id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ua2vd3s3frbtnej62cmgxjx2fe Magda El-Sherbini Open WorldCat and Its Impact on Academic Libraries 2007 22 .pdf application/pdf 8814 766 60 This paper analyzes librarians' reactions to the Open OCLC WorldCat. A detailed survey was sent to ARL provides access to bibliographic and location information on library materials via the Web. to bring the library to the Internet user by opening the WorldCat database to Web searchers The survey response was 54 (43.9 percent) out of 123 ARL libraries responding. (DC) is used by 41 percent of the respondents who use it to catalog library Web content and In Table 7, nearly 90 percent of all respondents indicated that they have significant uncataloged collections, while 11 percent mentioned that they have no un-cataloged materials. of libraries (75.5 percent) responded that they will be cataloging at full bibliographic level library collections made available to users regardless of how Open WorldCat might impact the bibliographic records not because of the Open WorldCat initiative, but to provide quality access ./cache/work_ua2vd3s3frbtnej62cmgxjx2fe.pdf ./txt/work_ua2vd3s3frbtnej62cmgxjx2fe.txt