{"id":848,"date":"2006-11-06T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/11\/open-worldcat\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T11:04:00","slug":"open-worldcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/11\/open-worldcat\/","title":{"rendered":"Open WorldCat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to find a book, but don&#8217;t know what libraries it&#8217;s in? Checked the Butler Library Catalog and couldn&#8217;t find that book or CD? Try OpenWorldCat.<\/p>\n<p>WorldCat has been available to Butler students, faculty, and staff via the Library Website for quite a while. But now WorldCat is available to everyone via <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/\">http:\/\/worldcat.org\/<\/a>. Just do a search like you normally would, type in your zip code, and they&#8217;ll show you libraries near you that own the item. &#8220;Books, videos, downloadable audiobooks&#8230; if it&#8217;s in a library near you, you can find it in WorldCat no matter where you are on<br \/>\nthe Web.&#8221; You&#8217;ll even get links to the libraries&#8217; websites and services like &#8220;Ask A Librarian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to search Open WorldCat right from your browser, you can download one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/toolbars\/default.htm\">toolbars<\/a>. You have the options of the WorldCat versions of the Yahoo Toolbar or Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer or a Firefox browser search extension. All of these include installation notes and &#8220;how to use&#8221; notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to find a book, but don&#8217;t know what libraries it&#8217;s in? Checked the Butler Library Catalog and couldn&#8217;t find that book or CD? Try OpenWorldCat. WorldCat has been available to Butler students, faculty, and staff via the Library Website for quite a while. But now WorldCat is available to everyone via http:\/\/worldcat.org\/. Just do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[274803,274806],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-research","tag-technology-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}