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 | | Seven institutions responded to the call and established the consortium.Two years later, in 1967, LIBRAS had an estimated 400 interlibrary loan transactions, added 26,935 volumes to its collections, and maintained 4,384 periodical subscriptions.LIBRAS libraries spent nearly $183,000 on materials and had total expenditures across the consortium of nearly $635,000.Total volumes held numbered about 568,000. |
 | | Early in 1976 the Kellogg Foundation offered to underwrite the cost of subscribing to the Ohio College Library Center (now the bibliographic utility OCLC).By the end of the year of the LIBRAS libraries were members of OCLC. |
 | | LIBRAS members have been in the vanguard of the library cooperative movement in Illinois.All were charter members of the Illinois Regional Library Council, all joined OCLC, and all affiliated with library systems.The consortium was incorporated as a legal non-profit organization in 1983 as LIBRAS, INC. |
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