>OCLC must have done some market research indicating somebody was interested
>in a Local OpenWorldCat product - and you can bet that somebody in Dublin,
>OH had given more than a little thought to a full range of add-on products
>and services to offer once a library starts using "Local."
You can get some sense of the directions OCLC is going in if you just read
the agendas and minutes from the Members Council meetings, which are posted
at the OCLC web site: http://www.oclc.org/memberscouncil/meetings/
default.htm
Talk of the demise of the local opac appeared as far back as February 2006.
(see www.oclc.org/memberscouncil/meetings/2006/february/gregg_silvis.ppt)
More explicit mention of "Worldcat as local opac" appeared in the Agenda
from the May 2006 meeting: http://www.oclc.org/memberscouncil/meetings/2006/
may/200605agenda.pdf. I seem to recall listening to some of the posted
discussions about "WorldCat as OPAC."
It seems to have been the agenda for a while.
Bryan Campbell
Library Assistant
Vanderbilt University
Peabody Library
bryan.campbell_at_Vanderbilt.Edu
Received on Wed Apr 25 2007 - 15:02:47 EDT