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New agreement will provide libraries and users broader access to Gale collections through the OCLC WorldShare Platform

OCLC Shared Print Management Program is designed to help libraries collaborate to more efficiently manage and share these collections

OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more e-book metadata to WorldCat

Sixteen more libraries have announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services

Fifteen more libraries have announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services, bringing the total number of libraries worldwide committed to using WorldShare Management Services to 210

OCLC WorldShare Management Services was recognized as “Outstanding Service of the Year” during the TechColumbus Innovation Awards

University of Alberta adds 2 billionth holding to world’s most comprehensive online library catalog

New agreement will provide libraries and users broader access to Gale collections through the OCLC WorldShare Platform

OCLC Shared Print Management Program is designed to help libraries collaborate to more efficiently manage and share these collections

OCLC has signed new agreements with leading publishers around the world to add more e-book metadata to WorldCat

Sixteen more libraries have announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services

Blount becomes the fifth President and CEO of OCLC, the worldwide library cooperative founded 45 years ago

Fifteen more libraries have announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services, bringing the total number of libraries worldwide committed to using WorldShare Management Services to 210

Relais International has signed an agreement with OCLC that will allow mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services through the OCLC WorldShare Platform

OCLC WorldShare Management Services was recognized as “Outstanding Service of the Year” during the TechColumbus Innovation Awards

The University of Delaware Library has selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as its Web-based cooperative library management system for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, discovery, license management and workflow improvements

OCLC is launching the OCLC WorldShare Platform, which will enable library developers, partners and other organizations to create, configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users

Hope’s Darling Library is one of only a select number of libraries worldwide to use an innovative and integrative cloud or web based system to manage its circulation, the lending and receiving of materials, and its research databases.

Cindy Hilsheimer, principal and founder of an executive search firm based in Columbus, Ohio, has been elected to serve on the OCLC Board of Trustees.

OCLC continues to negotiate access to critical library content on behalf of the cooperative to ensure access to libraries’ most popular resources

OCLC’s Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, has received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mohave Community College, in northwest Arizona, recently signed on and Ogeechee Technical College, in Statesboro, Georgia, is now “live” with OCLC Web-scale Management Services

OCLC today named five librarians chosen to participate in the Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program for 2012

The University of New Brunswick Libraries is the first Canadian library to sign up for OCLC Web-scale Management Services

A production version of mobile-optimized WorldCat Local is now available to libraries

Since OCLC announced it was making its cloud-based library management services available to early adopters just 10 months ago, 32 libraries have committed to using OCLC Web-scale Management Services.

WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery service that offers users integrated access to more than 800 million items in libraries around the world, has added more databases and collections from leading publishers.

OCLC has been named among the Best Employers in Ohio for the third consecutive year.

OCLC and Ingram Content Group Inc. will soon offer a new service option that will provide library users short-term access to e-books not in their collection through WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad.

University of Oxford and OCLC Research are collaborating in a six-month JISC-funded study to investigate the theory of digital residents and visitors

An expanding collection of authoritative content from leading academic publishers is now accessible through WorldCat Local, the OCLC discovery service that offers users integrated access to electronic, digital and physical library materials.

CONTENTdm 6, the latest version of OCLC’s popular CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management software, offers a complete redesign for the end-user experience along with new website configuration tools.

Geek the Library, a community awareness campaign designed to highlight the value of public libraries and inform the public about critical library funding issues, positively changed community perceptions about libraries in a pilot.

OCLC and ImagineEasy Solutions are collaborating to create a customizable library version of the EasyBib.com service, the most popular online citation site on the Web. EasyBib Library Edition will be rolled out in a beta testing phase in libraries.

OCLC and the HathiTrust have developed a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library.

SMS Text Messaging Donations to Help Non-Profit Libraries Raise Funds

East View Information Services is now an active OCLC WorldCat Selection Partner.

As part of the agreement, OCLC will now be able to provide its users with data indicating that a book is either available as digitized content or that it can be made available for digitization.