OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC,[1] is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".[2] It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc.[1] OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.[3] OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay (around $200 million annually in total (as of 2016) for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Certificate of Amendment of the Amended Articles of Incorporation of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.. Ohio Secretary of State (June 26, 2017).
- ↑ About OCLC (en-US). OCLC.
- ↑ Oswald, Godfrey (2017). "Largest unified international library catalog", Library world records, 3rd, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 291. ISBN 9781476667775. OCLC 959650095.