OCLC’s one stop shop for title order information goes international
Developed in association with Cornell University Library, WorldCat Selection allows selectors of new materials at your library to view notification records from multiple material vendors in one central comprehensive system.
It works by profiling with the materials vendors who are partnering with us to determine the notification items you want to receive. Vendors then inform OCLC of notification items for your library based on the frequency you determine. OCLC loads the items for your library into WorldCat Selection and selectors log into it to view the items for their collection areas, viewing records from multiple vendors in one system. Selectors can then take action to select, reject, forward or defer the notification. Records that are selected can be exported and then loaded into the library’s ILS.
The list of library suppliers currently includes:
- Aux Amateurs de Livres International
- Blackwell Book Service
- Casalini Libri
- China National Publishing Industry Trading Corporation
- Coutts Information Services
- Harrasowitz
- Jean Touzot Librairie Internationale
- Leila Books
Suppliers who will be participating in the service shortly include:
- Erasmus Boekhandel
- Iberbook Sanchez-Cuesta, S.A.
- Librairie Erasmus
- Lindsay & Croft
- Puvil Libros
- YBP Library Services
To date, a number of major academic libraries in the UK have expressed an interest with a view to subscribing shortly.