n.the bibliographic utility of the Research Libraries Group’s union catalog from 1980 to 2006OCLC 2020b1980: While expanding its membership to include key university research libraries across the country, RLG builds a unique shared cataloging database: the RLIN Union Catalog.Smith-Yoshimura, Schuitema, and Harcourt 2020, 218In July 2006, RLG and OCLC announced their merger and RLG’s online catalog, RLIN, became part of OCLC WorldCat.
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The Research Libraries Group merged with OCLC in 2006, and OCLC WorldCat acquired the RLIN data.