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60 millionth record added to WorldCat
Entered
on May 2, the record was for the 16-page book, The Fat of the Land:
A One-act Comedy for Eight Women Players, by Tom Jones, Albert Rhodes
and Vic Hutchinson, and was added as part of the LinkUK database load.
The record included two holding libraries, the Surrey
County Libraries and the Kent
County Council Arts & Libraries.
The LinkUK database, formerly called V3.Web, contains more than 3.2 million records and approximately 10 million holdings from 75 public libraries in the United Kingdom—in London, the South East, the West Midlands and South Wales. Batch processing began on March 23 and will continue for several weeks.
The 59 millionth record was input on April 15, 2005 by the Reformed Theological Seminary Library, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
How “search” is redefining the Web—and our lives
An
article in The Seattle Times says that search engines were once
merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch
a site from the Web haystack. Now, they are the destination itself, and
crucial to fulfilling a basic human need—the quest for information.
For many, they have become the first stop in a discovery, the jumping-off
point for an increasing number of tasks.
Three quarters of U.S. Internet users, or about 120 million people, have used engines, searching an average of 38 times a month. As the technology has taken off, its influence has rippled through other industries. “We have invited them into our lives,” said Danny Sullivan, founder of the Search Engine Watch site. “Originally, we turned to them just to locate stuff on the Web. We continue to do that, but they're going through a metamorphosis into being our trusted guide to everything.”
Mining for Digital Resources:
Identifying and Characterizing Digital Materials in WorldCat
An OCLC Research study estimates that 1.5 percent of WorldCat—about 750,000 records—describe digital resources, such as e-books, electronic journals, computer games, reference databases and Web sites.
Approximately 80 percent of the digital records have been entered since 2000, reflecting similar trends in library collections. E-books represent the highest proportion of digital records (43 percent), with computer files and government documents also constituting significant proportions.
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OCLC welcomes these new member libraries
Logansport-Cass County Public Library
Location: Logansport, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: INLCC
OCLC Network: INCOLSA
Bristol Bay Borough
School District
Location: Naknek, Alaska, USA
OCLC Symbol: AKBBS
OCLC Network: OCLC Western Service Center
Central A&M High School
Location: Moweaqua, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILNOK
OCLC Network: ILLINET
Central A&M Middle School
Location: Moweaqua, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILLCM
OCLC Network: ILLINET
WorldCat update
WorldCat
is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated
at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains
more than 60 million bibliographic records and holdings information contributed
by more than 8,600 libraries around the world. The new Open
WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical
and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching
the Internet.
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