WorldCat

WorldCat adalah suatu kumpulan katalog yang mencatat isi koleksi 72.000 perpustakaan di 170 negara dan teritori^[2] yang termasuk ke dalam koperasi global Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Dioperasikan oleh OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.^[3] sementara databasenya dipelihara secara kolektif oleh perpustakaan anggotanya.

WorldCat
Berkas:WorldCat homepage.png WorldCat homepage as of June 2019
URL	search.worldcat.org
Tipe	Network of library content and services
Bersifat komersial?	No
Pendaftaran	Optional, but some features require registration (such as writing reviews and making lists or bibliographies)
Bahasa	Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Czech Dutch English French German Italian Korean Japanese Portuguese Spanish Thai Urdu
Lisensi	Copyright policy
Online Computer Library Center	756372754
Pemilik	OCLC
Berdiri sejak	21 Januari 1998; 26 tahun lalu (1998-01-21) (date of registry of the new domain name; the database already existed since 1971)[1]
Lokasi kantor pusat	Dublin (en)
Negara	Amerika Serikat
Peringkat Alexa	5.234 (9 September 2020) 3.756 (1r Desember 2021)
Status	Online

Sejarah

OCLC didirikan tahun 1967,^[4] dan pada tahun yang sama Fred Kilgour mendirikan WorldCat,^[5] meskipun catatan katalog pertama ditambahkan pada tahun 1971.^[6] Memuat lebih dari 330 juta catatan, mewakili lebih dari 2 miliar aset fisik dan digital dalam 485 bahasa, hingga November 2014^[update].^[2]

Referensi

1. 1998 is the date of registry of the WorldCat.org domain; see: "WorldCat.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 20, 2019. Diakses tanggal 2017-01-21. Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan) However, the union catalog that became WorldCat was started three decades earlier, and it was already available on the web to subscriber libraries at OCLC.org several years before WorldCat.org was a registered domain name; see: "OCLC.org WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 26, 2019. Diakses tanggal 2019-06-26. Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
2. "A global library resource". Online Computer Library Center. Diakses tanggal January 24, 2014.
3. "What is WorldCat?". worldcat.org. Diakses tanggal 13 February 2015.
4. "Our Story". oclc.org. 2014. Diakses tanggal November 11, 2014.
5. Margalit Fox (August 2, 2006). "Frederick G. Kilgour, Innovative Librarian, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-22. Frederick G. Kilgour, a distinguished librarian who nearly 40 years ago transformed a consortium of Ohio libraries into what is now the largest library cooperative in the world, making the catalogs of thousands of libraries around the globe instantly accessible to far-flung patrons, died on Monday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 92.
6. "A brief history of WorldCat". oclc.org. February 10, 2015. Diakses tanggal February 13, 2014.

Pustaka tambahan

• Grossman, Wendy M. (21 January 2009). "Why you can't find a library book in your search engine". The Guardian.

Pranala luar

• Situs web resmi
• OCLC - "Web scale" discovery and delivery of library resources
• OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards
• WorldCat Identities

Lihat pula

• Copac, dilayani oleh Research Libraries UK
• Library and Archives Canada
• Research Libraries UK