Canada now a selection for WorldCat Mobile pilot app
For all our friends in Canada, I wanted to let you know that we've fixed the selection labeling on the WorldCat Mobile pilot app. Now Canada is listed as a location along with France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, 
the UK and the US.
One note is that U.S. results will still appear in your results set (as for many border citizens, the closest holding library may actually be in the U.S.)--but Canada should now appear as a location on its own.
If anyone in Canada would like to test this feature and send us feedback, we'd appreciate it!
On September 18, 2009 at 2:39 PM Paul R. Pival said:
While I can certainly choose my local location here in Calgary, searching for several books I know to be in either our University or public library produce no local results; only US results are showing to me.
On September 22, 2009 at 1:41 PM Alice Sneary
said:
Hi Paul. Thanks for reporting this error. We've been working with Dalhousie University in Halifax to test the Canadian location fix and make sure it worked as expected in Canada. What we uncovered yesterday was that there was a step overlooked in last month's WorldCat Search API build that did not "close up" the zip code space for Canadian and United Kingdom postal codes.
So while the mobile app was actually fixed, the underlying data stream (the WorldCat Search API) was broken. So, the fix has been made today and should be able to be tested again tomorrow.
Would you mind trying again tomorrow? I'll do another quick post, once the API fix has been verified from our Quality Assurance department.
On October 1, 2009 at 2:45 PM Alice Sneary
said:
Just to close the loop. This fix has been verified and Canadian libraries should be seeing corrected holdings, as of last week.