Introducing sharing at Webscale: OCLC WorldShare

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Connecting the world's libraries to operate and innovate at Webscale

OCLC WorldShare provides a Web-based platform for collective innovation with shared services, integrated applications and a streamlined approach to managing library workflows. Together with WorldCat, WorldShare helps the world's libraries connect in new ways to operate, innovate and collaborate at Webscale.

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Congratulations, Americas Regional Council Executive Committee candidates!

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Your library at Webscale: How radical collaboration is redefining library management services

Join Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University Libraries; Gregg A. Silvis, University of Delaware Libraries; and Andrew K. Pace, OCLC, at this free webcast on Thursday, February 21, as they share perspectives on the current and future state of library management services. This event is sponsored by Library Journal and OCLC. Register here.

Computers in Libraries 2012, March 21 - 23, Washington, D.C.

See the registration form for North America's largest technology conference and exhibition for librarians and information managers.

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OCLC Research

OCLC Research works with the community to collaboratively identify problems and opportunities, prototype and test solutions, and share findings through publications, presentations and professional interactions.

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Products and Services

Future delivery service

Mid-2012 begins a year-long migration period for WorldCat Resource Sharing users to the new delivery service featuring more interlibrary loan functions and simplified workflows, available via the WorldShare Management Services interface.

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Spring Hill College: Making the move to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services

Gentry Holbert, Associate Professor Librarian and Director of Library & Information Resource Services at the Marnie and John Burke Memorial Library at Spring Hill College, shares her library's decision to adopt OCLC WorldShare Management Services.

CONTENTdm Featured Collections: February 2012

Organizations worldwide are using CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software to create thousands of outstanding digital collections and to provide easy access to their unique holdings.

OCLC adds IEEE and full-text search to WorldCat Local

Full-text searching is now available in WorldCat Local, OCLC's discovery-to-delivery service that offers users integrated access to more than 922 million items worldwide. The new search functionality follows the addition of full-text content from IEEE to the WorldCat Local central index.

Austin Peay State University library creates digital collection of student newspapers

What was the first day of basketball practice like for the Lady Govs way back in the fall of 1930? According to the Nov. 26 edition of The All State, the student-run newspaper of Austin Peay Normal School, from that year, “Coach Jackson has started the old basketball grind with only a few of the 1929 squad back as candidates for their old positions on the team.”

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