OCLC 1967-1997 commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of OCLC's founding as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization on July 6, 1967. As chapters show, the OCLC story is fundamentally one of the power of library cooperation for the common good. It is also a story of the age-old dream of people seeking more information and using modern technology to further access and reduce costs. Finally, the story is a tribute to member libraries, regional networks, international distributors, and, most ...
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OCLC 1967-1997 commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of OCLC's founding as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization on July 6, 1967. As chapters show, the OCLC story is fundamentally one of the power of library cooperation for the common good. It is also a story of the age-old dream of people seeking more information and using modern technology to further access and reduce costs. Finally, the story is a tribute to member libraries, regional networks, international distributors, and, most of all, to the thousands of anonymous catalogers and librarians who, keystroke by keystroke, record by record, have created a commons for the world's libraries that has forever altered scholarship and research.
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