Standardize local cataloging for a smoother user experience
With WorldShare® Lexicon, your library can standardize cataloging practices, improve search accuracy, and support your users with more organized, discoverable collections.
Managing diverse collections, maintaining consistency, and ensuring cataloging records reflect linguistic and cultural diversity has never been easier.
WorldShare Lexicon is an advanced regional authority management solution designed to directly address contextual cataloging challenges. With tailored authority control and seamless integration into your library’s cataloging workflow, WorldShare Lexicon enables your team to produce accurate, relevant, and efficient catalog records that meet your community’s unique needs.
Be the authority in local catalog management
When national or global standards don't align with local needs, relevance and discoverability decrease. Complicated authority management can force libraries to adapt national or global standards that don’t align with local needs, minimizing relevance and accessibility for users. WorldShare Lexicon solves this problem, enabling creation of local authority files across MARC fields, ensuring precise bibliographic records.
Enhance cataloging with regional terms, address gaps in national authorities, and support local languages.
Empower staff to manage customized thesauri
The goal of cataloging is to enhance user discovery, but when thesauri do not accommodate regional, cultural, or linguistic differences, or use outdated or misunderstood terms, frustration arises. WorldShare Lexicon empowers libraries to create and maintain customized thesauri, improving semantic cataloging and subject access to specialized collections.
WorldShare Lexicon seamlessly links custom authorities to WorldCat records for real-time updates.
Seamlessly integrate with WMS for accuracy, efficiency, and value
Workflows can become complex and costly to implement when it comes to consistently updating WorldShare authority files and managing thesauri. By integrating with WMS, Lexicon can help you manage local authority files and hierarchical thesauri, address cataloging gaps, and ensure greater accuracy across collections.
By streamlining workflows and reducing reliance on costly third-party solutions, WorldShare Lexicon delivers both efficiency and value.
Streamline cataloging with an accessible and scalable solution
Catalogers often face challenges managing authorities, lacking training and resources on complex global standards and effective authority management. Librarians can tackle those obstacles with user-friendly tools, region-specific training, and an intuitive interface. Designed for academic and special libraries, WorldShare Lexicon adapts to local needs while adhering to global standards like MARC21.
WorldShare Lexicon scales with your library’s growth, offering accessibility and efficiency for catalogers at all levels.
