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2,000,000,000
holdings and growing...


On May 4, the University of Alberta Libraries created the 2,000,000,000th holding record in WorldCat, marking a major milestone for this unique library resource.

For the past 40 years, libraries like yours have worked together to build, sustain and improve WorldCat. These cooperative efforts get information seekers to the answers they need, and help other libraries be more efficient.

Congratulations to you—the OCLC community—on making this great achievement possible.

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28 May 2013

ELAG 2013 Conference

ELAG is the annual conference of the European Libraries Automation Group in Belgium.

04 June 2013

Meet the new WorldShare ILL

WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, the new service that will replace WorldCat Resource Sharing, is now available.

06 June 2013

Meet the new WorldShare ILL

WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, the new service that will replace WorldCat Resource Sharing, is now available.

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