Here’s a wonderful thing I stumbled across the other day: GAM3R 7H30RY has its very own listing in North Carolina State University’s online library catalog.
The catalog is worth browsing in general. Since January, it’s been powered by Endeca, a fantastic library search tool that, among many other things, preserves some of the serendipity of physical browsing by letting you search the shelves around your title.
(Thanks, Monica McCormick!)
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as exciting as it is to see GAM3R 7H30RY listed in a “card catalog”, what i find most thrilling are the two serendipity features which take us way beyond the limitations of query-based searches. if you click on the image in the post it will take you to the live catalog. click on “browse the shelf” and/or “more titles like this.” these are MAJOR advances.
And if you check worldcat.org (OCLC’s search tool for more than 1 billion items in libraries worldwide) you’ll see that so far only one other library has it catalogued: Monash University in Victoria, Australia. You’ll probably see more entries when the print book comes out and it gets into the standard library workflow.