  In 2009, Torres-Salinas & Moed proposed the use of library catalogs to
analyze the impact and dissemination of academic books in different ways.
Library Catalog Analysis (LCA) can be defined as the application of
bibliometric techniques to a set of online library catalogs in order to
describe quantitatively a scientific-scholarly field on the basis of published
book titles. The aim of the present chapter is to conduct an in-depth analysis
of major scientific contributions since the birth of LCA in order to determine
the state of the art of this research topic. Hence, our specific objectives
are: 1) to discuss the original purposes of library holdings 2) to present
correlations between library holdings and altmetrics indicators and interpret
their feasible meanings 3) to analyze the principal sources of information 4)
to use WorldCat Identities to identify the principal authors and works in the
field of Informetrics.
