WorldCat adalah suatu kumpulan katalog yang mencatat isi koleksi 72.000 perpustakaan di 170 negara dan teritori yang termasuk ke dalam koperasi global Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Dioperasikan oleh OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. sementara databasenya dipelihara secara kolektif oleh perpustakaan anggotanya.
Screenshot Berkas:WorldCat homepage.png WorldCat homepage as of June 2019 | |
Jenis situs | Network of library content and services |
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Pemilik | OCLC |
Situs web | www |
Komersial | No |
Daftar akun | Optional, but some features require registration (such as writing reviews and making lists or bibliographies) |
Diluncurkan | 21 Januari 1998 | (date of registry of the new domain name; the database already existed since 1971)
Status | Online |
Lisensi konten | Copyright policy |
OCLC | 756372754 |
Sejarah Sunting
OCLC didirikan tahun 1967, dan pada tahun yang sama Fred Kilgour mendirikan WorldCat, meskipun catatan katalog pertama ditambahkan pada tahun 1971. Memuat lebih dari 330 juta catatan, mewakili lebih dari 2 miliar aset fisik dan digital dalam 485 bahasa, hingga November 2014[update].
Referensi Sunting
- 1998 is the date of registry of the WorldCat.org domain; see: . WHOIS. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 20, 2019. Diakses tanggal 2017-01-21. 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: . WHOIS. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 26, 2019. Diakses tanggal 2019-06-26.
- ^ "A global library resource". Online Computer Library Center. Diakses tanggal January 24, 2014.
- "What is WorldCat?". worldcat.org. Diakses tanggal 13 February 2015.
- "Our Story". oclc.org. 2014. Diakses tanggal November 11, 2014.
- 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.
- "A brief history of WorldCat". oclc.org. February 10, 2015. Diakses tanggal February 13, 2014.
Pustaka tambahan Sunting
- Grossman, Wendy M. (21 January 2009). "Why you can't find a library book in your search engine". The Guardian.
Pranala luar Sunting
Lihat pula Sunting
- Copac, dilayani oleh Research Libraries UK
- Library and Archives Canada
- Research Libraries UK