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No.17
ISSN: 1559-0011
December 2010

Contents

President's Report

ROI 2020

Updates

Geek the Library in action

The global cooperative in the Asia Pacific region

Rethinking the boundaries of the academic library

Improving access to library materials

Web-scale Management Services ... in their words

WorldCat statistics

By the numbers


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WorldCat statistics

Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

175,790,903

81.90%

1,505,513,122

Serials

8,787,990

4.09%

59,263,683

Visual materials

6,270,833

2.92%

33,888,803

Maps

3,372,941

1.57%

9,138,771

Mixed materials

1,149,760

0.54%

1,041,423

Sound recordings

7,353,740

3.43%

41,671,149

Scores

4,945,506

2.30%

17,313,771

Computer files

6,974,423

3.25%

11,281,641

Totals

214,646,146

100.00%

1,679,112,363

(January 2011 Compiled from Cataloging File Statistics: Analysis of Online Bibliographic Records)

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