[ILL-L] Friday stumper: search results in worldcat.org

[Laura Barnard]

Paul,

I think this is a result of what OCLC calls Ferberization, as in Edna Ferber, as in Oklahoma, as in all of the works that have derived from it.

Because of Ferberization, you can do one search in on Ferber and Oklahoma and get all records pertinent to it.

Remember when you had to search separately for different formats?  

I will be looking forward to the speculations of others as to why this occurs.

Laura Barnard
Interlibrary Loans
Seattle Public Library (UOK)
206-386-4601
ill at spl.org

>>> Paul B Drake <pdrake at mcneese.edu> 9/19/2008 7:34 AM >>>
I use worldcat.org at times to check availability of certain items: brand new books or maybe-not-yet published journal issues. Sometimes for items that I suspected are reference items, trying to find libraries that have the item in the circulating collection.

I've discovered that even when searching on an OCLC number, the worldcat.org search is giving me library locations for previous editions.

For example, this morning I searched 171111217, Advanced linear algebra by Steven Rowan,3rd ed, 2008 for a faculty request. When I looked at the list of libraries provided, most were for the 1st(1992) and a few for the 2nd (2005) editions. Not the 3rd 2008 that is 171111217


Anyone know why?



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