National participation in WorldCat agreed in Denmark
OCLC and the Dansk BiblioteksCenter (DBC) have announced that an agreement has been signed to load the Danish National Union Catalogue (DANBIB) with holdings into WorldCat. DBC is responsible for providing the Danish national ILL infrastructure as well as managing its national union catalogue. The agreement is the result of a year-long pilot coordinated with the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media (DALM), the governmental administrative and advisory body responsible for public and research libraries. The pilot took place with the participation of academic and public libraries from across Denmark. The agreement will add approximately 10 million Danish records in WorldCat.
The agreement is evidence of a strengthening partnership between Danish libraries and OCLC. Ongoing active participation in WorldCat has been determined through the adoption of WorldCat cataloguing and resource sharing services by many of the Danish libraries involved in the pilot. In addition, a connection between the global destination web site for libraries, WorldCat.org and bibliotek.dk, a Danish libraries' service, will be orchestrated. Bibliotek.dk is a national service managed by the Dansk BibliotekCenter to enable Danish citizens to request and receive items from any library in Denmark, free-of-charge. Danish web users will be directed to the service from WorldCat.org, when their enquiries result in a request for physical items or access to electronic items that are readily available in Danish libraries.