A blogpost from LibraryCrunch listing great additions to the library catalog of the future.

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The holdings of the Law Library for the University of Pennsylvania are NOT listed in Franklin. If you don't find what you're looking for in Franklin, search the Lola catalog.

Use BorrowDirect and EZBorrow to get books from our partner libraries delivered in 3 to 4 business days.

Search Franklin for books.

Useful overview of new ways of thinking about the role of library discovery systems in the context of the networked environment.  Highlights the necessary changes to the function of library catalogs now that discovery, location, request and retrieval can be separated from one another. 

 

"Much of the discussion is about improving the catalogue user's experience, not an unreasonable aspiration. However, we really need to put this in the context of a more far-reaching set of issues about discovery and about the continued evolution of library systems, including the catalogue, in a changing network environment. In this environment, users increasingly discover resources in places other than the catalogue."

Infotoday article about worldcat.org

Find University of Pennsylvania in the list and drag the bookmarklet into your browser to find books in Franklin from Amazon and other ISBN containing pages.

These bookmarklets were inspired by Jon Udell's LibraryLookup homepage. The enhancement provided here is to include other ISBNs for the same work in the query.

One example of a new type of catalog. The AquaBrowser shows a visual trail of your search with related terms linked in a fluid web

ZACK bookmaps is a web application to find, locate and loan a book with google maps.

Use this bookmarklet to find out if Penn Library has a book on Amazon. Sadly, this one works on ISBN so it's not entirely consistent.

 

A blogpost from LibraryCrunch listing great additions to the library catalog of the future.

You can look at what various people and groups of people are reading on the web here. You can get an account and add your own links, and create and join groups here too. If you get an account, or create a group, either one can be made private, so nobody but you (if a private account) or your fellow group members (if a private group) can see your links.

MarcEdit was initially conceived in the summer of 2000, and finished largely in response to a major database clean-up project that had been planned for the Oregon State University’s electronic catalog. The problem was simple; a large number of Marcive records were entering the database with invalid call numbers. The problem had been discovered over the summer, and our initial response was to correct our Marcive profile. The problem, however, was that no one knew how many incorrect records had made it into our system. So we began pulling together list of data in an effort to see how much work needed to be done. The results were staggering--45,000 records needed to be corrected in the database. These records were mainly from series in which we had classed documents materials into LC, rather then using the SuDoc numbers contained in the Marcive records.

Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own and use tags to organize your collection.
Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. LibraryThing adds the book’s card to your catalog with ISBN, publisher, year and an image of the book cover. You have space to add a book summary, tags, your comments and a review. See what other users also have each book in their library and what they’ve tagged it. LibraryThing is an impressive cataloging app that feels like del.icio.us for books.

The holdings of the Law Librar for the University of Pennsylvania are NOT listed in Franklin. If you don't find what you're looking for in Franklin, search the Lola catalog.