Talk:WorldCat

message: There is a proposed project to systematically link from Wikipedia biographical articles to WorldCat Identities: those interested are invited to sign up at the project proposal page! Dsp13 15:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: each institute has five libraries? sounds like a high figure to me Mathmo Talk 01:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't speak for other institutions, but I work at UC Davis where we actually have six different libraries: Medical (at UCD Med Center in Sacramento); Law; Health Sciences; Physical Sciences & Engineering; Agricultural and Resource Economics; and finally Peter J. Shields (general/main) Library (last 5 all on UC Davis campus). Jrv (talk) 22:01, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

text: The above proposed project is now archived at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Archive 2#WorldCat Identities - external links, with the last comment a suggestion it be a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats, but a search of the archives there find no mention. -84user (talk) 13:44, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: WorldCat Identities

message: I fixed the language of the article and shortened it, fewer sections. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 16:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert style 

message: I know talk pages aren't normally for questions about the subject of an article, but if we can get a source for this it would make a good addition to the article.  I've noticed that when searching Worldcat for a book from a university library computer, it shows (in gray) holdings at many private libraries, such as R&D firms and museums, which I've never seen when accessing Worldcat from anyplace else.
Is this some special feature that's only provided to educational or library users, or is there some special option under advanced search that enables this? Squidfryerchef (talk) 19:54, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure.  I know those holdings have always been in WorldCat for many years but it's only when you pointed it out now that I realized they don't show private libraries in Open WorldCat. My assumption (but I can't prove it) is that private libraries don't want to be bothered by ordinary laypersons looking for books anyway, so that's why OCLC didn't add them to Open WorldCat.  Keep in mind that WorldCat was originally intended for experienced librarians and academic researchers (who would know how to use interlibrary loan to get books or copies of relevant portions thereof out of private libraries) and Open WorldCat is a radical new direction for OCLC.  It means that libraries can help everyone find rare books more quickly.  But it also means that a lot of academic libraries are getting a lot more inquiries from a larger user population than their traditional core user populations! --Coolcaesar (talk) 05:49, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I know the worldcat.org website is a recent development but that's exactly what I'm seeing this on.  I'm talking about literally walking up to a PC in a library and opening up a web browser, not a special library database.  I don't seem to be logged into Worldcat in any sense, but the results are very different than when connecting from a non-.edu domain. Squidfryerchef (talk) 16:10, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worldcat shows private library holdings when accessed from a university library, but not from elsewhere? 

message: Is there a way to find a list of all the libraries that are part of Worldcat?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.185.130.11 (talk) 20:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of libraries 

message: Worth noting, I think, that there are other catalog-aggregators whose contents overlap with, but are not contained in, the contents of the library catalogs which together make up Worldcat (I should put it that way, since not everything in every library that's scanned by Worldcat is found by Worldcat; the Library of Congress is only partially in Worldcat, but has an "old catalog" section- a very large one- that's part of its electronic catalog but has to be viewed at its own website at loc.gov rather than seen aggregated with the rest of the LoC catalog at Worldcat. Etc.) Anyway, there's also the KVK system of collected German library catalogs ; the OPAC Catalogo SBN ; the catalogs of the Austrian National Library (which include the Sammlungen catalogs which are not generally included in Worldcat - e.g. the HANNA catalog of music publications and materials- a huge collection of information about (mostly Austrian, probably) compositions and correspondence by composers (probably hundreds more entries for some people who only have dozens outside HANNA, just to give an example :) ) - so e.g. HANNA...) - and etc. etc. - looking in national libraries in other countries (as a rule, there's a list one can prepare of such things to look at - national European libraries e.g. Budapest, Scandinavian, Prague, RSL @ Moscow etc. etc. etc. - to look through - when WorldCat is unhelpful in one's searches.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 11:06, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other aggregators 

message: It seems like this page should and/or could be merged with the main OCLC page. Anyone have thoughts or opinions on this? See OCLC#Online_database:_WorldCat -- Erika BrillLyle (talk) 00:58, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with OCLC page? 

message: - saw you deleted the addition of the OCLC template link from the See also section here. It seems like an important GLAM-Wiki tool to add to this article. If not in the See also section, do you have any suggestions on ways to possibly highlight the template? It seems like it would be a helpful addition to the page, would let editors know the tool is available and how it works with the WorldCat interface. BrillLyle (talk) 11:42, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion of template 

message: Everything is in the subject.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coulonnus (talk • contribs) 13:35, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Talk pages are not a forum for general discussion of the article subject; they are for discussing how to improve the article. It's also not clear what you mean by "adhere to". If you want to know why libraries participate in the OCLC cooperative, you can learn all about that from OCLC. If you want to know why libraries don't participate, see "An environmental scan of OCLC alternatives: a management perspective", listed in the "Further reading" section, for some reasons. Biogeographist (talk) 01:48, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do some libraries adhere to Worldcat and others don't? 

message: Thanks for adding a screenshot in your recent edit, but the second version that you uploaded seems way too long vertically. I've never before seen an infobox screenshot that is so long vertically; can you point to other examples on Wikipedia that are a precedent? If not, could we go back to the more compact horizontal version? Most people do not have a screen with such an extremely vertical aspect ratio. Biogeographist (talk) 01:04, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshot 

message: I reverted this edit because I couldn't see any connection between WorldCat and Open Library in the cited source, "Bookscanning Launch and Vision of an Open Library". The Information Today article cited in the same sentence says that WorldCat.org was a continuation of OCLC's efforts "to make library resources more visible to Web users and to increase awareness of libraries as a primary source of reliable information" after its Open WorldCat program in 2004. That's different from the Open Library project. We would need a source that explicitly connects WorldCat and Open Library in order to make what looks like a claim of a causal connection between the launches of OpenLibrary.org and WorldCat.org around the same time. Biogeographist (talk) 20:30, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edit about Open Library