North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre to add 19 million records to WorldCat

"The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), a library consortium in Germany's most populous state, has signed an agreement with OCLC to add 19 million bibliographic records from the consortium to WorldCat, making these valuable collections more visible and accessible to scholars around the world. Based in Cologne, hbz works as a central development and service organization for university, college and specialized libraries, as well as data processing centers in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. With the addition of hbz records, the collections of all six German library consortia regions and the German National Library will be included in WorldCat, the world's largest online database of items held in libraries."

Die vollständige Pressemitteilung von OCLC vom 28.09.2015 kann unter http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2015/201506Oberhaching.en.html nachgelesen werden.