WorldCat hits 1 Billion Records

At 2:21:34 p.m. EDT on August 11th, 2005, Anne Slane, a cataloger for Worthington (Ohio) Libraries, entered holdings information for the book The Monkees: The Day-By-Day Story of the 60s Pop Sensation, becoming the one billionth holding record in the WorldCat database. OCLC congratulates Anne and all libraries that contribute data to WorldCat. More information can be found here. Information about libraries that almost had the billionth record is presented.