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WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. As of December 2021, WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, [4] and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. [7]
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Library holdings are tracked by WorldCat, a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories. Bibliographies were available at WorldCat Identities, a project ceased to exist. WorldCat's new authority file is called WorldCat Entities. Sample output: Murasaki Shikibu in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
OCLC's WorldCat database is used by the general public and by librarians for cataloging and research. WorldCat is available to the public for searching via a subscription web-based service called FirstSearch, to which many libraries subscribe, [ 48 ] as well as through the publicly available WorldCat.org. [ 49 ]
WorldCat#History From a longer title : This is a redirect from a title that is a complete, more complete or longer version of the topic's name. It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing and searches.
The WorldCat Search API can help editors to 1) check to see is a book cited in an article is available in a local library, and 2) conduct broader research within WorldCat to locate further resources from nearby institutions. This production service is currently used within Wikipedia's Book sources page among other resources. Simply put, OCLC ...
ArchiveGrid is a collection of over five million archival material descriptions, including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the web. [1] It contains archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives. [2] Contribution to the system is available to any institution. [3]
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Dwight H. Perkins, the OCLC/WorldCat database encompasses roughly 100 works in over 250 publications in 7 languages and is held by 6,900+ libraries.