Developed specifically for small public and school libraries that acquire 2,000 titles or less on a yearly basis, CatExpress does not require knowledge of the MARC bibliographic format. Libraries can purchase CatExpress individually or as members of a consortia. Annual subscriptions are available based on the anticipated level of cataloging activity so libraries will know up front what their cataloging costs will be. Individual libraries will be billed annually for this service.
Consortia can choose to be billed monthly or annually.
Individual billing is not available for consortia members. During CatExpress pilot projects in Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio, many libraries reported cataloging hit rates that approached 99 percent. Materials cataloged included videos, computer software and foreign language books. Hit rates will vary from library to library. CatExpress users will have access to all of the records in WorldCat, now numbering more than 41 million.