Welcome from your Americas Regional Council!

It is an honor and privilege to serve as this year’s Chair of the Americas Regional Council (ARC). OCLC member institutions in the Americas represent a mixture of library types, sizes, cultures, and languages all of whom are committed to serving our communities and embracing our differences. As a Regional Council, we are passionate about our diversity and dedicated to improving the lives of our communities through technology, innovation, and our skills as library professionals.

As your elected ARC delegates, we are here to listen and reflect the different needs of ARC libraries and to work with OCLC on providing solutions that benefit libraries throughout the globe. Communicating our unique perspectives and experiences helps make OCLC an even more valuable organization for libraries. As a Council we learn from one another and inspire positive action in our communities.

I invite you to join us on this learning journey. Together, OCLC members and the OCLC Global Council can make positive progress towards a more just and equitable world.

Welcome from your EMEA Regional Council

The EMEA region represents more than 70 countries in which libraries, museums and archives all face many different challenges. Understanding and communicating this diversity is key to identifying regional priorities regarding OCLC’s services and development of the global cooperative. This is a strategic strength that builds the OCLC cooperative and provides our members with the products and services needed to enhance their institution’s ability to serve their users.

The Executive Committee of the EMEA Regional Council aims to represent all OCLC members and this calls for a well-developed network and excellent communication among the membership. We are working to develop member engagement and we welcome your input, questions, comments, and concerns. We represent members’ interests and provide informed opinions to OCLC about the direction of the library community. This motivates us to continue our important work on behalf of libraries. Therefore, we strongly invite you to help us!

The diversity of OCLC membership, across regions, countries and library types is the strength of the cooperative. Together, we are a global community committed to making a difference for the future of libraries.

Welcome from your APRC Regional Council

I am very pleased to be able to serve as the APRC Regional Council Chair for this year, and particularly excited about the many contributions from our region that serves to expand the depth and breadth of WorldCat and contributes to critical global knowledge.

We have worked hard to preserve and protect our regions' histories, cultures, and art, and are pleased to be able to use the valuable resources from OCLC that makes serving our communities possible. We help OCLC understand the unique needs of APRC institutions and work with our global colleagues to examine the emerging issues faced by modern global libraries.

By working locally, regionally, and globally we benefit from and contribute to the innovation and research OCLC provides. We would like to invite libraries from the Asia Pacific region to continue to play an active role in the cooperative. We welcome your input, questions, comments, and concerns and will proudly represent the interests of member institutions as a valuable part of the OCLC cooperative.