OCLC takes control of library network

Jul 3, 2007, 12:58pm EDT Updated: Jul 3, 2007, 1:00pm EDT

The Dublin-based Online Computer Library Center Inc. has become the sole shareholder of the European library network it has worked with for 30 years.

OCLC said Tuesday is purchased the remaining 40 percent of shares in OCLC Pica Group BV, a European supplier of library software and services. OCLC in 2000 purchased 60 percent of the shares in Pica, a Dutch library service provider that later became incorporated as OCLC Pica Group in 2002.

Jenny Johnson, OCLC spokeswoman, said the purchase is part of an effort to continue collaborating with Pica, which markets several products and services OCLC uses for its library networks in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.

"(The purchase) makes a lot of sense," she said. "It's not so much that this happens and all of the sudden we're figuring out how to act as one company. Over the last several years, we've been working as one company.

OCLC has been sharing data with Pica since 1977.

OCLC provides computer-based cataloging, reference and resource sharing to 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. Company revenue in 2005 totaled $186 million.

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