http://www.librarian.net/stax/2235/speaking-of-worldcat/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2235/speaking-of-worldcat/comment-page-1/#comment-113390 DaleA Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:33:34 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2235/speaking-of-worldcat/#comment-113390 The items not in WorldCat could fill another WorldCat, most likely. While explaining the OCLC database to a German researcher friend the other day, it struck me how it is still very, very Amero/Anglocentric. Sure, there are many non-North American libraries represented, but they are still a trifling compared to the massive amounts of cataloged material still undocumented in WorldCat. Too often, in the US, the criticism of the OCLC database focuses on titles in the NUC that never made it to the new age. They, too, are trifling compared to the data in catalogs in scores of countries 'undiscovered' by OCLC. The items not in WorldCat could fill another WorldCat, most likely. While explaining the OCLC database to a German researcher friend the other day, it struck me how it is still very, very Amero/Anglocentric. Sure, there are many non-North American libraries represented, but they are still a trifling compared to the massive amounts of cataloged material still undocumented in WorldCat. Too often, in the US, the criticism of the OCLC database focuses on titles in the NUC that never made it to the new age. They, too, are trifling compared to the data in catalogs in scores of countries ‘undiscovered’ by OCLC.

]]> http://www.librarian.net/stax/2235/speaking-of-worldcat/comment-page-1/#comment-113368 genevieve Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:17:17 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2235/speaking-of-worldcat/#comment-113368 Thanks for the links to the slow folk, Jess. I needed that today! I'm reading too damn fast :-) Thanks for the links to the slow folk, Jess. I needed that today! I’m reading too damn fast :-)

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