MORE 'WORLDCAT' POSTS
From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC has added more than 1.2 million brief bibliographic records to WorldCat.org for materials held by Arab libraries, records that represent the complete catalog of the Arabic Union Catalog (AUC) maintained in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Each record from the AUC in WorldCat.org contains brief bibliographic information for items held by AUC […]
Title: The Top 25 US Public Libraries Collective Collection as Represented in WorldCat (11 pages; PDF) Author: Brian Lavoie, OCLC Research From the Report: A collective collection is the combined holdings of a group of institutions, with duplicate holdings (i.e., those pertaining to the same publication) removed. This yields the collection of distinct publications that […]
A New 24 Page Report From OCLC: "WorldCat Quality"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|Title: Principle Contributors: Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management From a Summary on the OCLC Web Site: This paper describes OCLC’s steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat’s unprecedented growth […]
From an OCLC Announcement: OCLC and Ex Libris Group have signed an agreement that will enable Ex Libris to incorporate the WorldCat Search API into several Ex Libris discovery and delivery services, providing OCLC member libraries access to WorldCat through the Ex Libris Primo and MetaLib solutions. Ex Libris will integrate the WorldCat Search API, […]
HathiTrust Full-Text Index to Be Integrated Into OCLC Services
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From OCLC: OCLC and HathiTrust have signed an agreement that will allow OCLC to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this important digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust […]
From OCLC: On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC […]
UPDATE: Screenshots: Production Version WorldCat Local Mobile From OCLC: A production version of mobile-optimized WorldCat Local is now available to libraries following beta testing of the service that makes it possible for mobile users to discover items, see location, shelf status, call numbers, and more in their local library, and in libraries worldwide. New mobile-optimized […]
Milestones: 10 Millionth Record Added to WorldCat By an Open Access Publisher in Croatia
Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From an OCLC Announcement: A record for a book accessible online, titled Task-oriented and Purposeful Robot-Assisted Therapy, marked the 10 millionth record added to WorldCat via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway. The record was harvested into WorldCat by staff at InTech, an open access publisher located in Rijeka, Croatia. [Clip] The WorldCat record links to […]
You’ve seem many web search resources offering search suggestions as you enter your query into the search box. With each letter entered the results can change. Now, WorldCat.org now also offering this feature with suggestions appearing where you’ve seen them elsewhere, directly below the search box. Click on a suggestion and run the search for […]
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 […]