Reference Online: subscription-based electronic services for English public libraries

OCLC WorldCat

www.oclc.org/worldcat

WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, the merged catalogues of thousands of OCLC member libraries. Built and maintained collectively by librarians throughout the world, WorldCat provides the foundation for a number of other OCLC services and the many benefits they provide to library users.

The key statistics for the world's biggest union catalogue run by the largest library cooperative include:

• Over 63 million bibliographic records
• More than one billion holdings
• Some 54,000 participating libraries use and contribute to the catalogue and is growing
• More than 400 languages represented
• Information on books, websites, computer files, journals, audio-visual materials, maps, musical scores and more

What makes OCLC's WorldCat-enabled services truly indispensable is their value to library users, who can now access WorldCat's vast resources, 4,000 years of recorded history, and find what they need, on their own. WorldCat is a powerful multi-faceted global knowledgebase, providing the end user regardless of their background or need, with a world of information within a single resource.

How to Subscribe
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Andrew Evans
Sales – UK & South Africa
7th Floor, Tricorn House, 51-53 Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8TP 
tel. 0121 456 4656; fax 0121 456 4680
e-mail a.evans@oclcpica.org
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