OCLC Holding Upgraded

OCLC holdings changed to show ISO country codes. This Sunday, December 10, 2006, OCLC FirstSearch and the WorldCat Resource Sharing web display of library holdings will be improved to show ISO country codes. For US and Canadian libraries, the holdings will display as the ISO country code followed by the state or province code. So for example an Ohio library would appear as US,OH and an Ontario library would appear as CA,ON. Libraries from the rest of the world will display ISO country codes only for the location of the library. This is an improvement, as previously the code provided was for broad and general regions and included codes like EU and ZZ, grouping a large numbers of countries together. Future planned improvements will have the country codes spelled out into the language of that interface. These improvements will be announced before the enhancement is installed.