Chapter 2: Why WorldCat Local? “Web Scale” Discovery and Delivery of Library Resources

Jennifer L Ward, Steve Shadle, Pam Mofjeld

Abstract


The University of Washington Libraries, in collaboration with OCLC, began a pilot project that resulted in the creation and launch of a new discovery and delivery platform called WorldCat Local. It enables users to search what were previously three separate catalogs as well as five article databases. The search interface is simple, which research has shown that users prefer.


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