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New Open WorldCat search tools available for download

The Open WorldCat Web site now includes information about tools that can help you more conveniently search for library materials from your PC desktop. The three tools featured on this page are:

• Yahoo! Toolbar. This special edition on the Yahoo! Toolbar provides always-there access to Open WorldCat records via Yahoo! Search, plus the full complement of Yahoo! services.

• Google Toolbar with Autolink feature. The newest version of Google Toolbar enables always-there access to Open WorldCat records through its Autolink feature. Autolink detects the presence of specific kinds of information on the current Web page and—by pressing the Autolink button on the Toolbar—links to related or lookup information for that item.

• Firefox search extensions. Add WorldCat searching to the Search Bar of the popular open-source Web browser Firefox. From an ever-present browser pane, you can enter your search terms and select the search engine to be queried.

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Study identifies key experiences that drive Web usage

A new study by the Online Publishers Association has found that an experience that “entertains and absorbs me” is the top driver of Web site usage.

The research project, the Online User Experience Study conducted in partnership with Northwestern University, identified 22 experiences that describe and define how people interact with and relate to digital media. It also determined how each of those specific experiences impacts site usage.

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Bill Moen is 2005 OCLC/LITA Kilgour Award Winner

William E. Moen of the University of North Texas is the winner of the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology for 2005. He is being recognized for his research into protocols and standards for information retrieval, and investigations into interoperability and metadata utilization, which are making important contributions to improving the ways library systems communicate.

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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Jewel Middle School
Location: North Aurora, Illinios, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILJMS
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Park School
Location: Orland Park, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILPRK
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Prairie School
Location: Orland Park, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILPRA
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 60 million bibliographic records and holdings information contributed by more than 8,600 libraries around the world. The new Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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