What is World Cat

[kulkarni bhavana vivek]

What is World Cat ?

[Jayshree Dave]

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

What am I searching?

WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. WorldCat grows every day thanks to the efforts of librarians and other information professionals.

With WorldCat.org you can:

* Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby
* Find books, music, and videos to check out
* Find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded
* Link to "Ask a Librarian" and other services at your library
* Post your review of an item, or contribute factual information about it

[Parvez Ahmad]

Dear Vivek
WorldCat is a union catalog which itemizes the collections of 71,000 libraries in 112 countries which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. It is built and maintained collectively by the participating libraries. (Wiki 2010)

for more details go to below hyperlinks
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I hope this will help you.

pvz

[surendra sethy]

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

[Hemlata Chanchal]

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public. Because WorldCat libraries serve diverse communities in dozens of countries, resources are available in many languages.

[Dr. Anoop Kumar Bajpai]

OCLC provid subcription based services thtoug the worldcat connexion. e-Granth project sanctioned by ICAR for 12 agricultural universities all over india. CCS haryana agricultural university is the university where the project is runing and using worldcat connexion catalouging. in the connexion we inter passward and username provide by them. after we click on cataloguing menu and enter ISBN no. and other searchable field like author, title.......etc.
after worldcat match the record and disply on ur com screen and we put up our institional code and acc. no other information. In ccshau library have 3,20,000 record send in oclc and manual and online catalouing is progress daily. I am the research associate in the project i u wana to more detail u can ask me.