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Single-search access to 922+ million items from your library and the world's library collections
WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 922 million items from your library and the world's library collections. It connects people to all your library's materials—electronic and digital and physical—as well as to the delivery services that get them what they need.
A platform for broad, Web-scale discovery and delivery of library resources
WorldCat.org is a Web destination with search and social networking features that allow information seekers to discover, localize and personalize content from your collections and those of 10,000-plus WorldCat libraries globally. The site is the centerpiece of an open and "Web scale" system that distributes data about WorldCat-cataloged items across popular search engines, the social Web and other partner sites. People who search the Internet first for information find what they need in the context of libraries; identify their location and link directly to catalog records and electronic services at nearby institutions; and contribute user-created content that further enhances discovery and expands the utility and reach of the system.
Cooperative virtual reference
QuestionPoint is a unique virtual reference service, supported by global network of cooperating libraries worldwide, as well as an infrastructure of software tools and communications. QuestionPoint is also a source of unique centralized knowledge resources built by a collaborative network of member libraries.
Seamless access to your library group's collection
OCLC Group Services is the customized way to select and use services from OCLC. Any type of library group—from small cooperatives to statewide, multi-type consortia—can control costs, leverage existing investments and serve users more effectively with their choice of WorldCat-based services.
An online citation collaboration between OCLC and ImagineEasy Solutions
EasyBib Library Edition is a customized version of EasyBib.com that gives your library visibility on the Web with your students. It incorporates your library's branding, includes additional citation styles, provides Web site evaluation tools and more. It builds on your current investment with WorldCat Local, WorldCat Local "quick start" or WorldCat.org. It uses the same search box and incorporates data elements such as library location information and links to your library's home page. Don't have one of those services? Don't worry—EasyBib Library Edition is available to all.
End user discovery service
TouchPoint provides a state-of-the-art interaction between libraries and their users in a web environment. Delivering pinpoint accuracy for researchers with complex discovery needs and rich insights into resources with evaluative content like lists and reviews made available from WorldCat.org.
The direct route from information discovery to content delivery
ZPORTAL provides end users with a single (federated) search environment that simultaneously searches across a selective range of information resources, and retrieves the hits into a single results set—all with the ease of an everyday internet search engine. The system preserves the richness of the facilities provided by the native resources both in their query facilities and data structures.
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