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• Collections & Technical Services
• Nov. 07
• Issue: 217

Leila Books Now Adding Records to WorldCat

OCLC is pleased to announce that Leila Books is now a participant in OCLC’s Vendor Record Contribution Program.

Leila Books, located in Cairo, Egypt, was established in 1960 as a bookseller and subscription agent. They specialize in serving academic and research libraries and scholars for orders from Egypt and the entire Arab world (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen). Firm orders, approval plans according to profile, and standing orders are all supported by Leila Books.

When a Leila Books record is added or matched toWorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code LEIL. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index [Vendor (vn:) in the drop-down menu]. To view some examples of the records added to WorldCat from Leila Books, search OCLC numbers: #162136760 and #162136772. Examples of records matched are: #79822068 and #84893153

For more information, see the Leila Books web site at http://www.leilabooks.com.

For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, see: http://www.oclc.org/partnerships/material/contribution/technical/default.htm.

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