No.13
ISSN: 1559-0011
September 2009

30,913,701

Records added to WorldCat
in fiscal 2009 (an all-time high)

160,035,032

Holdings added to WorldCat
in fiscal 2009 (an all-time high)

53.8% / 46.2%

In fiscal 2009, the number of records representing materials
in languages other than English was greater than the
number of records for English language materials.

29,073,360

Click-throughs from WorldCat.org
to library services since 2004

532,230,700

Referrals from partner sites
to WorldCat.org since 2004

WorldCat

Format	Number of records	Percentage of total	Locations of items cataloged
Books	124,425,331	84.60%	1,327,492,509
Serials	5,909,740	4.02%	47,562,132
Visual materials	4,574,379	3.11%	29,573,641
Maps	2,290,640	1.56%	7,455,066
Mixed materials	948,434	0.64%	817,631
Sound recordings	4,754,703	3.23%	35,869,879
Scores	3,106,608	2.11%	14,431,035
Computer files	1,071,502	0.73%	3,593,375
Totals	147,081,337	100.00%	1,466,795,268
as of October 2009 (Compiled from Cataloging File Statistics: Analysis of Online Bibliographic Records)

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