• Collections & Technical Services
• June 07
• Issue: 213

OCLC WorldCat Collection Analysis: Latest Quarterly Update and Additional Language Limits

The latest quarterly update for Worldcat Collection Analysis has been completed. Data in WCA will reflect changes made to holdings in WorldCat as of March 25, 2007.

In this recent update OCLC increased the number of languages you can limit your analyses by from 30 to 54. The 24 new languages are:

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Armenian
• Bengali
• Bosnian
• Catalan
• Croatian
• Finnish
• Gujarati
• Macedonian
• Malay
• Marathi
• Panjabi
• Sanskrit
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Tibetan
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Yiddish

NOTE: The number of languages you can limit an analysis by on the Limit Analysis screen is determined by the number of languages represented in the collection you are analyzing. If the collection you are analyzing does not contain any records of a particular language, you will not have the option to limit your analysis to that language on the Limit Analysis screen. This is to avoid searches that will return 0 results.

For more information about World Cat Collection Analysis, contact Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org) or Jennifer Hawkes (hawkesj@nylink.org) at Nylink. You may also wish to visit http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis.

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Collections & Technical Services Contact Information

Please contact Lauren Pinsley (pinsleyl@nylink.org), Lynne Graziadei (graziadeil@nylink.org) or Mary Edgerton (edgertonm@nylink.org) at Nylink with any questions. They are available via email or phone (518-443-5444/800-342-3353).