Get together with OCLC online or in person.
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.
Upcoming Events
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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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01 May 2025
Assessing the library’s role in e-resource access workflows today and in the future
A 30-minute webinar on the misperceptions about why moving e-resource access workflows away from IP authentication and toward federated access technologies like SAML is a good decision
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 May 2025
AI and public libraries: Panel and discussion
Learn how public libraries are using AI, ways to support community members with this new technology, and the most prevalent issues and concerns—and how to navigate them.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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
Live Webcast: Unlocking the Power of Linked Data
Join Research Information, OCLC, and West Virginia University for an in-depth discussion on how linked data is reshaping library metadata strategy, research access and institutional impact.
- Time: 14:00 – 15:00 UTC +1
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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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20 May 2025
Putting the pieces together: How resource sharing in WMS simplifies borrowing and lending through the world’s largest network
A 30-minute webinar on how OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—an advanced library services platform—seamlessly integrates resource sharing for both electronic and print resources
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 May 2025
Enhancing your digital collection: Additional CloudLibrary offerings your patrons will love
Join us for a 30-minute webinar where we unveil how CloudLibrary's comics, magazines/newspapers and streaming video services can help your library.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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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
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08 June 2025 - 12 June 2025
ACURIL Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the ACURIL Annual Conference
- Location: Curaçao
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18 June 2025 - 20 June 2025
State University of New York Library Association (SUNYLA) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the SUNYLA Annual Conference
- Location: Delhi, NY