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# Knowing about libraries and services in the network
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/knowing-about-libraries-and-services-in-the-network/
- Published: 2007-09-13T21:56:17.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:31:40.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Books, #MPOW, Systems

I bought the following book in the congenial [City Newstand](https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=city+newstand&near=Cheyenne,+WY&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41133394,-104817178,12348484746365611861&ref=lorcandempsey.net) in Cheyenne this afternoon. The back cover tells me that it was the Wyoming Historical Society Book of the year …  
[![deathwithoutcompany.png](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/deathwithoutcompany.png)](https://worldcat.org/oclc/61703976?ref=lorcandempsey.net)  
I like the ‘get it’, ‘save it’, ‘add to it’, and ‘share it’ features.  
Because I am sitting at a machine in the public library in Cheyenne it provides a link through to [Wyldcat](https://wyld.state.wy.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Xl8KWsSrGa/LARM/39020123/60/1180/X?ref=lorcandempsey.net), the Wyoming-wide system. And also to FirstSearch, to which the library has access. [Worldcat.org](https://www.worldcat.org/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) relates the IP address to the Laramie County Library System and presents the services that we know about (see the orange arrow).  
Incidentally, the novel is published by Penguin, and I was drawn by what I took to be a deliberately retro cover (see [previous remarks](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001190.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) on Penguin covers).  
Note: I will put in a better picture when I am re-united with my own work environment. Update: Mmmm… Of course, now that I am somewhere else if I do a new screenshot it will not show the Cheyenne location because I am not coming in from that particular IP address. I guess I will just leave it as is. Another example of how much of what we do is situational – dependent on some combination of locational attributes.  
Related entries: 

- [Registries: the intelligence in the network](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001105.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Pick up a Penguin, nostalgically](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001190.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)