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"A pilot of the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway is currently underway, which allows you to upload the metadata of your digital content to WorldCat from any OAI-compliant digital repository. (Previously, the Gateway was only integrated with CONTENTdm repositories.) Once your metadata is in WorldCat, your collections are more visible and discoverable by end users who search WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local "quick start", as well as Google, Yahoo! and other popular Web sites."

"I don't think its obvious, but what OCLC is trying to do with WorldCat is much bolder than Serials Solutions and Summon. With Summon, libraries are basically throwing all of their content into one index to break down the data silos within an institution. But what you end up with is a big search silo for that institution. With WorldCat, the vision is to break down not only the silos within institutions but also the silos between institutions. And not just break down those silos in the sense of harvest-and-search. The concept is that libraries and their patrons will be working together to improve a shared database through intentional and professional metadata. This shared database will be big enough to have a real impact on the web. Its records will surface in search engine results. Its interface will be familiar to many, and it will be customizable for a particular audience via the WorldCat Local route."

"Now that we've had WCL as our main OPAC for almost a year (we started at the beginning of the fall semester in 2009), I am able to share observations and critical accounts of WorldCat Local in the context of an academic library. "

"WorldCat Local is the single search that connects people to all your library materials-physical, electronic and digital-as well as to the delivery services that get them what they need. It displays multiple types of library resources, formats and locations in a single relevancy-ranked results set, provides high-level Web visibility for your library, interoperates with existing locally-maintained circulation and delivery services, connects seamlessly to everything in your collection and simplifies the discovery-and-delivery experience for your library users."

"(...) We list here some of the search and retrieval, content and other features that might be expected from a resource discovery system and which of the four systems (WCL, Encore, Summon, LibraryFind™) provide that functionality."