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WorldCat.org drives Web traffic to Canadian libraries 

See August's statistics by province.

Each month, more Canadian Web users view resources available in their local libraries as a result of Open WorldCat, WorldCat.org and OCLC’s partnership activities with popular Web sites and search engines like Yahoo! and Google. How have these initiatives helped to increase traffic to libraries in your province? Take a look at these results compiled for the month of August (usually, a quiet month):

 

WorldCat.org
Visitors by Province

August
2009
Ontario 32,721
Quebec 18,455
British Columbia 12,510
Alberta 7,916
Nova Scotia 2,108
Manitoba 2,089
Saskatchewan 1,810
New Brunswick 1,424
Newfoundland 528
Prince Edward Island 273
Yukon Territory 176
Northwest Territories 21
Nunavut 5
TOTAL 80,036
(Source: Omniture)

If you are interested in finding out about your own library’s statistics, please access the usage statistics at http://www.stats.oclc.org to obtain them or contact OCLC Canada at 1-888-658-6583 or Canada@oclc.org  for more details.