The Watch WorldCat grow site is always fun to look at. Right now it is showing 999,410,268 holdings. Estimates are that we'll hit 1,000,000,000 this week.
--Th
Update August 11, 2005: I guess it happened, but you can't tell because we turned off the site, evidently to avoid the possibility that someone would see 1,000,000,000 holdings go by and assume that the displayed bib record is the one that got the holding (and our Content Management System was melting down from all the watchers!). I was disappointed not to watch.
Update August 12, 2005: It's official, it really did happen yesterday. There's a page here about it, along with the log showing who just missed it (there were three other holdings added in the same second, about normal for that time of day). Just in case that page changes, here's the interesting part.
--Th
Thom, WorldCat grow was turned off because it seems everyone in the world was watching and it was causing serious server problems, oops...
Posted by: Andrew Houghton | August 11, 2005 at 16:49