Novo: WorldCat.org Interface Available in Portuguese
Alice Sneary on the WorldCat.org blog announces that the WorldCat database is now available in Portuguese.
Now, wherever you are, you can self-select your language preference as Portuguese or one of the other six languages: Simplified Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
For example, at the bottom of any WorldCat.org page you can self-select a language.
Alice Also Shares the Following Statistics in Her WorldCat Blog Post:
- WorldCat Total: 225 million bibliographic records
- Portuguese-Language Records: More Than 2 million of 225 Million Records in Database
- Libraries, museums and archives in Brazil and Portugal have contributed nearly 700,000 Portuguese-language records since June 30, 2010.
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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