Reaching Consumers through Nontraditional Methods: What Can WorldCat Do for You?
Recorded at the ALA Midwinter 2010 conference
Meeting Overview:
Librarians, library users and industry leaders share strategies of how WorldCat.org helps them reach consumers, researchers, developers and partner organizations through social tools, mobile apps, APIs and more.
Presenters
- Jasmine De Gaia, global product manager for WorldCat.org
Introduction
- Roy Tennant, senior program officer for OCLC Research, OCLC Developer Network co-founder
"WorldCat for developers"
- Jennifer Friedman, Collections Manager at the Rotch Library of Art and Architecture, MIT
"WorldCat for academic libraries"
- Graeme Williams, superpatron from the Waltham Public Library, Waltham, MA
"WorldCat for end-users"
- Andrew Yu, Mobile Platform Manager and Architect, Information Services and Technology. MIT
"Mobile Computing: Lessons learned to inform library approaches"
- Cindy Cunningham, director of Partner Programs at OCLC
"WorldCat partners: Extending libraries' reach online"
Discussion