{"id":1984,"date":"2007-02-13T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=229"},"modified":"2007-02-13T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T23:34:21","slug":"worldcat-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/worldcat-identities.html","title":{"rendered":"WorldCat Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orlabs.oclc.org\/Identities\/\">WorldCat Identities<\/a> is a beta site (don&#8217;t web tools all seem to be, anymore?  perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors.<\/p>\n<p>The best I can recommend is type in a few authors and see what you get.  If you can&#8217;t think of someone right off, use the tag cloud&#8230; or try <a href=\"http:\/\/orlabs.oclc.org\/SRW\/search\/NameFinder?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22stephenson,%20neal%22\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am sensing that if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/\">OCLC<\/a> were to put all of the interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/toolbox\/default.htm\">tools<\/a> it has been creating into one user-friendly mega-tool (with a few new toys to fill in the gaps), that the library world might be in for quite a shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogablog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/worldcat-identities.html\">Catalogablog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorldCat Identities is a beta site (don&#8217;t web tools all seem to be, anymore? perhaps a good thing, as continual tweaking is good for the soul, as well as a service) that is a focused search tool for authors. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/worldcat-identities.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2943,2949,2951,2952,2965,2977],"tags":[3307,3007],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","category-oclc","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-search","category-web-design","tag-beta-site","tag-search-tool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-w0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}