id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4448 WorldCat - Wikipedia .html text/html 2099 340 64 For information on using WorldCat links in Wikipedia articles, see Template:OCLC. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 15,600 libraries in 107 countries[3] that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. In 2003, OCLC began the "Open WorldCat" pilot program, making abbreviated records from a subset of WorldCat available to partner web sites and booksellers, to increase the accessibility of its subscribing member libraries' collections.[9][10] As an alternative, WorldCat allows participating institutions to add direct links from WorldCat to their own catalog entries for a particular item, which enables the user to determine its real-time status.[21] However, this still requires users to open multiple Web pages, each pointing to a different online public access catalog with its own distinctive user interface design (which places item status in a different portion of the Web browser display), until they can locate a catalog entry that shows the item is currently available at a particular library. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4448.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4448.txt