Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow ...
American Libraries

WorldCat Policy Revision Draws Librarians’ Ire

OCLC’s proposed “Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records,” released November 2 and revised November 5 and 19 (PDF file), has been greeted with a host of critical blog postings and two online ...
Publishers Weekly

OCLC Sues Clarivate Over Potential WorldCat Competitor

Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC (the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections) has filed a federal lawsuit against Clarivate and its ...
Medicine Buffalo

Libraries staff marks a WorldCAT milestone

After years of trying and several near misses, the UB Libraries' Central Services Staff succeeded in establishing a milestone on WorldCAT, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) database by ...
cursus.edu

WorldCat, the largest network of library resources and services

WorldCat bills itself as the world's largest network of library resources and services with more than 2 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. This service allows you to search for ...
American Libraries

Cash-Strapped Ohio Library Drops Out of WorldCat ILL

As part of its quest to close a $14-million shortfall for FY2010, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library has ended its participation in OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing so it can close the library’s ...