient permanent urls (isbn/isbnnumber and oclc/oclcnumber) and the faceted browsing offered on the left of the results screen. Additionally, I like the breadcrumb trail that accompanies the faceted browsing. I am also impressed with the search speed and the simplicity of the interface. They have also describe a number of ways to integrate WorldCat into one’s browsing habits and websites. I look forward to seeing results appearing in search engine results. Overall, it seems like a significant step forward, but I need to look at it more carefully later.
