{"id":2049,"date":"2007-04-12T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=296"},"modified":"2007-04-12T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T17:24:07","slug":"worldcat-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/worldcat-local.html","title":{"rendered":"WorldCat Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/news\/releases\/200659.htm\">WorldCat Local<\/a>, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user.  These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features.<\/p>\n<p>The program will begin later this month in select areas, starting with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.washington.edu\/\">University of Washington<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t know if you have to enter library card info to access the resources, or if you can simply use a local zip code to try this out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/\">Jessamyn at Librarian.net<\/a> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarian.net\/stax\/2015\/\">very relevent post<\/a> about libraries who cannot afford to join in, and how it affects the WorldCat users in those communities.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2007\/04\/12\/oclc-to-pilot-worldcat-local\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCLC is announcing a new pilot project called WorldCat Local, intended to provide tools to help find materials close to the user. These tools will likely include circulation information, full-text capabilities for available resources, and eventually social networking features. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/worldcat-local.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":[2943,2948,2949,2951,2952,2965,2977],"tags":[3008,3408,3409],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-news","category-oclc","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-search","category-web-design","tag-librariannet","tag-social-networking-features","tag-university-of-washington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-x3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}