OCLC and the Bibliothèque nationale de France signed an agreement today to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC WorldCat…
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and OCLC signed the agreement in Paris today, setting in motion plans for OCLC to process an estimated 13.2 million bibliographic records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Once records are added to WorldCat, they will be more visible and accessible to Web users worldwide through WorldCat.org, the destination for search and discovery of library materials on the Web.
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OCLC and the Bibliothèque nationale de France have worked together on other projects, such as the cooperative effort to create the Virtual International Authority File (Fichier d’Autorité International Virtuel), which virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service, and French translations of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.Overall, 34 national libraries have begun adding digital images, national files and bibliographies to WorldCat by both batchloading and online contribution. WorldCat is now growing even faster than last year, when libraries set a new high by adding 22.2 million records. At the start of the 2009 fiscal year, there were 108 million records in WorldCat. With two weeks yet to go in fiscal 2009, libraries have already added 29 million records.
Source: OCLC
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