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We offer a variety of events both physical and virtual for different engagement and comfort levels. You can decide what’s best for you based on what you need to know. Use this list to keep informed of upcoming meetings, conferences, events, and webinars that OCLC plans to host or attend.
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10 April 2025
Safeguarding public libraries: Cybersecurity best practices and solutions
Join us for a comprehensive webinar on cybersecurity in public libraries, where we will delve into the evolving threats targeting public libraries and share best practices to enhance security measures.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 April 2025
E-Medienverwaltung in WMS und WorldCat Discovery: Lizenzen und Kollektionen einfach verwalten. (German)
Kostenloses OCLC Produkt Web-Seminar 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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16 April 2025
RSC25 | The custom holdings connection: Enhancing ILL efficiency
In this session, we’ll discuss how to design and update custom holdings for ILL borrowing to make the best use of automations offered by OCLC, take advantage of consortial borrowing agreements, and explore new borrowing opportunities.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 April 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Using metrics to gain insights into born-digital archival workflows
Join this webinar to learn how data about born-digital archival workflows can provide insights that may support decision-making and resource allocation.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 April 2025
AskQC office hours: Accessibility metadata in bibliographic records
Join OCLC Metadata Quality staff to discuss WorldCat quality issues and cataloging questions.
- Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 April 2025 - 18 April 2025
Colorado Resource Sharing Conference
OCLC to participate at the Colorado Resource Sharing Conference
- Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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27 April 2025 - 29 April 2025
Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference
OCLC to participate in the Connecticut Library Association Annual Conference
- Location: Groton, CT
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30 April 2025
WMS-Erwerbung: Alles vereint unter einer Oberfläche. (German)
Kostenloses OCLC Produkt Web-Seminar 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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07 May 2025 - 09 May 2025
British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Conference
OCLC to participate at the BCLA Conference
- Location: Territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, in Nanaimo
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | The side effects of ILL: How ILL requests sparked collaboration and impacted holdings
University Libraries staff from Information Systems, Cataloging and Metadata, Electronic Resources, and Interlibrary Loan at the University of Memphis Libraries will share how interlibrary lending has initiated short and long-term projects that improve the experiences of our libraries users.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | OCR they? A data project to estimate how many ILL borrowing documents have optical character recognition
This session will present a project where the University of Minnesota Libraries evaluated PDF files delivered to patrons to get a better sense of how many documents have OCR versus those that do not. They will share findings, including the unexpected issues that surfaced.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2025
AskQC office hours: Recording series information in bibliographic records
Join OCLC Metadata Quality staff to discuss WorldCat quality issues and cataloging questions.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025 - 16 May 2025
Florida Library Association (FLA) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the FLA Annual Conference
- Location: Orlando, FL
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Resource sharing in the Québec University Library Partnership
In this session, the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec will share their experience of collaboratively configuring group circulation in WMS, and Tipasa functionalities. They will also go over the partnership with OCLC to enhance resource sharing experience among their members.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Making sense of all your data: Working with statistics across systems
This session presents an overview of how the City University of New York (CUNY) reconciles data from all their resource sharing programs to get a more accurate and descriptive picture of their resource sharing activities.
- Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 May 2025 - 20 May 2025
Maine Library Association Conference
OCLC to participate at the Maine Library Association Conference
- Location: Sunday River, Newry, ME
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21 May 2025 - 23 May 2025
Asociación Mexicana de Bibliotecarios, A. C. (AMBAC) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the AMBAC Annual Conference
- Location: Bahías de Huatulco, Oaxaca
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22 May 2025
AskQC office hours: Recording series information in bibliographic records
Join OCLC Metadata Quality staff to discuss WorldCat quality issues and cataloging questions.
- Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 June 2025 - 04 June 2025
Association of Christian Libraries (ACL) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the ACL Annual Conference
- Location: Nampa, ID
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07 June 2025 - 10 June 2025
Special Library Association Conference
OCLC to participate at the Special Library Association Conference
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA