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The OCLC Cooperative


Governing Members: 7,535
Members: 18,292
Participating libraries: 26,144
Libraries outside the United States: 10,92
Countries & territories served: 95

WorldCat


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Featured WorldCat collection: MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! WorldCat has more than 3 million records for sound recordings and scores, and links to NetLibrary eBooks, from Bach to Stravinsky. Library users can find them using FirstSearch, which also offers RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. RILM contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal and in-depth subject indexes. RIPM provides international coverage of the music periodical literature published from the late 18th to mid-20th centuries in Europe and the United States. Both databases link to library holdings and to OCLC ILL, and RILM citations and can link to a library's JSTOR collection. Ask your OCLC representative how you can enhance access to music resources.

Highest OCLC record number: 56,428,023
Languages in WorldCat: 458
Total OCLC Interlibrary Loan service requests (since 1979): 138,283,864

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Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

44,642,978

83.76%

848,367,527

Serials

2,591,077

4.86%

28,156,695

Visual materials

1,743,776

3.27%

16,596,547

Maps

775,584

1.46%

3,812,215

Mixed materials

239,577

0.45%

248,641

Sound recordings

1,856,345

3.48%

21,023,308

Scores

1,233,723

2.31%

9,388,624

Computer files

214,342

0.40%

1,014,074

Totals

53,297,402

100.00%

928,607,631

as of July 2004

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