Worldcat Collection Sets
Streamline
Share
Precataloged
Sets of MARC
Records
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WorldCat
Collection Sets
Save time and money with precataloged sets of MARC records
WorldCat Collection Sets provide you with precataloged sets
of MARC records that match your newly purchased or existing sets of microform,
nonmicroform or electronic content. Each set arrives ready to be downloaded into
your library’s local system.
Instead of cataloging hundreds or thousands of individual
titles, your library saves time and money by purchasing sets
of existing catalog records. And your library’s holding symbol
is automatically set in the OCLC WorldCat database, the
world's largest bibliographic database. With Collection Sets,
you:
• Increase access to and use of your materials by making
them more visible to your users
• Provide better service and increase user satisfaction by
making these records available more quickly through your
local system
• Share cataloging resources—your library receives
OCLC account credit for contributing a set your staff
has cataloged.
Streamlining your library’s workflow
We produce electronic files and attach your library’s holding
symbol to the records in WorldCat. We then send you the
records, which are ready to download into your local system.
Processing options
Various record processing options are available, including
adding and deleting fields, as well as customizing call
numbers (available for most microform sets).
Standing orders
In some cases, we can set up a standing order so that your
library automatically receives the new records that have been
added to a set since you purchased it. Billing for the update
is automatic.
The value of holdings
Accurate holdings information you maintain with the
WorldCat Collection Sets service helps Web searchers find
your library and its resources through WorldCat.org and the
WorldCat Local™ service. WorldCat holdings also help you
to analyze your collection and compare it to others using the
WorldCat Collection Analysis™ service, and help thousands
of libraries keep materials moving through the WorldCat
Resource Sharing™ service.
Getting started
More than 300 Collection Sets are available in a variety
To get started today, contact your OCLC representative or
of subjects. See a list of available sets at www.oclc.org/
regional service provider for complete pricing information.
worldcatsets/sets/.
Then complete an online order form at www.oclc.org/
worldcatsets/ordering/ and select your record processing
options.
Real successes
Many of the WorldCat sets
Our library often buys large sets
“of microforms and thanks to OCLC
“ represent subject areas
requiring cataloging expertise
WorldCat Collection Sets we were
an individual library may not
able to provide access to many
be able to draw upon. As a
of these sets. This year we were
law library that has provided
able to increase our title count
cataloging for several sets,
by 11,691 with minimal cost and
our catalogers are able to
minimal effort. We look forward
approach these sets with a
to continued participation by
level of subject analysis that
libraries in providing cataloging
truly increases patron access.
that we are unable to create. ”
”
Mary E. Johns
Richard Amelung
Electronic Information Services Librarian
Head of Technical Services
Louisiana State University Law Library
Saint Louis University Law Library
WorldCat Collection Sets—at a glance
An important return on your
OCLC investment
Benefits
Requirements
With more than 100 million records,
• Save time and money by
None—OCLC membership is not
WorldCat is the world’s most
downloading precataloged records
required for purchase of WorldCat
comprehensive bibliographic database.
rather than having to catalog items
Collection Sets
WorldCat connects librarians, students,
individually
researchers and other library users to
• Make your collections available
Learn more
4,000 years of recorded knowledge.
more quickly to your users and
For more information on WorldCat
Updated at a rate of nearly one new
resource sharing libraries around
Collection Sets and to see a list of
record every 10 seconds, WorldCat
the world
available sets, visit www.oclc.org/
contains bibliographic records and
holdings information contributed by
• Increase use of new and existing
worldcatsets/.
more than 9,000 libraries around the
materials such as microfilm,
To discuss pricing and place an
world. Learn more about WorldCat and
microfiche and electronic resources
order, contact OCLC Library Services
watch new records enter the database
at 1-800-848-5878 or +1-614-764-
live at www.oclc.org/worldcat/.
Features
6000, or contact your regional service
provider—find yours at www.oclc.
• Precataloged records readily
org/contacts/regional/.
available for high-demand content
collections
• Your library’s holding symbol is
automatically set in WorldCat
• New sets are added continuously
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