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From looking at the LC website, it looks like there is a one-time cost of $30,450 for all the retrospective records from 1968-2005. But then it's $21,025 for weekly updates throughout the 2006, or $24,025 for daily updates. (One year is estimated to include 1,000,000 records, including 387,000 new records.) So it's the keeping up-to-date that is the real expense, since it's $20,000+ every year. http://www.loc.gov/cds/mds.html#complete -Keith p.s. If you could wait until 2007, then 2006 would be included in the retrospective records. Or you could even wait a decade and really save money... and by that time maybe they'll be free at last :-) On 9/5/06, Houghton,Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It is my understanding that OCLC *pays* LC several thousands > of dollars, per year, for access to their MARC records...