Alternate discovery tools

~ i.e. not the catalog (Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Book Search, WorldCat, federated search, etc.)

Committee "experts"

Tiffany and Cathy and Pam

Resources ~ web links, articles, etc.

Next-Generation Catalogs by Marshall Breeding (Library Technology Reports 4 July/August 2007, available via many subscription databases)

Information Organization Future for Libraries by Brad Eden (Library Technololgy Reports   v. 43, Issue 6 November/December 2007, available via many subscription databases

Amazon, etc.

• The Library Lookup Project
• Hennepin County Library - Amazon Lookup  and Barnes & Noble Lookup

Library Thing

• LibraryThing for Libraries in Danbury
• LibraryThing for Libraries
• What is Tagging?

Google Book Search

• Inquiring Librarian: Google Book Search and... LCSH?

World Cat/Open World Cat

• San Mateo County Library
• Next Generation Melvyl/UC WorldCat pilot
• University of Washington Libraries WorldCat Local Beta
• WorldCat Facebook App now available 

Federated Search

Discussion points for Midwinter

• Has anyone incorporated any of these discovery tools? What has your experience been?
• Do you think it's more successful to have users to go to a discovery tool (e.g. LibraryThing) or have it come to them (e.g. Facebook apps?)
• I'm especially interested in knowing if anyone's using WorldCat without connecting it to their OPAC, as is done with WorldCat Local. We'd love to divorce our ILS, but can't without an alternative. Can WorldCat alone be our discovery tool?
• How do libraries choose which tool to use?  What are our users more likely to embrace?
• Should discovery tools always include delivery?
• What about the idea of having personalised accounts? Could a discovery tool be set up for an individual user?

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