OCLC Webinars
OCLC Webinars are presented on a variety of subjects—from product demonstrations to implementation discussions—made available over the Web at no cost.
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Upcoming webinars
19 June 2013
Countdown to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan: Preparing your library for OCLC’s new ILL service
This event will be held at 9:00 a.m., Australia Eastern Standard Time (AEST).
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12 February 2013
Countdown to OCLC WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
Find out what you need to know about the new OCLC WorldShare™ Interlibrary Loan service that will replace WorldCat Resource Sharing and is scheduled for release March 2013. WorldShare™ Interlibrary Loan is one of the first services to use a new system for managing user accounts for OCLC services. Before you log on to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan for the first time, you must set up a new OCLC Services user account for interlibrary loan.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time [UTC -5]
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06 February 2013 - 06 February 2013
Virtual Resource Sharing User Group Meeting
This meeting featured an update on the new WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service, scheduled for release in March 2013. It also included information about recent and upcoming enhancements to other OCLC resource sharing services and tools, including ILLiad and Article Exchange.
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07 January 2013 - 07 January 2013
Improving WorldCat - How You Can Participate
During the webinar, Ian Fairclough, Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian, George Mason University and Cynthia M. Whitacre, Manager, WorldCat Quality & Partner Content, OCLC, speak about the improvements that can be made to WorldCat master records. Included in this presentation for cataloging staff at member libraries, is when and how to make corrections to WorldCat records and how to request that OCLC staff edit a WorldCat record.
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17 December 2012 - 17 December 2012
OCLC Credit & Incentive Program Discussion
During the webinar, OCLC staff and members of the Global Council Advisory Group on Incentives engage with librarians at member libraries on the topic of OCLC cataloging credits and incentives, to provide background on the current credits model, share findings and recommendations of the OCLC Global Council Cost Sharing Models Task Force, and gather input and feedback from member libraries.
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28 November 2012 - 28 November 2012
Using macros in Connexion for CJK materials webinar, Advanced session
Connexion macros can be very useful for expedited cataloging, both for making repetitive changes to records and for generating first-draft transliterations of non-Latin text. Part two of this session includes discussion about and demonstrations of creating and customizing macros those are somewhat complex and/or deal with non-Latin text, as well as a testimonial about how useful these types of macros have been. Presenters: Joel Hahn, Niles Public Library District, and Erica Chang, University of Hawaii.
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26 November 2012 - 26 November 2012
ILLiad demonstration
We’ll provide an overview of OCLC ILLiad and demonstrate how the service can save time and increase efficiency for your interlibrary loan operation.
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15 November 2012 - 15 November 2012
Get your library on Goodreads
Hear how you can gain visibility for your library, through the OCLC and Goodreads partnership. You'll learn more about Goodreads and how to reach the more than 11 million book-loving members and connect them to your library.
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23 October 2012 - 23 October 2012
Document delivery using OCLC Article Exchange
Tony Melvyn, OCLC Product Manager, WorldCat Resource Sharing and Stephanie Spires, Director of Training and Library Solutions at Atlas Systems, provide detailed information about how you can use Article Exchange to deliver documents in conjunction with the WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad services. Tony also shares plans for an upcoming pilot of a library-branded version of the site that will extend the visibility of your library's delivery services to your users.
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10 October 2012 - 10 October 2012
Introduction to EZproxy hosted service
EZproxy hosted service is available. Find out more about the service: see how it works from product manager Don Hamparian, learn what the steps are to implement and hear how your library would benefit from the hosted solution.
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30 September 2012 - 30 September 2012
Cataloging with WorldShare Management Services
This 30 minute recording is a live demonstration of how WorldShare Management Services support 21st century workflows for the cataloging and metadata management of your library's collections.
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20 September 2012
WorldShare Metadata collection management overview
David Whitehair, OCLC provides an overview of the new WorldShare Metadata collection management functionality along with details to get started using the new tool.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]
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05 September 2012 - 05 September 2012
Transforming Discovery and Resource Sharing with OCLC: FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing and More
This program provided updates on plans to expand and enhance the WorldCat Resource Sharing and FirstSearch services. Mindy Pozenel and Katie Birch also shared information about how you can prepare for your library's transition to the new services. [WebEx recording 1 Hour]
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28 August 2012 - 28 August 2012
Document delivery using OCLC Article Exchange
This program provided a review of recent Article Exchange enhancements and tips for effective use of the Article Exchange. It also included a preview of plans for an upcoming pilot of a library-branded version of the site that will extend the visibility of your library’s delivery services to your users.
