FirstSearch and WorldCat Discovery will continue as separate services. OCLC will continue the full-featured WorldCat searching in FirstSearch with a new version of FirstSearch and will add these capabilities to WorldCat Discovery.
A new version of FirstSearch will deliver the full-featured searching of WorldCat valued by FirstSearch users today.
WorldCat Discovery will continue to provide single-search discovery of electronic, digital and physical materials in local library collections and in libraries worldwide. In addition to the single search box preferred by many searchers, the future WorldCat Discovery will provide the full-featured search experience of FirstSearch for library staff and other expert searchers. WorldCat Discovery will remain the user-facing interface to WorldShare Management Services.
Both WorldCat Discovery and the new version of FirstSearch will include a modern, mobile-ready interface.
Collections of libraries represented in WorldCat will remain visible on the websites where many people begin their research, no matter which option a library uses in the future.
Both FirstSearch and WorldCat Discovery will continue to be offered separately.
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