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No.7
ISSN: 1559-0011
September 2007

Contents

President's Report

Libraries and social networking

Membership report preview

Advocacy: Social networking encourages teen library usage

Tips and Tricks: A del.icio.us directory

Labs: It's cloudy in research but with little chance of rain

A WorldCat community

Research: Exploring the potential of registries

By the Numbers


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114,000,000

Global visitors to MySpace.com
in June 2007

221.6


Average minutes spent per visitor
at Facebook.com site in June 2007

 


16,622

Lists created at WorldCat.org
since June 2007

 

 

 

100,000,000

Video clips that users view
each day at YouTube

 

250

 


WorldCat statistics

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

72,166,205

83.90%

1,038,529,521

Serials

3,490,048

4.06%

35,358,116

Visual materials

2,804,530

3.26%

23,039,648

Maps

1,168,069

1.36%

5,130,091

Mixed materials

787,880

0.92%

561,724

Sound recordings

3,215,067

3.74%

27,874,432

Scores

1,927,684

2.24%

11,255,898

Computer files

451,050

0.52%

1,500,519

Totals

86,010,523

100.00%

1,143,249,949

as of July 2007

The OCLC Cooperative

Governing Members
9,879
Members
21,411
Participating libraries
29,167
Libraries
60,457
Countries & territories served
111

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