WorldCat Resource Sharing WRS

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WorldCat Resource Sharing (WRS)

• For better or for worse

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Important URLs

• http//firstsearch.oclc.org
• ILL
• http//illpolicies.oclc.org
• Policies
• http//firstsearch.oclc.org/admin
• Admin
• http//www.oclc.org/ill/migration
• Tutorials FAQs
• http//www.oclc.org/support/training/firstsearch/t
  utorial/
• Tutorials
• http//www.oclc.org/ill/migration/issues.htm
• Open issues

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More links
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WRS Open Issues
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Open issues resolved
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Policies Directory

• Since 2003

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Click ?
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Unedited entry, quick view
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Edited record, quick view
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Searching for Custom Holdings
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Click show members
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Click display symbols
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Highlight, copy, and paste into Admin custom
holdings
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OPEN WorldCat
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Open WorldCat in WRS
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Deep Link result
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https//www3.oclc.org/app/openwc/
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Open WorldCat statistics
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Open WorldCat aka Find in a Library
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Libraries near my house
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http//firstsearch.oclc.org/admin
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Admin constant data
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Admin Constant data - IFM
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Admin - Custom holdings
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Admin custom holdings paths
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Admin conditional notes
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Lending/borrowing
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Comments!
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OCLC email about comments
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Pending shipped screens - no referral date
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Can still search by bl? ll?
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All Loans and their status
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Must use slash rather than comma
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Borrowing
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Derived searching does work
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Searching WCName title search
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8 hits/4 valid
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Searching with quotation marks
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4 records all valid
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Title phrase
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1 hit. Where did the other 3 go?
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(No Transcript)
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(No Transcript)
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Good Quick access to holdings
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Annoying fills in lender string
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good Reasons for No display
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Patron name search is the same 4,3,
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Biggest complaint

• Cant edit borrowing notes when responding that
  an item isnt received

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Lending
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Two requests per page flaws
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Batch
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Can edit constant data
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but, Batch looks successful
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Batch have to look closely
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Easy to see in print mode
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Tips or complaints you wish to share