Not random at all. When we joined OCLC a couple of years back one benefit we expected was to make our collection visible to the world through worldcat.org. We have lots of materials where we are the only holder or one of a very few. Very disappointed to find that though they were visible for ILL and copy cataloging to librarians, they weren't visible to researchers.

If you find any VERY low cost way to make them visible please let me know. The OCLC subscription was a stretch for us.

Thanks,
David Bigwood
Library, Regional Planetary Image Facility
Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Hello all,

Do you all know that if organizations don't pay for a subscription to Firstsearch, their holdings don't show up in Worldcat.org? 

It's quite an expensive subscription too and I'm wondering if anyone has negotiated a lower cost with OCLC? or if you've found another way to find bulk holdings for organizations that don't appear in worldcat.org?

Thanks. Kind of a random question for this group but I thought I'd ask.

Angie