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The OCLC Cooperative

Governing Members: 8,660
Members: 13,554
Participating libraries: 47,669
Libraries outside the United States: 9,708
FirstSearch libraries: 20,310
Countries & territories served: 84

WorldCat

Highest OCLC record number: 54,423,518
Languages in WorldCat: 458
Total OCLC Interlibrary Loan service requests (since 1979): 133,256,088
Total end user searches of WorldCat on FirstSearch (since 1991): 160,726,683*

*excluding training symbols

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Format

Number of records

Percentage of total

Locations of items cataloged

Books

43,006,181

83.51%

831,060,619

Serials

2,554,647

4.96%

27,692,521

Visual materials

1,674,988

3.25%

15,725,384

Maps

737,021

1.43%

3,670,785

Mixedmaterials

328,390

0.64%

397,986

Sound recordings

1,796,901

3.49%

20,258,634

Scores

1,195,261

2.32%

9,178,792

Computer files

204,715

0.40%

981,366

Totals

51,498,494

100.00%

908,966,087
as of January 2004

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