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No.10
ISSN: 1559-0011
October 2008

Contents

President's Report

Updates

Life 2.0: The evolution of our digital DNA

Library Spotlight: Architecture as advocacy

Tips & Tricks: Search Engine Optimization basics

Labs: OCLC pilots WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry

New life for special collections

Research: Make room for the Millennials

WorldCat statistics

By the Numbers


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Scripts supported in WorldCat:

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil, Thai

 

 

 

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National library catalogs represented in WorldCat

76.2 million holdings with 250 million records to be added this fiscal year

 

 

ok22,200,000

WorldCat record growth

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,700,000

Monthly WorldCat.org search box displays

 

 

 

graph13,000,000

Monthly WorldCat.org page views from partner sites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


WorldCat

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

103,892,046

84.70%

1,216,635,308

Serials

4,783,383

3.90%

42,381,543

Visual materials

3,838,502

3.13%

27,430,067

Maps

1,891,200

1.54%

6,570,296

Mixed materials

870,159

0.71%

721,928

Sound recordings

3,890,343

3.17%

32,156,334

Scores

2,582,814

2.11%

13,093,318

Computer files

910,677

0.74%

3,242,980

Totals

122,659,124

100.00%

1,342,231,774

as of October 2008

 


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