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OCLC website request errors

This graph shows OCLC errors and response times for the website over the past day. Website status and slowness is related to downtime for OCLC and errors for their site.

OCLC outage report graph

This chart above shows OCLC error reports submitted in the past 24 hours (one day) compared to the recent average over similar days. The status of OCLC is marked as "down" when the number of reported errors is significantly higher than the average errors.



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OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs". It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center as it expanded. In 2017, the name was formally changed to OCLC, Inc. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries pay for the many different services it offers. OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

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