Hi Everyone,
One of the sessions at this years Cataloguing & Indexing Group Conference is:
Everything you always wanted to know about WorldCat (but were afraid to ask) Paul Shackleton OCLC
WorldCat has been around since 1971 and is the reason why OCLC exists. WorldCat now has 415 million records and 2.6 billion holdings for over 70,000 libraries worldwide. In North America WorldCat and OCLC’s cataloguing tools have been the default choice of libraries for metadata description. Despite, or maybe because of, this dominant position in North America OCLC has been less well known elsewhere.
This interactive will take a practical walk through WorldCat, how it is built and maintained, what tools and resources are available, and how you can contribute and benefit from working with WorldCat. More importantly this is an opportunity for attendees to pose questions on any aspect of WorldCat, from standards to discoverability to sending records and receiving and understanding reports.
This is a technical session aimed at practitioners and topics covered will include: data sync, documentation, indexes and searching, FRBR and clustering, matching and merging, quality control, local data, and how to get more involved and help steer the future of WorldCat.
CIG would like to extend an invitation to any cataloguer CIG Conference delegate/CIG member or not, to send questions regarding any of the above to [log in to unmask] by Monday 20th August.
We will pose as many questions as possible & publish the answers for the benefit of all.
Thank you!
Jane Daniels
Vice-Chair
CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group
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