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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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WorldCat statistics

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

(July 2010 Compiled from Cataloging File Statistics: Analysis of Online Bibliographic Records)

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