This study, an analysis of the foreign approval plans for Romance languages at the University of Alabama Libraries, investigates the use of WorldCat as an assessment tool. The technique employs the capability in WorldCat to limit to a specific library collection and thereby to compare and contrast library collections. The analysis provides results that reveal relative strengths and weaknesses within the collections. The WorldCat default ranking by library holdings provides title lists for future collection development. In establishing comparisons among collections and highlighting missing titles, the technique uses basic WorldCat to mimic some of the features of OCLC's Worldcat Collection Analysis, a subscription product derived from the WorldCat database.