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reason #231 to hate our OPAC

A coelacanth is a hollow-spined fish. So how come when you do a keyword search for coelacanth in our library catalog, the first result is: The Best women’s stage monologues of 2003 / edited by D.L. Lepidus. (NB: we do own books on coelacanths.) Also, that link will stop working real soon. That’s reason #232 to [...]

2008 06 04 ealling libraries
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more fun with library catalogs

Three interesting developments in library catalog land over the past week or so… 1. The University of Washington Libraries have just gone live with WorldCat Local. From the OCLC Newsletter: “Through a locally branded interface, the service provides libraries the ability to search the entire WorldCat database and present results beginning with items most accessible [...]

2007 05 14 ealling libraries
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