WorldCat connects library users to hundreds of millions of electronic resources, including e-books, licensed databases, online periodicals, and collections of digital items. Although your institution may own the same title as a library that is in another state or country, there may be information about your title that is unique.
Using local bibliographic data (LBD), you can add local bibliographic information to a bibliographic record that is specific to your institution's title; however, other institutions will not be able to see that information in the WorldCat record and your users will only see your institution's LBD.
Essentially, LBD is local information that complements the full bibliographic data in the WorldCat database.
Enhance the bibliographic record for local use by adding local subject headings, uniform titles, or notes.
You can create and maintain LBD information in:
In addition, you can view LBD in WorldCat Discovery.
If needed, data sync collections can be used to store local bibliographic data (LBD) that cannot be extracted from bibliographic or local holdings records in WorldCat for display to users of your OCLC discovery interface (WorldCat Local/WorldCat Discovery, WMS).
To create and maintain LBD via data sync collections, you will need:
Additional notes:
SeeĀ Alphabetical list of available local bibliographic data record indexes for a list of searchable indexes.