Re: [ha-Safran] Worldcat Discovery Services replacing Firstsearch - experience? reactions? (RAS)

2014-12-11 Thread Rachel Leket-Mor
Michelle, you may want to join the worldcat-discover...@oclc.orgmailto:worldcat-discover...@oclc.org list to discuss and (maybe?) have a saying regarding these changes. Or maybe a RAS group wants to have an unofficial member on the list. I believe that my library’s Bibliographic and Metadata

Re: [ha-Safran] Worldcat Discovery Services replacing Firstsearch - experience? reactions? (RAS)

2014-12-11 Thread Kolodney, Uri
UT Libraries will probably be moving to Discovery, but I don’t know when. Our bibliographic database management team is dealing with it and it’s on their radar. I had a conversation with OCLC a couple of weeks ago regarding the ‘limiting’ functionality on FirstSearch that sometimes works and

[ha-Safran] Membership status

2014-12-11 Thread Stahl, Sheryl
Hi all, Thanks to the 400 or so of you who have braved the new website and renewed your membership. Now it's time for the rest of you to dive in! Reasons to renew (or join!) now: 5. Sheryl, the VP of Membership, will do a happy dance for every renewal that comes in. 4. You'll be

[ha-Safran] 488 Photos of the Chanukiyot Collection in Bukharim, Jerusalem

2014-12-11 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone! This week, I discovered the Chanukiyot Collection in Bukharim, Jerusalem. I posted the story at: http://bit.ly/chanukiyot-in-bukharim I posted the 488 photos at: http://bit.ly/chanukiyot Enjoy! Please share the article and photos with your friends. Thank You! Shabbat Shalom,

Re: [ha-Safran] Worldcat Discovery Services replacing Firstsearch - experience? reactions? (RAS)

2014-12-11 Thread Michelle Chesner
Thanks. It has been recommended that a critical mass approach OCLC, since they seem to think that only public libraries will use their interface (since, granted, the vast majority of libraries that subscribe are indeed public libraries), and that perhaps something should be

[ha-Safran] Worldcat Discovery Services replacing FirstSearch - experience? reactions? (RAS)

2014-12-11 Thread Zachary Baker
I hadn't heard much about this, myself, so I took the time to watch the 45-minute video of WorldCat Discovery Services, by John McCullough, Project Manager for Discovery Services at OCLC. I agree that this is a topic that should be aired by AJL librarians, especially RAS librarians. In