WorldCat Local software review

Read the WorldCat Local software review authored by Steve Shadle of the University of Washington Libraries. The UW Libs began offering a WorldCat Local-based search service on April 30, 2007 (reference). One of the points made by Shadle in the article concerns the role of WorldCat Local compared with that of the integrated library system search interface (which, in UW's case, is a III Millennium Web OPAC system): "In the end, our library has decided that the discovery and service benefits seen in the implementation of WorldCat Local have been substantial enough that we have made WCL our default search and that the library catalogue is now a niche product, like many other specialized databases" (228).