WorldCat reaches 100 million record milestone

On April 1, 2008, a record for the 1950s publication from the U.S. Fisheries Laboratory, Miscellaneous Contributions, marked the 100 millionth bibliographic record entered into WorldCat. The record was part of a retrospective conversion project for the University of Washington Libraries. The WorldCat database continues to grow at an extraordinary rate. Libraries added 18.7 million records to WorldCat in 2007 compared with 9.3 million in 2006 and 4.7 million in 2005.

753,000

eBooks in WorldCat

473

Languages in WorldCat

In April 2008, the number of records
for materials in languages other than English
was greater than the number of records
for English language materials.

369,740,015

Click-throughs to WorldCat
from search engines

2,000,000+

Unique Web visitors
per month to WorldCat.org

2,786,907

Digital items in WorldCat

69,656

WorldCat lists

6,449

Downloads of the
WorldCat Facebook Widget

18,821,444

Click-throughs to libraries
from WorldCat.org

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