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WorldCat.org is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
WorldCat helps you share what makes your library great to make all libraries better. By enabling libraries to share high-quality library metadata and bibliographic records with each other, WorldCat has helped librarians dramatically reduce the time they spend on original cataloging.
WorldCat.org is just the starting point—libraries are your destination. We’ll connect you to a library—maybe one that’s close by, maybe one across the globe—that has what you’re looking for.
Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.
WorldCat.org lets you: 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.
WorldCat.org connects your library to people who may never otherwise visit in-person or online. It expands the communities you serve while personalizing and localizing the experience for the people you care about most.
WorldCat consists of three components: a bibliographic catalog, a knowledge base and a registry for library information. The WorldCat bibliographic catalog includes millions of records covering everything that is available to users in the library.
Introduction to WorldCat.org. WorldCat is the world's most comprehensive database of information about library collections. Unique in scale and unparalleled in data quality, WorldCat makes library collections findable and accessible around the world.
WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. As of December 2021, WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people.
The WorldCat.org database provides localized and personalized content from your library's collection and those of more than 10,000 other WorldCat libraries globally.
