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What the OCLC online union catalog means to me : a collection of essays
The Library of Congress provides a gateway for searching the OCLC Catalog (Manuscript materials) -- close to 300,000 catalog records describing archival and manuscript collections in public, college and university, and special libraries located throughout North America and around the world.
OCLC’s team of expert catalogers and data quality specialists constantly enrich WorldCat records with new and corrected information to ensure that WorldCat contains the highest quality records possible.
OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation.
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OCLC assigns a unique accession number referred to as an "OCN", an "OCLC Control Number" or an "OCLC number" to each new bibliographic record in WorldCat. This is somewhat analogous to how the Library of Congress assigns an "LCCN" or a "Library of Congress Control Number" to its bibliographic records (but LCCNs can be prefixed and are thus ...
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OCLC is a global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large.
OCLC products help libraries address these challenges by sharing data, streamlining workflows and connecting people to the knowledge held in the world's library collections.