OCLC Representative will explain the ins and outs of WorldCat Local, give a demonstration of the product, and be available to answer questions about the product's resource sharing component.

WorldCat Local builds on WorldCat.org, by providing Web access to the world's richest database for discovery of materials held in libraries. The service offers Web-based WorldCat.org features designed for the end user such as cover art, faceted browse capability, evaluative content, result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record, citation formatting options and relevancy ranking of search results-all configured for a local view of the home library.

WorldCat Local will offer libraries the ability to search the entire WorldCat database with results displaying items that are most accessible to the library user-such as collections from the home library, collections shared in a consortium and open access collections-all through a single search box in a locally branded interface. The service interoperates with locally maintained services like circulation, resource sharing and resolution to full text to create a seamless experience for the end user. WorldCat Local will also include future enhancements to WorldCat.org including social networking services.

Libraries and groups participating in the WorldCat Local pilot include: University of Washington, Ohio State University Libraries, 12 libraries in the Peninsula Library System in California, and 11 multitype libraries in Illinois. See the University of Washington's implementation at http://uwashington.worldcat.org.

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