December 11, 2006
OCLC Holdings Changed to Show ISO Country Codes
OCLC FirstSearch and the WorldCat Resource Sharing Web display of library holdings were improved December 10, and now show ISO country codes. For U.S. and Canadian libraries, the holdings display as the ISO country code followed by the state or province code. (See sample page.)
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.
