April 16, 2008
WorldCat Resource Sharing Per-Page Printing Redesigned
On April 13, a newly redesigned two-per-page printing .PDF layout for the WorldCat Resource Sharing service was made available. A group of librarians and network representatives worked closely with OCLC and helped determine that left justifying all the information except the patron information would allow for easy reading and consistency of style between the one and two per-page layout.
Additionally, it was decided that libraries would benefit if the following fields were always displayed whether or not the information was present in the request. These fields are:
- Call number
- Shipped date
- Lending charges
- Returned date
If patron information is present, the bibliographic information wraps to another line, and the patron data appears to the right of the first line of bibliographic information. A vertical line separates the different information. If there is no patron information, the bibliographic information will extend across the page. OCLC hopes this new layout will greatly improve the usability of the two-per-page printout.
See a sample .PDF of two-per-page printout from the pending file of one of OCLC’s testing sites.
