world cat
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August 13, 2022
WorldCat - a central catalog combining the collections of 71 thousand. libraries from 112 countries participating in the Online Computer Library Center. The catalog is created and maintained by the libraries whose collections are included in it. It is the largest bibliographic database in the world. It contains over 150 million different records relating to over 1.4 billion physical and digital assets in over 470 languages. OCLC makes WorldCat available to all libraries for free, but the catalog is also the basis for other services - paid - such as resource sharing and collection management.