On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Tim Spalding <tim_at_librarything.com> wrote:
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> With due respect, and with fanatical love for Athenaea like yours—I've
> belonged to two(1)—why on earth would you care?
>
Two reasons we want our holdings to display in worldcat.org: when someone is
at an auction and considering a book appropriate for our collection, they
would be able to tell in one search if we already had a copy, and if it was
widely held; and we want our rarer holdings to be visible to researchers
> They're promoting it? How's that going, exactly?
>
There have been some webinars recently pushing the advantages of having a
library's holdings visible in this setting; seems like I've also gotten
some targeted emails, although I don't have an example at hand
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Lois Reibach
PT Cataloger
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 South Sixth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
lrreibach_at_gmail.com
Received on Tue Mar 09 2010 - 21:42:13 EST