Once installed, WorldCat library searching is easily accessed from the list of applications beneath the Facebook search box.
The application includes a Home screen with WorldCat search box, as well as quick links to WorldCat searches based on personal interests a user has input in his or her Facebook profile. The application also includes tabbed access to:
a built-in advanced WorldCat search
a "Something to Read" panel that displays books recently added to other users' WorldCat lists
a panel where the user can invite other Facebook friends to install the WorldCat application
On a user's Facebook profile page, the application adds a custom Facebook "box" with basic WorldCat search. The profile's owner can expand or collapse the box's visibility, and reposition it to a preferred location by dragging its title bar.
Another way WorldCat libraries achieve "Web scale"
The Facebook application represents another way OCLC uses the WorldCat.org platform to strategically integrate information about its member libraries' collections and services within the wider Web experience.
Let your customers know
WorldCat.org participating libraries can encourage their patrons to install the Facebook application using either of these options:
Follow the link from the WorldCat plug-ins page at http://worldcat.org/toolbars/
Log into a Facebook account and install the application directly from http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/
Users can also search Facebook with the term "WorldCat" to reach the application home page.
