Q: What is WorldCat?
A: WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. WorldCat libraries like Not Forgotten are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information. Unique in scale and unparalleled in data quality, WorldCat makes library collections findable and accessible around the world.
WorldCat itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. Records are created of all (150 year and 300year) NotForgotten Legacy Products and held in the database.
The International Time Capsule Society collects and oversees time capsule registrations from all over the world, of all types of time capsules, and has received many thousands of registrations for over 30 years. On receipt of a new registration the ITCS catalogs each time in the NotForgotten Library Depository and provides public access to the Time Capsule records.
In 2020 through formal deaccession, the physical and digital records of time capsules that Oglethorpe University holds in its possession were permanently transferred to the NotForgotten Library Depository thereby consolidating the registry of time capsules held in the NotForgotten Library Depository together with those held by Oglethorpe University on behalf of the International Time Capsule society.
All registrations received on hardcopy between 1990-2020 by the Society are currently being mapped and digitized on behalf of ITCS by NotForgotten by volunteer transcribers and submitted to the WorldCat.
New registrations and volunteers can be submitted through the ITCS website.