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12 July 2012 - 12 July 2012
Virtual Resource Sharing User Group Meeting
An update from ALA Annual on plans for the new WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service that will replace WorldCat Resource Sharing in 2013 and an overview of recent and upcoming enhancements to OCLC resource sharing services.
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20 June 2012 - 20 June 2012
Learn more about QuestionPoint’s chat service, Qwidget
QuestionPoint Qwidget is an embeddable chat service included in a subscription to QuestionPoint, OCLC’s reference management service. QuestionPoint provides librarians with tools to interact with users in multiple ways, using both chat and email.
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30 May 2012 - 30 May 2012
EZproxy_Ezproxy Virtual Users Group Meeting on IPv6
Join Josh Thomas, OCLC Security Officer, to hear about IPv6, what it means for your library, your institution and your users' access to electronic content. Don Hamparian and Charlotte Sturtz, OCLC Product Management team for EZproxy, answer questions related to EZproxy implementations for IPv6, timing for future releases and discussion.
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24 May 2012 - 24 May 2012
Best Practices in Resource Sharing: Leveraging Link Resolvers to Speed Processing
This program features Kurt Munson of Galter Health Sciences Library at Northwestern University, who speaks about how to use add-ons for ILLiad and the WorldCat knowledge base to quickly deliver electronic articles to users. He shares his experience with evaluating processes and capitalizing on new tools to improve the efficiency and accuracy of his library's delivery of electronic articles.
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17 May 2012 - 17 May 2012
Best Practices in Virtual Reference: Finding Your Virtual Reference Users Online
Seeking Synchronicity found that one of the biggest obstacles to a successful virtual reference service was getting users to simply know the service existed. How do you find your users online? How do they find you? Look at what signs have been effective in letting users know about the service. What works best in both drawing user's attention and getting them to know what the service is about? With our constantly changing technical vocabulary, are you really saying what you want to say?
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03 May 2012 - 03 May 2012
Improving discovery and use of your institutional repositorysample
Learn how the University of Hawaii at Manoa is organizing their digital library and increasing its visibility by incorporating the newest features of OCLC's WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway into their workflow. Hear how this free tool can help you increase readership of your digital materials by exposing them through WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.
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01 May 2012 - 01 May 2012
Article Exchange for OCLC Resource Sharing and ILLiad services
This webinar provided an update on how Article Exchange works, and included information on upcoming enhancements planned for the site.
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24 April 2012 - 24 April 2012
Best Practices in Virtual Reference: Virtual Reference in Tough Times
In tough economic times, everything gets a turn on the chopping block. Make the case for virtual reference to your funding bodies and show them the impact you have online. Hear what has an impact on funders and learn what features are most valuable to your library.
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12 April 2012 - 12 April 2012
Connexion enhancements
Learn about authority controlling improvements which will apply to Windows-based Connexion client and Web-based Connexion browser users, and the enhancements - GLIMIR, Classify, RDA workforms and macro changes included in the recent release of Connexion client version 2.40.
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11 April 2012 - 11 April 2012
Transform your users' discovery experience with WorldCat Local
Hear from Karen Schneider of Holy Names University as she discusses how WorldCat Local transformed her users' discovery experience. Karen shares what happened when WorldCat Local helped the Cushing Library increase traditional print circulation by 30 percent, increase interlibrary loan requests and more than double e-resource usage.
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10 April 2012 - 10 April 2012
OCLC delivery services using the WorldCat Knowledge Base for ILLiad userssample
This program provides an overview of how the WorldCat knowledge base will help you save time and decrease turnaround times for loans of articles and e-books through the ILLiad service. The program also includes information about plans to add a deflection option based on license terms stored in the knowledge base.
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10 April 2012 - 10 April 2012
OCLC delivery services using the WorldCat Knowledge Base for WorldCat Resource Sharing users
This program provides an overview of how the WorldCat knowledge base will help you save time and decrease turnaround times for loans of articles and e-books through the WorldCat Resource Sharing service. The program also includes information about plans to add a deflection option based on license terms stored in the knowledge base.
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