News & Events
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OCLC and Ovid partner to automate e-book and e-journal workflows
OCLC and Ovid a leading provider of scientific, medical and healthcare information have partnered to automate e-resource management workflows, eliminating the need for manual intervention by library staff.
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OCLC and Rittenhouse offer seamless management of ebooks in the R2 Library
OCLC and Rittenhouse Book Distributors, Inc., a leading provider of health science ebooks, have partnered to automate the maintenance of your R2 Library
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OCLC and ProQuest partner to automate ebook management workflows
OCLC is pleased to announce availability of 89 new WorldCat knowledge base collections from ProQuest Ebook Central.
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New Community Center offers a place online for library staff to share ideas about OCLC services, best practices
The new OCLC Community Center offers a place for library staff to connect online, share best practices, stay up to date on new product releases and contribute ideas to improve OCLC services.
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29 January 2016
EBSCO eBook Collections: Streamline Your MARC Record Output and WorldCat Holdings Maintenance
OCLC is pleased to announce that the way you manage your EBSCO collections will be streamlined by the migration of MARC record delivery and the WorldCat holdings maintenance for EBSCO titles into WorldShare Collection Manager. Since your library currently receives MARC records from OCLC for EBSCO titles, you will receive access to Collection Manager to manage your EBSCO records.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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27 January 2016
WorldCat Cataloging Partners: Prepare for Your Transition
In this webinar, participants learned how OCLC is helping streamline cataloging workflows by integrating functionality from a number of different cataloging services into WorldShare Collection Manager.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 May 2015
Institution Record questions, answers and next steps
We hosted this webinar to answer questions and provide guidance to those who elect to migrate their Institution Records to Local Bibliographic Data.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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29 June 2014 - 29 June 2014
WorldShare Metadata Users Group Meeting at ALA Annual
Attendees received an overview of WorldShare Metadata and new functionality in the WorldCat knowledge base, and heard current users discuss their experiences with WorldShare Metadata.
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Venue: LVH - Las Vegas Hotel, Ballroom F
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09 January 2014
Improve your U.S. government publications workflow with OCLC WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager
During this session, Amy Elliott, Product Analyst at OCLC, discussed how to use WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager to improve your U.S. government publications workflow.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 November 2013
Streamlining your DDA workflow with WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager
During the session, Sara Finch, Senior Information Developer at OCLC, discussed several topics relating to DDA.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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11 September 2013
Improving the quality of your MARC records: a Collection Manager webinar
During the session, OCLC’s Julie Whitley and Cynthia Whitacre discussed the ways you can use WorldShare® Metadata Collection Manager to continuously improve the quality of the MARC records in your local database.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 July 2013
WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager webinar: streamline metadata workflows
During the session, David Whitehair discussed how functionality from WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager automatically delivers WorldCat MARC records and maintains WorldCat holdings—one time and/or ongoing—for all or subsets of your collection, including licensed, digital and physical materials, saving time and improving returns on collection investments.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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01 July 2013 - 01 July 2013
OCLC's Next-Generation Metadata Management
OCLC WorldShare Metadata is now available to OCLC cataloging subscribers. Hear from Anne C. Elguindi, VIVA Associate Director, and David Whitehair, OCLC Senior Product Manager, about Collection Manager, which automatically updates e-resource collection metadata, keeping URLs current in your discovery interface. Coming soon: efficient tools to describe items uniquely held by your library, and Web services to add and enrich WorldCat records and maintain WorldCat holdings.
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