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Online Library Computer Center (OCLC)


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Dublin, OH   43017-0702
614-764-6000

Source:  OCLC Annual Report 1989/90, OCLC, Inc., Dublin, OH, 1990.

Mission Statement

The purpose or purposes for which this Corporation is formed are to establish, maintain, and operate a computerized library network and to promote the evolution of library use, of libraries themselves, and of librarianship, and to provide processes and products for the benefit of library users and libraries, including such objectives as increasing availability of library resources to individual library patrons and reducing the rate-of-rise of library per-unit costs, all for the fundamental public purpose of furthering ease of access to and use of the ever-expanding body of worldwide scientific, literary and educational knowledge and information.

Note:  Excerpted from the Articles of Incorporation of OCLC Online 
Computer Library Center, Incorporated
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