Latest OCLC news

• Skip Prichard named OCLC President and CEO

  • 16 May 2013

  Skip Prichard, an experienced senior executive in the information services market, has been named the next OCLC President and CEO.
  

• OCLC and partners make your summer reading program more socialHow to keep ILL mailing labels printing correctly

  • 15 May 2013

  OCLC has recently collaborated with a number of WorldCat partners—including DOGObooks—to give librarians a free, easy way to enhance their planned summer reading programs with an online social component.

• WorldCat database reaches 2 billion holdings

  • 07 May 2013

  WorldCat, the most comprehensive online database of resources available through libraries around the world, has reached another major milestone with the addition of its 2 billionth holding.
  

• OCLC Canada Symposium at CLA 2013

  • 25 April 2013

  OCLC Canada Symposium at CLA
  "Linked Data and Innovation in Canadian Libraries"
  Wednesday, 29 May 2013 | 12h – 16h
  Winnipeg Convention Centre
  
  OCLC Canada will hold a symposium and luncheon during th

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• OCLC Control Number expansion

  • 05 April 2013

  The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach 1 billion sometime after 1 July 2013.  At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC Control Number to accommodate a variable-length number string.
  

• ILL Migration for Libraries in Canada

  • 22 March 2013

  The WorldCat Resource Sharing interlibrary loan service will be replaced by a new service, OCLC WorldShare^® Interlibrary Loan, in 2013.

• OCLC releases statement on withdrawal of lawsuit by Innovative Interfaces and SkyRiver Technology Solutions

  • 04 March 2013

  Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, has issued the following statement on the withdrawal today of a lawsuit filed in 2010 by Innovative Interfaces and SkyRiver Technology Solutions.
  

• OCLC and ProQuest collaborate to enhance library discovery

  • 28 February 2013

  ProQuest and OCLC are launching a far-reaching data exchange program that will enhance the library discovery experience for users of OCLC’s WorldCat Local service, ProQuest’s Summon service, the full-text of ProQuest Central and ebrary e-books. Th

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• OCLC introduces OCLC WorldShare

  • 16 February 2013

  OCLC, together with OCLC Global Council and members, is taking the cooperative’s ongoing strategy to help libraries operate and innovate at Webscale to a much broader level with the introduction of OCLC WorldShare, a new platform and a new bran .....

• OCLC Research and ALISE name recipients of 2013 Library and Information Science Research Grants

  • 06 February 2013

  OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded research grants to Lynne Bowker of the University of Ottawa, Kyung-Sun Kim of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Sei-Ching Joanna Sin of Nan

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