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2,000,000,000
holdings and growing...

On May 4, the University of Alberta Libraries created the 2,000,000,000th holding record in WorldCat, marking a major milestone for this unique library resource.

For the past 40 years, libraries like yours have worked together to build, sustain and improve WorldCat. These cooperative efforts get information seekers to the answers they need, and help other libraries be more efficient.

Congratulations to you—the OCLC community—on making this great achievement possible.

2,000,000,000 is a really big number…Some fun ways to put it in perspective:

If you needed a catalog drawer to represent all those items, it would stretch over 1,100 miles.

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