From Bill Drew, writing at Baby Boomer Librarian, I learned this morning about a new Twitter-based service that queries the WorldCat database (see #Ask4stuff via twitter from WorldCat. Sending tweets with the tag #Ask4stuff followed by one or several search terms will return a link to results in WorldCat. You can also specify that the results come from a WorldCat Local instance. This has some real possibilities.
To post occasional new thoughts or links to new developments in library technology. Want to see something more here? Do you have a suggestion for an addition to the book or a problem you'd like me to discuss? Please email me at techcompanion@gmail.com or add a comment to an existing post. Thanks!
John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown
regional campus of Miami University. John holds an MSLS from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a BA in history from Michigan State
University. He is the author of the Neal-Schuman Library
Technology Companion: a Guide for Library Staff (5th edition, 2016) and Makerspaces: a Practical Guide for Librarians (2014).
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