3:59 p.m., Sept. 17, 2008----The University of Delaware Library now provides access to WorldCat Local, the world's largest network of library-based content and services. The University of Delaware Library is one of the first libraries in the nation to offer this new service.

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WorldCat Local encompasses the holdings of more than 10,000 libraries around the world, including the University of Delaware Library. It includes records for more than 100 million books, CDs, DVDs, maps and Internet resources, as well as archival materials. The database is continually updated, with a new record added, on average, every 10 seconds

WorldCat Local also contains more than 57 million article-level records from more than 36,000 journals and 100,000 conference proceedings extracted from the ArticleFirst, British Library Inside Serials, ERIC, GPO (Government Printing Office), H.W. Wilson and PubMed databases.

Now, in a single search, users can easily identify a wide range of high-quality research materials, as well as browse search results by author, format or year of publication.

Records for items typically include cover art, links to book reviews and electronic versions, when they are available. Other electronic resources will be immediately accessible through the Article Express service of the University of Delaware Library, and items not physically held by the library also can be requested in this manner. With a simple click, users can change the default interface to German, Spanish, French, Dutch or Chinese.

“WorldCat Local: Search The University of Delaware Library and Beyond” is now a featured search box on the library's home page [www.udel.edu/library], and users also can go directly to WorldCat Local at [udel.worldcat.org/]. For more information about WorldCat local, go to [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/database/worldcatlocal.html].

The electronic library of the University of Delaware Library, which is available around the clock at [www.udel.edu/library], provides access for faculty, students and staff of the University to an array of online library resources, including WorldCat Local, DELCAT, databases, full-text information, electronic journals and newspapers, subject guides to the Internet, the Institutional Repository and much more.

Additionally, workshops on WorldCat Local will be offered at the library later this fall.