{"id":10704,"date":"2015-06-30T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=10704"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:41","slug":"transition-from-worldcat-local-to-firstsearch-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2015\/06\/30\/transition-from-worldcat-local-to-firstsearch-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition from WorldCat Local to Firstsearch\/Discovery \u2013 July 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oclc.org\/etc\/designs\/oclc\/oclc-legacy\/images\/logos\/new\/WorldCat\/WorldCat_Logo_H_Color.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the transition to <a href=\"http:\/\/librarydiscovery.luc.edu\/\">a new Library Search<\/a>, library access to WorldCat Local <strong>ends as of July 1, 2015<\/strong>. The new Library Search will be available on<strong> July 23<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are several library databases that can be used to perform tasks that you may have done with Worldcat Local.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search for books and movies at Loyola \u2013 for the rest of July, you can search for books, movies, and other physical material in the Loyola Libraries by using <a href=\"http:\/\/pegasus.luc.edu\/vwebv\/searchBasic?sk=en_US\">the Pegasus catalog<\/a> (the Pegasus search box will remain on the Library homepage).<\/li>\n<li>Search for books at other libraries \u2013 You can search for books that we don\u2019t have here at Loyola using <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/databases\/database\/1244\">WorldCat Firstsearch<\/a>. This version of WorldCat does not search journal articles, like WorldCat Local does, but it does search library catalogs around the world. You can also submit interlibrary loan requests for specific books when you search for them in <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/databases\/database\/1244\">WorldCat Firstsearch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">Search for journal articles \u2013 The library subscribes to hundreds of article databases that cover different areas of research. You can choose the best database for your research area from our <a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.luc.edu\/\">Research Guides<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/databases\">Database list<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hn9yf5lh6v.search.serialssolutions.com\/\">E-Journal list<\/a> or use <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/databases\/database\/753\">Academic Search Complete<\/a>, which is a general article database that covers all disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/ask\">contact us<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the transition to a new Library Search, library access to WorldCat Local ends as of July 1, 2015. The new Library Search will be available on July 23. There are several library databases that can be used to perform tasks that you may have done with Worldcat Local. Search for books and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,95],"tags":[5053,5052,5051,5054,291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10707,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10704\/revisions\/10707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}