Mission
Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation.
Vision
The world's libraries. Connected.
Quality policy
OCLC will continually improve the processes used to deliver its products and services to achieve the OCLC Vision.
Canada activities
OCLC Canada supports the mission and vision with these activities:
- Providing libraries in Canada with easy access to OCLC's rich information resources
- Promoting the mutual sharing of resources and information between Canada and other countries
- Providing libraries in Canada with access to a wide range of services; from cataloging and interlibrary loan to databases and online delivery of full-text information
- Undertaking cooperative programs to further the development of information science and research
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Articles of Incorporation
OCLC's objectives 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.
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