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No.15
ISSN: 1559-0011
April 2010

Contents

President's Report

Metadata everywhere

Bavarian State Library

The value of library cooperation

Social metadata

QuestionPoint on the go

Updates

OCLC launches Innovation Lab

Library statistics

By the numbers


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Managing the collective collection

1.9 billion items and growing

(as of May 2010)

 

 


WorldCat statistics

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

151,984,994

84.08%

1,406,436,074

Serials

7,455,234

4.16%

52,535,327

Visual materials

4,819,794

2.69%

31,180,339

Maps

2,889,344

1.61%

8,337,427

Mixed materials

968,150

0.54%

834,792

Sound recordings

5,351,666

2.99%

37,730,116

Scores

4,425,015

2.47%

16,262,044

Computer files

1,334,114

0.74%

3,964,701

Totals

179,228,311

100.00%

1,557,280,820

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

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