News & Events
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10 libraries in Alberta to join OCLC's WorldShare Management Services community
Ten libraries from the NEOS Library Consortium in Alberta, Canada, are moving to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries.
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After 10 successful years, LIBROS library consortium again selects OCLC's WMS as its library services platform
Following a competitive proposal process and in-depth review, LIBROS, New Mexico's academic library consortium, has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its library services platform.
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Library joins OCLC's WorldShare Management Services community
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Library (Fermilab) has selected and implemented OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its library services platform.
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Heidelberg University Library selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform
OCLC announced today that internationally esteemed Heidelberg University Library has selected WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its cloud-based library services platform.
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31 new libraries sign on to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services platform
In the last six months, 31 new libraries have signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS), the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries.
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CEU selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services to manage 20 libraries that serve over 96,000 users in Spain
Fundacion Universitaria San Pablo CEU has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its fully integrated library services platform to handle all essential functions of its diverse institutions' libraries in Spain.
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, a research institution in Germany, is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries.
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18 more libraries sign on to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services platform to close 2023
In the closing months of 2023, 18 new libraries signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services.
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04 February 2025
Built with libraries, for libraries: How WMS delivers an efficient, innovative library services platform
A 30 minute overview of WMS—a fully integrated library services platform—saves you time and resources with efficient management of your library’s resources in one integrated solution
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 October 2025 - 30 October 2025
OCLC Contactdag 2025
Op de OCLC Contactdag komen directies en medewerkers van bibliotheken in Nederland en Vlaanderen bijeen.
- Location: Amersfoort
- Venue: Eenhoorn Meeting Center Amersfoort
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06 November 2024
Partnering for continued success with WMS: Dedicated support and community resources
A 30-minute webinar to learn about the many support options available when you select WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as your library services platform
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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16 October 2024
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: Circulation and Digby
A 30-minute deeper look at what makes the circulation module in WMS and the Digby® mobile inventory app stand apart from other library management systems
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 October 2024
Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system: A panel discussion with librarians
A one-hour virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently implemented a new, cloud-based library system—OCLC's WorldShare Management Services
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 August 2024
Built with libraries, for libraries: How WMS delivers an efficient, innovative library services platform
A 30-minute webinar of how OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—a fully integrated library services platform—saves you time and resources with efficient management of your library’s resources in one integrated solution
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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31 July 2024
Cool Trends & Hot Topics: Using metadata to enhance efficiency and effectiveness for library services
A 30-minute webinar about how WorldShare Management Services (WMS)–OCLC’s cloud-based library services platform–leverages the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of library services for your library staff and your library users
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 May 2024
Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
A one-hour virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently implemented a new, cloud-based library system with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2024
Putting the pieces together with WMS and Choreo Insights: Aligning library collections with institutional goals and priorities
A 30-minute webinar to uncover how WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—an advanced library services platform—and Choreo Insights—an extensive library analytics solution—align library collections to academic curriculum using WorldCat holdings data
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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26 March 2024
Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
A one-hour virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently implemented a new, cloud-based library system with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 December 2023
How you can better connect your users to authoritative open content
A one-hour webinar about how you can improve the discoverability of high-quality, academic open content for the communities you serve
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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28 November 2023
Cool Trends & Hot Topics: How to maximize your library’s online presence and impact
A 30-minute webinar about the web visibility benefit included in OCLC WorldShare Management Services (WMS) that connects people to libraries from search engines and popular nonlibrary websites
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 October 2023 - 12 October 2023
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: Managing resource sharing with WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
A 30-minute webinar on how to simplify your library's interlibrary loan (ILL) management with WorldShare ILL, a part of OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS)
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21 September 2023
Putting the pieces together with WMS and EZproxy: Analyzing library data to support student success
A 30-minute webinar to discover how our advanced library services platform, WorldShare® Management Services (WMS), and our trusted e-resource access and authentication solution, EZproxy®, uniquely integrate to uncover which library resources have the greatest influence
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 August 2023
Meet me on the web: Reach information seekers where they search
New and expanded initiatives in OCLC’s unique web visibility program help more people connect with libraries from popular web locations in searchers’ typical information journeys. This program provides details about key components of OCLC’s web visibility program — direct links from Google Search results to library catalogs and WorldCat.org and its associated mobile app, WorldCat Find.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 June 2023
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: Managing e-resources with License Manager
A 30-minute webinar to learn how to simplify your library's electronic resource management with License Manager, part of OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS)
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 February 2023
Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
A one-hour virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently been through the process of exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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15 November 2022
Work on improving your campus working relationships
A 60-minute review of the research report, Social Interoperability in Research Support: Cross-Campus Partnerships and the University Research Enterprise, within the context of library operations, and introduction of Talis Aspire and how its integration of library management, learning management, list management, and discovery can help build bridges
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 November 2022
Conozca la plataforma de servicios bibliotecarios de OCLC para bibliotecas especializadas
Participe en esta sesión en línea para conocer los servicios de administración de OCLC para bibliotecas especializadas.
- Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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02 March 2022
Putting the pieces together: How to boost your existing OCLC services already on the WorldShare platform
A 30-minute webinar that explains how by adding a few additional OCLC services to your cataloging and interlibrary loan subscriptions, your library can expand your engagement with the cooperative and upgrade to a complete cloud-based library management solution–WorldShare Management Services (WMS)
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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02 December 2021
A blueprint for collection building success
A 60-minute Transformative Leaders webinar about how to apply the OCLC Research Library Partnership's "Total Cost of Stewardship" framework and tools across multiple OCLC services
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 June 2021
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: WorldCat Discovery
A 30-minute webinar about how the unique functionality in the WorldCat Discovery application of WMS helps libraries
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 June 2021
Digging deeper into what makes WMS unique: Reports
A 30-minute webinar about how the unique functionality in the reports application of WMS helps libraries
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 June 2021
The New Model Library presented by OCLC Research and the WMS Community Leadership team
The OCLC Research team and the WMS Community Leadership team will discuss emerging library models.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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29 April 2021
Exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system
Join this virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently been through the process of exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 January 2021
Making e-resources easier to find, share, manage, and use: A demo of how License Manager integrates with existing OCLC services
A 30-minute demonstration of License Manager.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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08 October 2020
OCLC Contactdag 2020: WorldShare Management Services in ontwikkeling
Deelsessie OCLC Contactdag voor wetenschappelijke bibliotheken.
- Time: 13:30 – 14:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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19 May 2020
Putting the pieces together: How integrated services in WMS make it easy for users to find, request, and access resources
A 30-minute webinar to learn how cataloging and resource sharing services integrate in WMS.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2020
Gestión de recursos electrónicos con WMS
Únase a nosotros para obtener una descripción general de unos 30 minutos sobre como facilitar el acceso a los recursos electrónicos de su biblioteca a todos sus usuarios durante estas circunstancias especiales.
- Time: 11:00 – 11:30 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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27 February 2020
Defining Success with WMS: Hendrix College
A 30-minute webinar featuring Britt Anne Murphy, Director of the Bailey Library at Hendrix College. Britt Anne will share why the Bailey Library selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) and how they plan to facilitate success for both users and staff.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 February 2020
Servicios de Administración WorldShare (WMS): Posibilite una mejor gestión y mayor éxito en el servicio de su biblioteca
Únase a nosotros para obtener una descripción general de unos 30 minutos sobre WMS y obtener una primera aproximación de cómo puede usarlos para apoyar los objetivos estratégicos de su biblioteca.
- Time: 11:00 – 11:30 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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24 October 2018
Cataloging in the cloud with WMS - A technical services librarian shares her experience
Hear from Shannon Tennant, Coordinator of Library Collections and Associate Librarian, on how librarians at Elon University’s Belk Library are doing things differently with WMS
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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