No.16 ISSN: 1559-0011 August 2010
Contents
President's Report
The future of publishing
Fellowship experience broadens the family
WorldCat.org: Advanced citations
Moving our global cooperative forward
Expanding research opportunities for the cooperative
The next steps toward Web scale
Updates
Three new ways to experience WorldCat.org
WorldCat statistics
By the numbers
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Format
Number of records
Percentage of total
Locations of items cataloged
Books
167,341,631
84.95%
1,455,049,985
Serials
8,154,830
4.14%
54,463,445
Visual materials
5,018,466
2.55%
31,864,989
Maps
3,146,275
1.60%
8,725,556
Mixed materials
976,416
0.50%
844,425
Sound recordings
5,582,809
2.83%
38,717,601
Scores
4,733,600
2.40%
16,863,174
Computer files
2,038,526
1.03%
5,799,441
Totals
196,992,553
100.00%
1,612,328,616
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