Open WorldCat is up and running as of today at www.worldcat.org. I’ve created a Firefox Search Plugin for your convienence. I’ve submitted it to OCLC with the hope that they’ll find it worthy of adding to their WorldCat Tools page.
UPDATE 08 Aug 2006: OCLC has responded by telling me that they’ve created their own search plugin and will be releasing it “within the next 24 to 48 hours”.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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