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[Terry Decker]

National Union Catalog.  It's a a publication that was started in the 1950s 
as an extension of the Library of Congress union cataloging project.  There 
are two sections to the catalog, Pre-1956 and Post-1955.  The Pre-56 section 
has been published in hard bound takes 130 feet of shelf space and weighs 
roughly 3 tons.  The NUC is now published as microfiche.  It contains 
roughly 20% more entries than Worldcat, although that is slowly being 
corrected.  The NUC is considered the gold standard for North American 
library catalogs.

I've encountered it once in my researches, so Johnna can certainly provide 
more detail than I.

Bear


<<< All bibliographic catalogs and databases have their errors and 
inconsistencies, but Worldcat beats using the printed volumes of the NUC 
when it comes to a quick search.

Johnna >>>

Uh, for us non-librarians, can you translate that, please?
NUC? why is using the printed volumes important?

Thanks,
  Stefan