OCLC

OCLC, Inc.
	OCLC headquarters
Founded	July 5, 1967 (as Ohio College Library Center)
Founder	Fred Kilgour
Type	501(c)3 organization
Tax ID no.	31-0734115
Headquarters	Dublin, Ohio, U.S.
Coordinates	40.1025°N 83.1269°W
Region	Worldwide
Products	WorldCat; Amlib; BIBLIOTHECAplus; Capira; CatExpress; CONTENTdm; Dewey Decimal Classification; EZproxy; FirstSearch; LBS; OLIB; PiCarta; Relais ILL & D2D; SISIS-SunRise; Syndeo; Tipasa; TouchPoint; UnityUK; VDX; WebJunction; Wise; WorldShare;
Members	30,000+ libraries in 100+ countries
President & CEO	Skip Prichard
Revenue (2020–21)	$217.8 million
Website	www.oclc.org

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 as of 2021) for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

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