8

Videos created by a Ball State University film student to educate students
about library services on campus. (Sample titles: Why I Like the Library;
Read Great, Even Late; and Interlibrary Loan at Work 4 U.)

42

Percent of college graduates
who never read another book after college

530

Miles of shelves that hold the world’s largest library collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

0.9 X 0.9

Size (in millimeters) of the smallest printed book,
an edition of Chameleon by Anton Chekhov.

5,000,000

Articles accessible via the Web through the
Utah Digital Newspaper Program using CONTENTdm.

Blast from the past

New material added to the MLA International Bibliography on the OCLC FirstSearch service significantly increases access to electronic records of scholarly material. The new content features journals, series, essays, dissertations and other scholastic material from 1926–1962 under subjects such as folklore, language, linguistics and literature. The content comes from 38 print volumes of The MLA Bibliography; all 160,000 new records have been reviewed. Along with the new data, journal abbreviations and acronyms for nearly 3,500 titles have been expanded for easier navigation. In addition, full journal names and series titles were standardized, and ISSNs attached. Almost 11,000 subject names and terms also were standardized according to current practices. With the addition of the new retrospective content, library professionals and end users can now search an MLA database of more than 2 million records from over 5,000 titles to meet their research needs. The retrospective content is available at no extra cost to libraries as part of their current subscriptions. Learn more about the MLA International Bibliography database on the Databases available in FirstSearch Web site.

WorldCat Statistics

Watch WorldCat grow—a new record and 13 new holdings are added about every 10 seconds.

The OCLC Cooperative

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