The Norwegian Library Center (Biblioteksentralen SA) has selected OCLC to enable public libraries in Norway to load records of their collections into WorldCat, the comprehensive database of information about library collections.
The Norwegian Library Center is a public cooperative owned by 416 municipalities, 15 counties, the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, and the Norwegian Library Association. It is the primary supplier of books and metadata to public libraries in Norway.
Public libraries in Norway make use of the Norwegian Library Center's centralised library catalogue system, BIBBI, which comprises 283,000 bibliographic records; 16,000 records are added to the catalogue each year.
By adding their records to WorldCat, these public libraries in Norway increase visibility of their collections around the world and support a variety of network services, such as global resource sharing, collection evaluation and collection management.
Libraries cooperatively contribute, enhance and share bibliographic data through WorldCat, connecting people to cultural and scholarly resources in libraries worldwide. Each record in the WorldCat database contains a bibliographic description of a single title or work and a list of institutions that hold the item. Institutions share these records, using them to create local catalogues, arrange interlibrary loans and conduct reference work. Libraries contribute records for titles not found in WorldCat using OCLC shared cataloguing systems.
WorldCat gives people the ability to view library collections from anywhere in the world, giving them access to a rich assortment of information much deeper than what can be found through a basic internet search. There are 491 languages and dialects represented in WorldCat, and 62 percent of records are in languages other than English.
Collections represented in WorldCat span more than 5,000 years of recorded knowledge. This unique collection of information encompasses records in a variety of formats including books, e-books, DVDs, digital resources, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, maps, visual materials, mixed materials, computer files and more.
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