University of Chichester signs on to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services to enhance student and staff library experience
West Sussex university partners with OCLC to transform library services and expand access to global resources
SHEFFIELD, UK, 16 October 2025—OCLC announced today that the University of Chichester has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its library services platform. The comprehensive cloud-based platform will help the university streamline library operations and provide enhanced access to global research resources for students and faculty.
With origins that date back as far as 1839, the University of Chichester was ranked in the top 30 UK universities in the Guardian University Guide 2025. The university serves more than 6,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, offering programs across a range of disciplines including education, humanities, social sciences, sport, and creative arts.
"We are very excited to be working with OCLC. WMS will integrate well with our other systems and suppliers, such as our reading list software," said Karen Lloyd, University Librarian at the University of Chichester. "The new system will provide access to further resources and research from across the world, enhancing both the student and staff experience. We particularly like the way in which we can configure the user interface for the library catalog to suit our students' needs. The new system will also provide the capability for more efficient ways of working for both students and staff, providing greater student and staff satisfaction."
WMS provides libraries with a comprehensive, cloud-based library services platform that includes acquisitions, circulation, cataloging, and discovery capabilities. The platform is designed to help libraries reduce costs, increase efficiency, and provide better service to their users.
"We're very pleased to welcome the University of Chichester to the WMS community," said Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, OCLC EMEA and APAC. "The university's commitment to enhancing the student and staff experience aligns with our mission to help libraries advance learning, teaching, and research. We look forward to working with the university to support these goals."
More about WorldShare Management Services is on the website.
About OCLC
OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research and innovation. Through OCLC, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through OCLC’s WorldShare, a complete set of library management applications and services built on an open, cloud-based platform. It is through collaboration and sharing of the world’s collected knowledge that libraries can help people find answers they need to solve problems. Together as OCLC, member libraries, staff and partners make breakthroughs possible.
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