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No.14
ISSN: 1559-0011
January 2010

Contents

President's Report

The Ripple Effect

Libraries, archives and museums find more in common

The global cooperative takes shape

Classify

It all comes together in the WorldCat Registry

Metasearch expands the reach of WorldCat Local

Updates

Library statistics

By the numbers


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The global scope of library activity

 

 

 


WorldCat statistics

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

144,461,382

85.01%

1,382,678,443

Serials

7,077,774

4.17%

50,680,473

Visual materials

4,726,338

2.78%

30,717,289

Maps

2,665,939

1.57%

7,981,609

Mixed materials

957,294

0.56%

826,357

Sound recordings

5,260,150

3.10%

36,990,777

Scores

3,514,365

2.07%

15,122,676

Computer files

1,266,416

0.75%

3,853,946

Totals

169,929,646

100.00%

1,528,851,570

as of January 2010   (Compiled from Cataloging File Statistics: Analysis of Online Bibliographic Records)

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