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Membership criteria

OCLC's Membership Criteria and corresponding services and activities are proposed by OCLC staff and reviewed by the Membership Committee on an annual basis. The Membership Committee comprises Global Council member delegates and members of the Board of Trustees. Any changes must be approved by the Global Council and the Board of Trustees. Here are the current criteria and corresponding services and activities that qualify institutions for membership. An institution must complete at least one of the following activities related to an OCLC service within the past three years:

Membership Criteria as outlined in OCLC's membership definition	Qualifying Cooperative Services and/or Activities
Contributing Metadata Sharing Holdings Information	Cataloging Subscription (e.g., using Connexion, Batchload, Z39.50, etc.) Contract Cataloging CatExpress WorldCat Cataloging Partners GovDoc WorldShare Management Services WorldCat Collection Sets Contributing holdings to WorldCat indirectly by cataloging in a regional/national catalog that is uploaded to WorldCat Contributing holdings to WorldCat through an OCLC contract held by another institution, e.g., contributing through a statewide, national or consortial contract Serials Local Data Records (batchloading Local Holdings Records when records are created)
Sharing staff resources and expertise, such as in a reference cooperative	QuestionPoint: Includes those libraries with QuestionPoint activity that benefits the cooperative, such as contributing to the global knowledge base, referring or receiving questions for the cooperative, etc.
Making digital content available to other members	CONTENTdm: Includes those CONTENTdm libraries that load holdings to WorldCat
Sharing materials using OCLC services	WorldCat Resource Sharing: Any library with borrowing or lending activity, including libraries using WorldCat Resource Sharing under another entity's contract, such as a state or national library

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