The North Carolina State Archives does not contribute records to WorldCat. 
Our “catalog” is a home-grown database that supports multi-level 
description; however, it isn’t based on any standardized metadata schema. 
As far as I know we have never done MARC cataloging here. We are 
investigating several content management systems that have the potential 
to export MARC records. In the event that we acquired a system that could 
automate the creation of MARC records, I think there might be a chance 
that we would start contributing to WorldCat. But otherwise, it’s not 
likely that we would create MARC records, since our own “catalog” doesn’t 
even support it. 

For those who do contribute to WorldCat, do you have any evidence that it 
actually enhances discovery of your collections? 

Aaron Cusick
Archivist, Information Management Branch
North Carolina State Archives
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