The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), a library consortium in Germany's most populous state, has signed an agreement with OCLC to add 19 million bibliographic records from the consortium to WorldCat, making these valuable collections more visible and accessible to scholars around the world.
Based in Cologne, hbz works as a central development and service organisation for university, college and specialised libraries, as well as data processing centers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With the addition of hbz records, the collections of all six German library consortia regions and the German National Library will be included in WorldCat, the world's largest online database of items held in libraries.
WorldCat is a set of databases that together comprise the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. WorldCat data is contributed, maintained and shared by libraries around the world. It is managed and enhanced by OCLC. The data supports a range of OCLC and partner services, driving efficiency in library management, improving discovery of library collections and increasing the visibility of libraries on the Web.
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