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Language Sets : At a glance

Language Sets at a glance

Language Sets make it easy and affordable to serve your culturally diverse community. With one simple order, receive what you need to start, maintain or expand a non-English language collection of books and DVDs.

Benefits

  • Meet the needs of diverse users with popular materials in 15 languages
  • Save the time you would spend contacting publishers and negotiating prices—our language collection specialists do all the work
  • Speed up cataloging; all books and DVDs arrive cataloged in full MARC format, ready to shelve
  • Stay current with a steady flow of new materials using easy-to-order, regular deliveries of additional Language Sets
  • Order at any time by mail, fax or new online store

Features

  • Available in 15 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi Panjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Telugu, Urdu and Vietnamese (other languages may be available through custom collections)
  • Most orders include carefully selected classics, best-sellers and highly anticipated new releases that appeal to public library users
  • Books arrive ready to shelve (provided your library does not require additional physical processing, such as bar codes or spine labels), cataloged in full MARC format with LC subject headings and your choice of Dewey or LC call numbers
  • Optional physical processing of items
  • Delivery of records via diskette, FTP or e-mail attachment
  • Promotional, language-specific posters and bookmarks are included with the first order of each language (for additional posters, contact langsets@oclc.org)
  • Your new holdings are automatically added to the WorldCat database of shared records from libraries around the world, and OCLC checks member holdings to avoid duplicate titles for each order

Related services

  • OCLC Custom Cataloging services can help any library speed up cataloging of English and non-English materials alike
  • Provide access to your new non-English materials (and others) through the WorldCat database using FirstSearch, available with Chinese, English, French, Japanese and Spanish interfaces
  • The Cataloging Partners program is OCLC's newest collaborative effort with materials vendors to reduce the cost of high-quality cataloging for libraries
  • OCLC's NetLibrary provides academic, public, special and school libraries with eContent solutions that support web-based research, reference and learning.