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Custom Holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing Online

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Prerequisites

WorldCat Resource Sharing Basics or equivalent experience.

Course description

Custom Holdings allows OCLC’s WorldCat Resource Sharing (WCRS) system to quickly and automatedly identify potential lenders and route requests based on your library’s preferred lenders.  Come and learn how to really put WCRS to work while significantly reducing the time you spend processing borrowing requests.

What you will learn

How to set up, maintain, and use custom holdings in WorldCat Resource Sharing.

Topics covered include

  • How to set up Custom Holdings in WCRS. 
  • How to use the Policies Directory (PD) and other tools to identify potential lenders and transfer their symbols into Custom Holdings.

     

 

Course details

Duration: 2 Hours

Fee:

$30 Western Members

$75 Non-members

Instructor: