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1tonir1101
Mar 25, 2011, 1:14 pm

I'm a third year MLIS student at San Jose State University and I volunteer at the Tom of Finland Foundation Library in Los Angeles, CA.

My goal is to help ToFF update its collection management policy and promote the unique/rare items on LT. Right now we are cataloging the books in OCLC.

~~ Toni

2GLCC
Mar 26, 2011, 11:42 am

What a great volunteer job. I'm tracking what's "rare" in our library on LT. The comments column will say "Rare OCLC = XX".

I figure that about 10 to 15% of our stuff is "rare".

We are not putting our holding into OCLC unless someone gives us the money to do it. Few of us in volunteer run libraries can afford to do so. However, many of us are using LT as our online catalogs and contain 1,000s of rare GLBT titles.

Will you be at the GLBT library and archives conference in LA in May?

Hope to see you there.

Dan

3ChrisGonzalezLibrary
Mar 27, 2011, 9:44 am

The Chris Gonzalez Library too has several rare titles. What is OCLC?

4aulsmith
Modificato: Mar 27, 2011, 9:52 am

OCLC is the organization which runs Worldcat. It started out as a consortium of libraries to share cataloging, but has kind of morphed into a very large corporation. They charge a membership fee and some other stuff in order to use their cataloging and enter your records into the database so that you show up in the list of libraries holding the item. Since there are so many libraries which belong to OCLC if a book is held be less than 10 or so, it's probably rare.

Edited: Couldn't get the worldcat url to work as a link. It's www.worldcat.org