How to live without WorldCat?
@rudibrarian wrote: We have decided to do without WorldCat rather than buy in to the new interface. Faculty aren't taking this decision well (although they aren't grasping that most of the loss they...
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@Bfister wrote: Ermmm..... we just use the free version, worldcat.org? It's somehow hooked into our authentication so it's easy to ILL from it. Am I hallucinating? Is it really as easy as that? I use...
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@rudibrarian wrote: The fact that you are a First Search subscriber gets you integrated into WorldCat.org -- both your catalog and your ILL. When we separate from WorldCat, we lose both of those...
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@Bfister wrote: Ahhhh.... forgot that wrinkle. I guess every library in Minnesota is in Worldcat because Minitex has a statewide arrangement. I had totally forgotten how I used to carp about how it...
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@lisalibrarian wrote: I answered you on FB but just to put here for everyone. We are not going without. We are scoping WCD to WC. Worldcat.org insufficient for our users. Read full topic
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@stephenfrancoeur wrote: We're going to switch over from the FirstSearch interface to the new one eventually (here's ours). I'm confused by the OCLC Service Configuration options, though. I don't want...
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@stephenfrancoeur wrote: I may have gotten an answer (thanks Twitter friends!) It looks l like removing WorldCat.org as one of the databases does the trick (i.e., removes MEDLINE and other article...
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@stephenfrancoeur wrote: Well, that did remove MEDLINE results, but it also removed the book results I expected to find. Adding WorldCat.org back in among the databases searched brought the book...
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@RachelW wrote: *cringes a little about MEDLINE in Primo * Read full topic
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@stephenfrancoeur wrote: I'm confused again by WorldCat. Which is the version that is supposed to replace our ArticleFirst interface: This one http://baruchcollege.worldcat.org/ Or that one...
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@Bfister wrote: Just to show you how completely unsophisticated I am, I use worldcat to ILL books we don't have (or I just go there and am pleasantly surprised to see we have a book). I don't use it...
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@stephenfrancoeur wrote: Yeah, we just want it for tracking down books in the wider world. I've figure out how to make the articles go away finally. Read full topic
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@rudibrarian wrote: We have decided to do without WorldCat rather than buy in to the new interface. Faculty aren't taking this decision well (although they aren't grasping that most of the loss they...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@Bfister wrote: Ermmm..... we just use the free version, worldcat.org? It's somehow hooked into our authentication so it's easy to ILL from it. Am I hallucinating? Is it really as easy as that? I use...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@rudibrarian wrote: The fact that you are a First Search subscriber gets you integrated into WorldCat.org -- both your catalog and your ILL. When we separate from WorldCat, we lose both of those...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@Bfister wrote: Ahhhh.... forgot that wrinkle. I guess every library in Minnesota is in Worldcat because Minitex has a statewide arrangement. I had totally forgotten how I used to carp about how it...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@lisalibrarian wrote: I answered you on FB but just to put here for everyone. We are not going without. We are scoping WCD to WC. Worldcat.org insufficient for our users. Read full topic
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@stephenfrancoeur wrote: We're going to switch over from the FirstSearch interface to the new one eventually (here's ours). I'm confused by the OCLC Service Configuration options, though. I don't want...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@stephenfrancoeur wrote: I may have gotten an answer (thanks Twitter friends!) It looks l like removing WorldCat.org as one of the databases does the trick (i.e., removes MEDLINE and other article...
View ArticleHow to live without WorldCat?
@stephenfrancoeur wrote: Well, that did remove MEDLINE results, but it also removed the book results I expected to find. Adding WorldCat.org back in among the databases searched brought the book...
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