S&H Green Stamps Ideabook 79
https://archive.org/details/s-h-green-stamps-ideabook-79/page/n1/mode/2up
#Catalogs #1970s #ProductDesign #Furniture

Anyone have any info on a nation-wide organization that is requesting, under the Freedom of Information Act, that all public school library catalogs be accessible remotely? The school district recently received this request. Ours have always been available, until last week when a software update messed up all our links. Heck, we didn’t even have the catalog in-house. #SchoolLibraries #catalogs #LibrariansOfMastodon #FreedomOfInformation #MediaCenters

#Vss365 (#Gardener's version)

Tonight gardeners raise a glass to
the #Seed #Catalogs for the new year.

It's #Dream time, folks.
Plowing through binomials.
Rereading old anecdotes.
"#Plant this" or "Try this"
scribbled in margins;
#Hope on every page.

Best of all, #Seeds can be had by anyone -
#Naughty or #Nice.

#Botanical pickup lines flit about.
Burpee's cover beckons:
A #Feast for Your Eyes!
NEW #Vivacious TOMATO.

We are #Plant #Hunters sitting by the fire,
Hands resting on our hearts.

Self-described "Paper fetishsts" are my kind of people.

#ephemera #tradecards #broadsides #catalogs #handbills #sheetmusic #books #maps #postcards #programs #engravings #valentines #lithographs #photos #illustration

I make reasonably frequent use (several times/week) of Worldcat. Usually invoked via DuckDuckGo's "!worldcat" bang search, most often on an Android tablet.

Since Worldcat's recent site revision, that's resulted in frequent issues with pages failing to load and/or bot-detection messages which fail to clear or resolve, such that I abandon my search attempt.

The net effect is that Worldcat is far less useful to me than prior to the site revision.

Please tune any anti-bot features such that human users are not affected.

I'll often browse with both Javascript and cookies disabled and much prefer being able to do so for privacy and security reasons. As best as I can tell, Worldcat fails to function with either of these disabled. This also means that convenient tools I've created such as a command-line based Worldcat search using a console-mode Web browser utterly fail to function. This is a grave concern.

Please ensure basic search functionality of Worldcat without reliance on javascript or cookies.

I use a fairly atypical browser. Whether or not this tends to trigger bot detection I'm not sure, but I'll mention it. I'm not mentioning which browser, on the principle that Worldcat should be browser-agnostic. Please don't discriminate based on reasonably plausible user-agents.

Please use criteria other than user-agent in anti-abuse / anti-DOS features.

I'm utterly frustrated by the site changes, and am actively seeking out alternative library / book search options.

(A copy of an email support request sent to Worldcat.)

#oclc #worldcat #catalogs #libraries

I've just heard through OCLC support that linked-data is no longer supported and that the project has ended.

I've no more information than that.

Any librarian / cataloguing types have any further information or insight?

Extant OCLC docs that I'm aware of:
https://www.oclc.org/research/areas/data-science/linkeddata.html

#OCLC #LinkedData #Catalogs #Worldcat #Libraries #Librarians