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As part of their commitment to expand WorldCat support for full Unicode characters and scripts, OCLC will begin a 2 week project on Thursday 8 December 2016 to re-index WorldCat for use with all applications and article-level records searchable in WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat.org. When complete, users will be able to search using full UTF-8 characters, resulting in improved, worldwide discovery of non-Latin titles and articles.

During this time patrons may experience situations where non-Latin titles (particularly Japanese and Arabic) do not appear in search results when searching on non-Latin script data. Searching on Latin script data (if available) as well as identifiers including OCLC numbers and ISBNs will continue to retrieve the items.

Affected Services:
FirstSearch                                                                                          WorldShare ILL
WorldShare Management Services                                          WorldShare Record Manager
WorldShare Collection Manager                                                WorldCat
WorldCat Local                                                                                  WorldCat API
WorldCat Discovery API

Thank you,
OCLC Support
OCLC
6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, OH 43017-3395
http://www.oclc.org/

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Jayne Dickson
CDL Information Services
California Digital Library
University of California
510.987.0550
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