Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Sabina Pagotto @spagotto@glammr.us

2/6/2026, 2:08:19 PM

Public

One of my student employees flagged for me that you can no longer see full metadata records on WorldCat without an account. It looks like you can only see title, author, publisher, year, format, language. Not even ISBN.

What gives, OCLC???

If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://glammr.us/users/spagotto/statuses/116024075867770850 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)

Ed Bilodeau @edbilodeau@mastodon.social

2/6/2026, 3:27:06 PM

Public

RE: https://glammr.us/@spagotto/116024075867770850

As another commenter pointed out, this is likely a change made in response to scraping of metadata (see: OCLC lawsuit against Anna's Archive, etc). However I suspect it would be trivial for a scraper to create a WorldCat account and then proceed with harvesting metadata from the site. Maybe this change is just to establish the context that the metadata is not a free resource for anyone to access online?