Get together with OCLC online or in person.
We offer a variety of events both physical and virtual for different engagement and comfort levels. You can decide what’s best for you based on what you need to know. Use this list to keep informed of upcoming meetings, conferences, events, and webinars that OCLC plans to host or attend.
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30 April 2025
WMS-Erwerbung: Alles vereint unter einer Oberfläche. (German)
Kostenloses OCLC Produkt Web-Seminar 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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01 May 2025
Assessing the library’s role in e-resource access workflows today and in the future
A 30-minute webinar on the misperceptions about why moving e-resource access workflows away from IP authentication and toward federated access technologies like SAML is a good decision
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 May 2025
AI and public libraries: Panel and discussion
Learn how public libraries are using AI, ways to support community members with this new technology, and the most prevalent issues and concerns—and how to navigate them.
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 May 2025
Basic-Kurs: Keine Angst vor KI – Mit KI zur modernen Bibliothek (German)
OCLC KI-Webinar 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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07 May 2025 - 09 May 2025
British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) Conference
OCLC to participate at the BCLA Conference
- Location: Territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, in Nanaimo
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07 May 2025
Live Webcast: Unlocking the Power of Linked Data
Join Research Information, OCLC, and West Virginia University for an in-depth discussion on how linked data is reshaping library metadata strategy, research access and institutional impact.
- Time: 14:00 – 15:00 UTC +1
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | The side effects of ILL: How ILL requests sparked collaboration and impacted holdings
University Libraries staff from Information Systems, Cataloging and Metadata, Electronic Resources, and Interlibrary Loan at the University of Memphis Libraries will share how interlibrary lending has initiated short and long-term projects that improve the experiences of our libraries users.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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07 May 2025
RSC25 | OCR they? A data project to estimate how many ILL borrowing documents have optical character recognition
This session will present a project where the University of Minnesota Libraries evaluated PDF files delivered to patrons to get a better sense of how many documents have OCR versus those that do not. They will share findings, including the unexpected issues that surfaced.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 May 2025
Works in Progress Webinar: Increasing the accessibility of library materials—Roles for ILL
Join this webinar to learn about opportunities for resource sharing practitioners to use their expertise and systems to help make library materials available in accessible formats.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2025
AskQC office hours: Recording series information in bibliographic records
Join OCLC Metadata Quality staff to discuss WorldCat quality issues and cataloging questions.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025 - 16 May 2025
Florida Library Association (FLA) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the FLA Annual Conference
- Location: Orlando, FL
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14 May 2025
Basic-Kurs: Keine Angst vor KI – Mit KI zur modernen Bibliothek (German)
OCLC KI-Webinar 2025
- Time: 14:00 – 16:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Resource sharing in the Québec University Library Partnership
In this session, the Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec will share their experience of collaboratively configuring group circulation in WMS, and Tipasa functionalities. They will also go over the partnership with OCLC to enhance resource sharing experience among their members.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025
RSC25 | Making sense of all your data: Working with statistics across systems
This session presents an overview of how the City University of New York (CUNY) reconciles data from all their resource sharing programs to get a more accurate and descriptive picture of their resource sharing activities.
- Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 May 2025
Transformative Leaders: Using linked data to enhance discovery experiences
Join us for this 30-minute webinar that continues the conversation about linked data and what it can do for your library. We'll discuss how linked data will help libraries connect and scale knowledge, fuel discovery, and contribute to the global information ecosystem.
- Time: 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 May 2025 - 20 May 2025
Maine Library Association Conference
OCLC to participate at the Maine Library Association Conference
- Location: Sunday River, Newry, ME
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20 May 2025
Wise werkt webinar: Maak kennis met het vernieuwde juniorWise
Kom naar dit webinar en leer het vernieuwde juniorWise kennen.
- Time: 11:00 – 23:45 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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20 May 2025
Putting the pieces together: How resource sharing in WMS simplifies borrowing and lending through the world’s largest network
A 30-minute webinar on how OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS)—an advanced library services platform—seamlessly integrates resource sharing for both electronic and print resources
- Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 May 2025 - 23 May 2025
Asociación Mexicana de Bibliotecarios, A. C. (AMBAC) Annual Conference
OCLC to participate at the AMBAC Annual Conference
- Location: Bahías de Huatulco, Oaxaca
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22 May 2025
WorldCat, WorldCat Registry und die OCLC Service Configuration (German)
Kostenloses OCLC Produkt Web-Seminar 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]