Pages tagged worldcat:

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books

Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search.
Finding a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search. But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case
Yet there is an alternative that few people seem aware of: Worldcat (worldcat.org), which offers web access to the largest repository of bibliographic data in the world - from the 40-year-old Ohio-based non-profit Online Computer Library Center (oclc.org). But Worldcat suffers from the same problem on a larger scale.
Maelstrom Over Metadata :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/14/worldcat
A debate is carrying on in the undercurrents of the academic Web, pitting those who defend libraries' core mission of open access against the membership organization that collects and operates a massive online catalog on which many of them rely.
"A debate is carrying on in the undercurrents of the academic Web, pitting those who defend libraries’ core mission of open access against the membership organization that collects and operates a massive online catalog on which many of them rely."
OCLC and the blog-o-sphere