{"id":10595,"date":"2005-07-12T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2005\/07\/12\/our_virtual_ref\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T20:47:33","slug":"our_virtual_ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/12\/our_virtual_ref\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Virtual Reference on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of wikis, the Libraries new instant message (IM) reference service<a href=\"http:\/\/ask.library.temple.edu\/\">AskTULibrary<\/a>\u00a0is one of only a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libsuccess.org\/index.php?title=Online_Reference\">handful of libraries doing such<\/a>\u00a0listed on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libsuccess.org\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another place our virtual reference services are appearing on the web is in records for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/worldcat\/open\/default.htm\">OpenWorldCat<\/a>. This project comes out of the WorldCat database of library holdings (<a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/books_more\/other_catalogs\/index.jsp\">accessible from here<\/a>). OpenWorldCat opens up the records in this database to discovery by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Searching for terms that match books will bring up results labeled &#8220;Find in a Library&#8221; that link to an OpenWorldCat record with information on libraries that hold the book in a specific region (based on zip code). When Temple University appears in these records the information link takes the reader to our Ask a Librarian page. Hopefully this will allow a few more Google searchers to discover their local library and its wealth of holdings.<\/p>\n<p>To see an example go to this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22find+in+a+library%22+gypsies&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">pre-made search<\/a>\u00a0and click on the first or second result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Derik A Badman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of wikis, the Libraries new instant message (IM) reference serviceAskTULibrary\u00a0is one of only a\u00a0handful of libraries doing such\u00a0listed on\u00a0Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. Another place our virtual reference services are appearing on the web is in records for\u00a0OpenWorldCat. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2005\/07\/12\/our_virtual_ref\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,6],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-at-your-service","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}