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 Tuesday, September 23, 2003

WorldCat Facts.

"Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 53 million records representing 896,844,363 holding locations as of September 20, 2003. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 129,315,193 interlibrary loan requests as of September 20, 2003. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second." From OCLC Abstracts, Sept. 22, 2003.
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/design/abstracts/09222003/index.htm

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