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The Winding Road: WorldCat Local as Discovery Tool at the University of South Florida Libraries

The Winding Road: WorldCat Local as Discovery Tool at the University of South Florida Libraries. Monica Metz-Wiseman Coordinator of Electronic Collections. New dean Cycles of innovation – back to early adopter Incredible shrinking staff. Background on “Selection”.

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The Winding Road: WorldCat Local as Discovery Tool at the University of South Florida Libraries

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  1. The Winding Road: WorldCat Local as Discovery Tool at the University of South Florida Libraries Monica Metz-Wiseman Coordinator of Electronic Collections

  2. New dean • Cycles of innovation – back to early adopter • Incredible shrinking staff Background on “Selection”

  3. Stop reinventing the OPAC wheel Why WorldCat Local?

  4. Why WorldCat Local? Benefit for our users: one search

  5. Launched as “Next Generation Catalog” Promotion of WorldCat Local

  6. WorldCat Local road map – • Relies on records in OCLC that may require record clean-up/reclamation • Local branding, control • Interoperates with circulation, ILL, link resolvers, local services, through linking and Z39.50 • Hosted service What is WorldCat Local?

  7. Not exporting records, relying on Worldcat.org • Vendor-neutral • Another approach to the “catalog” How does it differ from Summon, EBSCO EDS, etc.?

  8. Designed for users • Vendor neutral (Switzerland) • Road map - forward thinking • Richness of WorldCat content + proprietary • Referrals from web to WorldCat Local • Fast response time for searching • Mobile • Sandbox • Reasonable pricing • Web 2.0 features What we like about WorldCat Local

  9. Hard sell: public service librarians • Comparison to local catalog – features and use • Keeping up with an evolving product- beyond the launch • Connecting to full text and KB’s • Merged records and ebooks • Proprietary records, EEBO, ECCO, etc. and permissions • PDA program with EBL Where we struggle

  10. Central index vs. remote databases • Presentation of article databases from initial search – what’s in WorldCat.org? • Getting to local information fast and efficiently • Regional campus libraries • Full text coverage Where we struggle: Part II

  11. Currently, the use of our local catalog is 10:1 over WorldCat Local • Engaged in usability testing with faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students • Undergraduates’ top choice: WorldCat Local with low marks for our local discovery tool What do our users say and do?

  12. Monica Metz-Wiseman monica@usf.edu 813 974-9854 Questions?

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