OCLC
OCLC, Inc.,
doing business as OCLC, is an American nonprofit
cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". 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. OCLC and thousands of its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain
WorldCat, the largest
online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay (around $217.8 million annually in total ) for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the
Dewey Decimal Classification system.
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