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Designed around people, driven by data

OCLC Wise is the first community engagement system for US public libraries. A proven solution used by more than 75% of public libraries in the Netherlands, Wise is being tailored to the specific needs of US public libraries and will be available later this year.

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Videos

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Dr. Carla D. Hayden on the need for constant change in libraries
The 14th Librarian of Congress discusses the impact of widespread cultural and technological changes on libraries with OCLC President and CEO Skip Prichard.

Connecting regions with a global infrastructure
Learn how JISC is delivering a UK national digital library that will support the UK higher-education community and connect to the global library network.

Better understand your collection
The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium Shared Print Operations Group used data to highlight their shared collection while enabling participants to reduce local holdings.

Global Council and you
As an OCLC member, your voice matters. Get engaged to help shape the future of the cooperative. Watch this video for an overview of OCLC's member-driven, librarian-led governance structure.

News

OCLC and Ithaka S+R publish report on aligning library strategies with university directions
- 18 October 2018
OCLC and Ithaka S+R have published a new report, University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions, which establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms an...
OCLC partners with Taylor & Francis to create and deliver high-quality catalog records to libraries
- 10 October 2018
OCLC is partnering with Taylor & Francis, one of the world's leading academic publishers, to create and deliver high-quality catalog records representing important scholarly works to libraries.
CONTENTdm Featured Collections: October 2018
- 08 October 2018

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Events

24 October 2018

KLA & MPLA Joint Conference

Join OCLC colleagues at the join conference between the Kansas Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association in Wichita, Kansas, USA.

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24 October 2018

Cataloging in the cloud with WMS - A technical services librarian shares her experience

Hear from Shannon Tennant, Coordinator of Library Collections and Associate Librarian, on how librarians at Elon University’s Belk Library are doing things differently with WMS

Time: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]

25 October 2018