24 April 2018

EZproxy Q&A Webinar

Join OCLC EZproxy experts to ask questions about the service, set-up and hosting options.

22 February 2018

Managing your e-resources and licenses: A demonstration in WorldShare Management Services

A 45-minute demonstration in WorldShare Management Services focusing on management of your e-resources and licenses.

07 November 2017

Managing your e-resources and licenses: A demonstration in WorldShare Management Services

A 45-minute demonstration in WorldShare Management Services focusing on management of your e-resources and licenses.

19 October 2017

EZproxy Q&A Webinar

Join OCLC EZproxy experts to ask questions about the service, set-up and hosting options.

17 October 2017

Managing and acquiring your physical materials: A demonstration in WorldShare Management Services

A 45-minute demonstration in WorldShare Management Services focusing on acquisitions and management of your physical materials.

14 August 2017

EZproxy Q&A Webinar

Join OCLC EZproxy experts to ask questions about the service, set-up and hosting options.

29 June 2017

User-driven search enhancements in WorldCat Discovery

Participants heard an overview of WorldCat Discovery search algorithms and how to choose the approach that will best support their search tasks.

14 June 2017

Moving from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery: Recommended Configuration Steps

Participants who attended this webinar learned about recommended configuration settings for an easy transition from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery.

18 May 2017

Moving from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery: Recommended Configuration Steps

This program provided guidance on recommended configuration steps and other useful advice for an easy transition from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery.

26 April 2017

Moving Course Reserves Data to WorldCat Discovery

Participants were given the information they will need for a successful transfer of course reserves data from WorldCat Local to WorldCat Discovery.

15 December 2016

WorldCat Discovery Relevance: Impact of configuration settings on search results

Since August, many libraries have benefited from increased relevance of WorldCat Discovery search results. At this webinar, members of the WorldCat Discovery team will review relevance enhancements and discuss the impact of configuration settings on search results.

27 October 2016

A behind-the-scenes look at WorldCat Discovery relevance

Thank you for registering for the October 27th A behind-the-scenes look at WorldCat Discovery relevance webinar. Participants who attended this webinar heard WorldCat Discovery team members Cathy King and Jay Holloway shared background on how the new WorldCat Discovery search algorithm was developed, along with information about plans for future enhancements to search relevance in WorldCat Discovery.

11 August 2016

Ask the Experts - Extending Your Library’s WorldCat Discovery Experience to Remote Users

A panel of experts from OCLC and the WorldCat Discovery community shared tips for managing WorldCat Discovery access to all authorized users regardless of their locations. OCLC implementation managers spoke about WorldCat Discovery and EZproxy configuration. Members Eleta Grimbeek (Sabinet) and Michael Davidson (Plymouth State University) shared practical advice based on their experiences.

12 July 2016

Ask the Experts - Helping Users Discover Print AND Electronic Resources Using the WorldCat Knowledge Base

Participants heard first hand from librarians who shared how WorldCat Discovery and the WorldCat Knowledge Base are delivering greater visibility and discoverability to electronic and print holdings at their libraries.

09 June 2016

Ask the Experts - Innovation in Search Box Customization for WorldCat Discovery

On June 9th, OCLC hosted our first “Ask the Experts” panel discussion featuring examples of notable WorldCat Discovery search box Implementations. Participants joined OCLC and a panel of experts from the WorldCat Discovery User Community as we took a tour of library sites to see exactly what a bit of ingenuity could accomplish! The stars of this session were library peers who guided us on a tour of their technical handiwork and offered lessons learned for their successful search box implementation.

08 June 2016

Next Steps for WorldCat Discovery and FirstSearch

OCLC plans to develop a new version of FirstSearch with the full-featured searching of WorldCat required by many researchers and library staff.

16 May 2016

Introduction to EZproxy Hosted Service

In this session, Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager at OCLC, discussed how libraries benefit from the EZproxy hosted solution, showed how it works, and reviewed the steps to implement.

26 January 2016

WorldCat Discovery Best Practices: Implementation and use at Southwestern Assemblies of God University

In this webinar registrants heard how Nelson Memorial Library at the Southwestern Assemblies of God University uses WorldCat Discovery to provide single-search access to their collections and the collections of other libraries worldwide.

20 January 2016

WorldCat Discovery Virtual User Group Meeting

The meeting included updates on recent and planned enhancements to WorldCat Discovery and the OCLC Community Center.

06 October 2015

EZproxy 6.1 Release Update – September 2015

During this webinar, Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager, walked through the changes made in the EZproxy 6.1 release and provided details about enhancements planned for the next release.

23 September 2015

WorldCat Discovery Best Practices

This program provided information from two health sciences libraries about how they implemented WorldCat Discovery as a part of their institutions’ support for predominantly electronic collections and adoption of OCLC’s WorldShare Management System.

15 July 2015

Redefining workflows: Shifting from Cataloging to Curation
WMS success story: Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Watch this 30-minute webinar with guest presenter Theresa Embrey, Chief Librarian at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Theresa will share her library’s experience with WorldShare Management Services (WMS). During this session, you will:

• Hear why the Pritzker Military Museum & Library chose to implement WMS
• Learn the ways WMS is streamlining work to save staff time
• Explore how WMS has enabled this library to spend less time on routine cataloging tasks so staff can focus on other priorities.

26 June 2015 - 29 June 2015

ALA Annual 2015

Presentations and other supporting materials from ALA Annual

04 June 2015

Increasing visibility and improving user experience
A WMS success story: The Field Museum

Christine Giannoni, Museum Librarian at The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Christine shares her library's experience with WorldShare Management Services.

04 June 2015

EZproxy Release Update – May 2015 Release

At this session, Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager at OCLC, walked through the changes made in the EZproxy V6.0.8 release and gave details about enhancements planned for the next release.

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.

05 May 2015

Creating efficiencies in a community college library - A WMS success story: Saddleback College

View this 30-minute webinar with guest presenters from Saddleback College. Jenny Langrell, Library Department Chair and Systems Librarian, and Lydia Welhan, Technical Services Librarian, will share their library’s experience with WorldShare Management Services (WMS). During this session, you will:

• Hear why Saddleback College chose to implement WMS
• Learn the ways WMS is creating efficiencies for staff, faculty and students
• Explore how WMS has enabled this library to spend less time managing systems so staff can focus on priorities.

07 April 2015

Introduction to EZproxy hosted service webinar

At this session, Don Hamparian, Senior Product Manager at OCLC, presented about the EZproxy hosted service.

10 March 2015

Learn from the Past, Prepare for the Future

Join this first event in the Transformative Leaders webinar series for current and future library leaders. This webinar will explore the changing landscape of libraries and the role of leadership in managing effective change.

25 February 2015

Libraries Realize Real Results

Libraries with WorldShare Management Services (WMS) have shared the ways it helped them save staff time and money, and incorporate new functionality. This, in turn, provided the libraries with opportunities to undertake new projects ... to realize real results. Join us to hear Lea Briggs, Project Management Librarian at LIBROS/University of New Mexico, share her library’s experience as well as the advantages of taking an academic library consortium to the cloud. OCLC’s Andrew Pace will provide an overview and update.

30 January 2015 - 03 February 2015

ALA Midwinter 2015

Meet with your OCLC cooperative colleagues at the OCLC booth. Attend our various conference events and presentations.

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.

28 June 2014

From FirstSearch to WorldCat Discovery: Cooperative Discovery that Puts You Where Your Users Are

Come see the new service, hear how libraries have made the transition and learn how easy it is to get started.

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.

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.

16 October 2013

RDA Implementation Experiences: An OCLC webinar

During the session, Erin Stalberg, Director of Discovery and Access Services at Mount Holyoke College and Margaret Maurer, Head, Metadata and Cataloging at Kent State University talked about their experiences with implementing RDA.

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.

28 August 2013

WorldCat Metadata API Workshop

The WorldCat Metadata API supports a variety of cataloging functionality for libraries to catalog their collections in WorldCat. This API provides you with the tools to create applications to add new, and enrich existing, WorldCat bibliographic records, and maintain WorldCat institution holdings and local bibliographic data.

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.

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.