This is one cool and useful resource from WorldCat.org that might be of value even if you are not looking for a specific title. Loads of useful info, charts, and even tag clouds.
We’ve just incorporated WorldCat Identities into WorldCat.org navigation proper, rather than having to satellite out to a listing and then find your own way back. You can get to a WorldCat Identities page from the “Find more information about” drop-down in the Details section of a detailed record:
WorldCat Identities is one of those fun things we like to play around with, here at OCLC. It showcases things you don’t find many other places–like you can see the most widely held works by a writer, or how one fictional character is related to another one, or get a visual for publication timelines, or audience recommendation levels, or, or, or…there’s a lot of good stuff there.
Four Examples:
The WorldCat Identity Page for Melvil Dewey
The Worldcat Identity for President Barack Obama
The WorldCat Identity for Judy Blume
The WorldCat Identity page for Kurt Vonnegut
Source: WorldCat.org Blog
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