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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC\n\n\n00:00:47 1 History
00:03:25 2 Services
00:05:27 3 Software
00:05:44 4 Research
00:07:06 5 Advocacy
00:09:04 6 Online database: WorldCat
00:10:27 7 Identifiers and linked data
00:12:20 8 Company acquisitions
00:13:43 9 Criticism
00:14:16 10 See also
\n\n\nListening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.\n\nLearning by listening is a great way to:\n- increases imagination and understanding\n- improves your listening skills\n- improves your own spoken accent\n- learn while on the move\n- reduce eye strain\n\nNow learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.\n\nListen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:\nhttps://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91\nOther Wikipedia audio articles at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts\nUpload your own Wikipedia articles through:\nhttps://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts\nSpeaking Rate: 0.9460094664702783\nVoice name: en-GB-Wavenet-A\n\n\n"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."\n- Socrates\n\n\nSUMMARY\n=======\nOCLC Online Computer Library Center, Incorporated d/b/a 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. OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world. OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services (around $200 million annually as of 2016). OCLC also maintains the Dewey Decimal Classification system.