The Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus (NCC) is the official Dutch bibliographic catalog and metadata index system that links to and consolidates the catalogs of over 400 libraries in the

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Scope

The NCC contains bibliographic data and locations of more than 14 million books and 500,000

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are found. The database is updated by the libraries that participate in the Gemeenschappelijk Geautomatiseerd Catalogussysteem (GGC; ''Shared Automated Cataloguing System).'' The database is managed jointly by the

National Library of the Netherlands The Royal Library of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB; ''Royal Library'') is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the Ne ...

(Koninklijke Bibliotheek – KB) and OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), a non-profit global cooperative headquartered in

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. The catalog data has been digitized and is openly accessible online, in multiple languages, ''via'' the Dutch website, . A GGC identifier is synonymous with PPN (PICA Production Number), which derives its name from PICA, makers of PiCarta, the main producer of library systems in the Netherlands that was acquired in 2007 by OCLC. NCC, using OCLC technology, offers interlibrary loan among participating institutions, which includes Article Exchange — a

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secure article sharing

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that automatically deletes articles after a specified number of downloads and number of days.

History

The NCC was founded in 1919 through the initiative of

Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Almelo, 20 August' 1870 – The Hague, 15 July 1944) was a Dutch librarian, historian, biographer, and editor of a leading biographical dictionary, the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek. He was librarian of th ...

, PhD (1870–1944), librarian and biographer of the Dutch Royal Library and notable pioneer of

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, who, among other things, spearheaded the first effort on record to centralize a catalog for all books in Dutch libraries. The initial effort culminated in massive collection

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cards stored at the

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. As a precursor for the launch, Molhuysen and Elsa Rachel Oppenheim (1885–1941) — his second of three wives — together, completed in 1916 the ''Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Palais de la Paix,'' for the

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. In the 1970s and 1980s, the indexing was migrated to digital formats, initially to the GGC, then to the NCC. File:P.C.Molhuysen.jpg, File:Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_(7985207450).jpg, File:Schipholweg 99, Leiden, The Netherlands.JPG,

References

External links

Information about NCC Interbibliothecair leenverkeer (Inter Library Loan) on OCLC
(in Dutch)
Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus login
{{Authority control Bibliographic databases and indexes Library catalogues Cooperatives in the Netherlands OCLC Early modern printing databases Archives in the Netherlands Libraries in the Netherlands