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Promote WorldCat in your library

Are your administrators or funding bodies familiar with your library's participation and visibility in WorldCat? Do your users know they can find items in your collection from major Web search engines or WorldCat.org? When you build awareness of WorldCat with your patrons, you give your users a reason to come back to your library and its Web site for access to a unique resource. The value of WorldCat goes up for everyone: users, staff and the entire OCLC cooperative.

Below are materials that will familiarize your library's users with the WorldCat name and the capabilities it offers them.

Promotional tools for WorldCat.org and Web-based discovery
Promotional tools for public library users of WorldCat
Promotional tools for WorldCat through FirstSearch

Promotional tools for WorldCat.org and Web-based discovery

	WorldCat.org posters Print and display these posters to let patrons know your holdings can be located through WorldCat.org, Google and Yahoo!. Set printer margins to zero or lowest permitted value. Static PDF versions are suggested for placement around onsite workstations and study or meeting areas; add your library name or logo to the customizable PDF or Word files for use locally or in other non-library settings (such as campus computer labs or community centers). Download 11" x 17" poster (static PDF) (1.6M) Download 8.5" x 11" poster (static PDF) (1.5M) Download 8.5" x 11" poster (PDF with customizable space) (1.5M) Download 8.5" x 11" poster (customizable Microsoft Word document) (1.0M)

	WorldCat table tent Print and distribute these "table tents" to let library users know your holdings can be located through WorldCat.org, Google and Yahoo!. Set printer margins to zero or lowest permitted value. Photo paper or card stock recommended. Static PDF version is suggested for placement around onsite workstations and study or meeting areas; add your library name or logo to the customizable PDF or Word file for use locally or in other non-library settings (such as campus computer labs or community centers). Download table tent (static PDF) (149K) Download table tent (PDF with customizable space) (145K) Download table tent (customizable Word document) (348K)

	Suggested text for e-mail distribution Do you regularly distribute a styled or textual e-mail to your users? Use the message below to let them know about WorldCat.org searching. Find materials in [your library name] on WorldCat.org Now it's easy to make libraries part of your Web search for information: You can locate items in [your library name] on the WorldCat Web site at http://www.worldcat.org/. WorldCat is a global network of libraries that unite their collections in one master catalog. You may already be familiar with WorldCat from the FirstSearch reference service [indicate how/where FirstSearch is available in your library--e.g. workstations, authenticated Web access]. Our participation in this master WorldCat catalog allows you to find items in our collection, and in the collections of many additional libraries. WorldCat.org allows you to search for a particular resource--be it a book, video, audio CD, full-text article or another format--and then locate a library near you that owns the item. If [library name] has it, our name will appear as a link to our Web site and the online record for the item. There, you can [indicate what functionality is available from your Web OPAC record]. WorldCat is on the Web search sites you use every day You can also perform WorldCat searches on Google, Yahoo! and Windows Live Search. Simply include the phrase "Find in a Library" (including quote marks), or alternately "site:worldcat.org" (leaving out the quotes) with your search terms. Your search results should include one or more links with the prefix "WorldCat" and the name of a library-owned item that matches your terms. It's easy to find what you're looking for Once you're at WorldCat.org, you'll find you can search library materials using simple keywords, just like you do at your favorite Web search site. An advanced search helps you limit results to specific authors, subjects, formats, and dates. From WorldCat search results, you can also narrow as you go using a "Refine Your Search" panel. This dynamic navigation lets you move easily between browsing and searching: Drill down into results with increasing levels of specificity, and move back up the chain if needed. Tools that let you quickly find and participate WorldCat.org lets you install one of several browser and Web-page plug-ins that keeps WorldCat searching close at hand. The site also helps you put a special version of the WorldCat search box on your own Web site or blog, or learn how to create links to the WorldCat Web page for a specific item. The record page for a particular item on WorldCat.org also lets you share what you know with users around the world: You can add your own rating and review of a work, or contribute factual notes about its contents or its historical or cultural context. Do you maintain social bookmarks on Web sites such as Digg, Del.icio.us or Facebook? A special "AddThis" bookmarking button lets you add a link to the WorldCat record to your bookmarks without leaving WorldCat.org. Build lists of library items and create bibliographies When you create a free user account at WorldCat.org, you can immediately begin to build lists of library-owned items. Add any book, video, article or other item to a list right from its WorldCat record, or use the checkboxes and "Save to" button in WorldCat search results. Your lists can be public--which lets you share them with friends and colleagues--or private so only you can see them. You can build as many lists as you like on any subject, add personal notes about specific items, and move or copy items between lists! Students can also view their lists as bibliographic citations in one of five common styles, and export them for use in research-oriented software and Web sites. Learn more about the people associated with your favorite works Want to know much more "about the author"? WorldCat.org shows you through unique profiles called WorldCat Identities. Each identity uses interactive timelines, "tag clouds," cover art and other features to let you explore connections between the people who who write, create or act in books, movies and music you like and the subject matter of those works. New site features are added all the time Be sure to visit http://www.worldcat.org/, where you always "find in a library"!

	Customizable press release Customize and send this press release to your community newspapers, local Web sites, TV stations and other media. Download press release (Microsoft Word document; 32K)

	High-level overview flier This short information sheet is designed to familiarize administrators, managers, members of funding bodies and other key stakeholders with the value of WorldCat's open-Web services. Download flier (static PDF) (188K) Download flier (customizable Word document) (190K)

	Presentation slide Incorporate this overview slide into a presentation to administrators and others. Talking points are included in the Notes section. Download slide (Microsoft PowerPoint document; 160K)

Promotional tools for public library users of WorldCat

There are many cool ways to use WorldCat. The promotional tools below will help public library staff communicate with library users about the types of resources they can locate using the WorldCat database.

Each piece features a type of resource users can find in WorldCat, along with directions for searching the database. You can download and print all eight together, or individually. Display, hang, or give away these in and throughout the library. Use the brief articles on your Web site or distribute them in your own newsletters or e-mail messages.

The toolkit includes a flyer, shelf hanger, bookmark and brief article, in each of eight popular topics:

Summer Reading Programs
Download: Bookmarks 1-4 | Bookmarks 5-8

Genealogy
Download the whole toolkit, or the individual pieces: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Cooking and nutrition
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Music
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Gardening/Landscaping
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Real estate
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Materials for people with disabilities
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Languages
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Current events
Toolkit: Flyer | Shelf hanger | Bookmark | Customizable brief article

Promotional tools for WorldCat through FirstSearch

Web link images

Use these images as links from your library's online catalog or Web pages to the WorldCat-enabled FirstSearch reference service. Use of these images is provided with your agreement to the license terms.

Pixel size	Badge version	Button version
104 x 41
110 x 38
147 x 22
87 x 40
114 x 24
134 x 27

Print promotional materials

These materials may be directly downloaded and printed or requested in quantity free of charge by sending an e-mail to orders@oclc.org. Include the product code for each item requested.