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OCLC, Inc. OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, [4] 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". [2] It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library ...
The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. [6] OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the ...
OCLC PICA was a library automation systems and services company which originated from a co-operation of the Pica Foundation (Stichting Pica) of the Netherlands and the non-profit library company OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) of the U.S. In 2007, OCLC acquired the shares of OCLC PICA it did not already hold to become the sole owner ...
Main article: OCLC. Founded in 1967, OCLC is a worldwide library cooperative, owned, governed and sustained by its members. OCLC serves 17,900 member institutions in 123 countries and territories. [5] OCLC provides economical services to libraries to help manage their collections and services in a cost-effective way that scales.
The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.
MARC standards. MARC (machine-readable cataloging) is a standard set of digital formats for the machine-readable description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to structure their catalog records as per an industry-wide standard, which ...
The database is managed jointly by the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek – KB) and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), a non-profit global cooperative headquartered in Dublin, Ohio. The catalog data has been digitized and is openly accessible online, in multiple languages, via the Dutch website, PiCarta .
Online public access catalog. The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries.