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No.8
ISSN: 1559-0011
February 2008

Contents

President's Report

Updates

Changing on purpose

Advocacy: A new voice

Tips and Tricks: Getting social with WorldCat.org

Labs: Next-gen cataloging

Circulation analysis

Research: Managing the collective collection

By the Numbers


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226,000,000

European Internet audience
in September 2007

 

 

 

325,000,000

Copies sold worldwide of
the first six Harry Potter books

 


15,000,000

Copies sold worldwide of
Halo 1 and Halo 2 video games


 

$1,400,000,000,000

Revenue of the U.S.
nonprofit sector in 2004

 

 

 


2,100,000,000

Nationwide circulation of public library
materials in fiscal year 2005

 

 

 


WorldCat statistics

formats

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

81,617,440

84.08%

1,098,236,397

Serials

3,974,089

4.09%

38,269,927

Visual materials

3,074,409

3.17%

24,472,627

Maps

1,436,953

1.48%

5,576,328

Mixed materials

854,771

0.88%

686,409

Sound recordings

3,416,315

3.52%

29,375,527

Scores

2,141,659

2.21%

11,917,523

Computer files

557,995

0.57%

2,582,505

Totals

97,073,631

100.00%

1,211,117,243

as of January 2008

The OCLC Cooperative

Governing Members
9,805
Members
20,396
Participating libraries
36,413
Libraries
66,614
Countries & territories served
112

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