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Scripts supported in WorldCat:

Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil, Thai

 

 

 

35

National library catalogs represented in WorldCat

76.2 million holdings with 250 million records to be added this fiscal year

 

 

ok22,200,000

WorldCat record growth

 

 

 

 

 

 

2,700,000

Monthly WorldCat.org search box displays

 

 

 

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Monthly WorldCat.org page views from partner sites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WorldCat

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

103,892,046

84.70%

1,216,635,308

Serials

4,783,383

3.90%

42,381,543

Visual materials

3,838,502

3.13%

27,430,067

Maps

1,891,200

1.54%

6,570,296

Mixed materials

870,159

0.71%

721,928

Sound recordings

3,890,343

3.17%

32,156,334

Scores

2,582,814

2.11%

13,093,318

Computer files

910,677

0.74%

3,242,980

Totals

122,659,124

100.00%

1,342,231,774
as of October 2008

 

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