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Why use OCLC / WorldCat?

April 26, 2017OCLC WorldCat

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Why use OCLC / WorldCat?

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Because it is the best place to locate just about anything and it is online! The online catalog collection represents more than 24,000 libraries in 63 countries. WorldCat is available for free to all of the MSASS / Case Community. WorldCat is part of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 57 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media. If the publication you need is not owned by Case and not in OhioLINK, then you may request the material via ILLiad (Harris Library InterLibrary Loan ). Searchable Fields in WorldCat – The following is a list of all the searchable fields in WorldCat and the abbreviation used for that field: -KEYWORD kw= -ACCESSION NUMBER no= -AUTHOR au= -AUTHOR PHRASE au= -CONFERENCE NAME cn= -CONFERENCE NAME PHRASE cn= -DESCRIPTOR de= -DESCRIPTOR PHRASE de= -GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE PHRASE gc= (searches geographic subject headings) -LANGUAGE ln= -NAMED CONFERENCE PHRASE cf= -NAMED PERSON PHRASE na= -PLA