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| September 04, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Tracey Caldwell

Library resources are more visible on the web following the launch of OCLC's WorldCat website. Users can search the catalogues of more than 10,000 libraries, and institutions can add a downloadable WorldCat search box to their sites.

Users can search the complete WorldCat database rather than the smaller subsets provided by Open WorldCat, which makes available only those records and materials owned by libraries syndicated ...

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