Great lists, but "find it" feature lacking – YALSA’s Teen Book Finder Review

These are great lists and it's awesome to have them so readily available. The only problem - and perhaps someone can enlighten me on this point - is that the "find it" feature, which as far as I know is powered by oclc's worldcat search api, doesn't bring up local, relevant results (essentially the results you would get if you used worldcat's actual site). A previous reviewer suggested that only academic libraries were included in results, but I'm not sure that's the problem. Utilizing the find it feature for HP & the deathly hallows, for example, tells me that the nearest copy (I'm in Wisconsin) is at an elementary school outside Philadelphia. Hmm. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Regardless, I think it's a great readers advisory/collection development tool, but marketing it to teens with the promise of a feature that isn't actually functional seems problematic. 4 for great potential and because I'm sure yalsa can iron out the wrinkles.
Review by Ohellodello on YALSA’s Teen Book Finder.

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