15 March 2018

Leveraging the power of the cloud and cooperation

A 30-minute overview of OCLC's strategy for next-generation library services management.

28 February 2018

Connecting with your Cooperative

View this webinar recording, hosted by Meryl Cinnamon, OCLC Member Relations Liaison. Meryl will give you up-to-the-minute information about what's going on at your cooperative.

19 September 2017

Doing things differently: Hear from a university librarian

Hear from Professor John Fobert, Electronic Resources Librarian, about how librarians at Roger Williams University are doing things differently in order to do different things.

10 August 2017

Leveraging the power of the cloud and cooperation

A brief overview of OCLC's cloud-based library management services.

20 July 2017

Connecting with your Cooperative: An OCLC Update

Watch this webinar, hosted by Rob Favini, OCLC Member Relations Liaison. Rob will give you up-to-the-minute information about your cooperative.

30 March 2017

Building a foundation for future library success: Irvine Valley College

Join this 30-minute webinar featuring Celina Lee, Instructional Librarian at Irvine Valley College. Celina will share how the library’s cloud-based library management is facilitating success for both library users and staff.

07 February 2017

Connecting with your Cooperative: An OCLC Update

Register today for the live webinar, hosted by Rob Favini, OCLC Member Relations Liaison. Rob will give you up-to-the-minute information about your cooperative.

03 November 2016

Why WorldShare Management Services? A Virtual Panel Discussion

View this virtual panel discussion to hear from librarians as they share why their libraries made the switch from their former traditional library systems to WMS.

01 November 2016

Managing your library in the cloud – The medical library experience

Guest presenters from the Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, share their library's experience with WorldShare Management Services (WMS). Discover why this library chose to implement a next-generation, cloud based library services platform that offered an enhanced user experience while saving time and money.

26 October 2016

Managing your library in the cloud – The reports and reporting experience

Learn from Nathan Schwartz, Systems Librarian, how the Steelman Library at Southeastern University has simplified report creation and analysis since moving to a cloud-based library management system.

25 October 2016

Managing your library in the cloud – The e-resources management experience

Learn from Barbara Doll, Head of Technical Services, how staff at the Saint Francis University Library, a four-year, coeducational Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania, have improved how they manage the metadata for their library’s e-resources (or e-books, e-journals or e-videos) since moving to a cloud-based library management system.

06 October 2016

Managing your library in the cloud – The community college experience

Learn from Bob Holzmann, Systems & Digital Technology Librarian, how staff at the Tulsa Community College Library have simplified or eliminated daily back-office activities, improved student and faculty interactions and have more time for library enhancement projects and collaboration while holding down costs.

29 September 2016

Managing your library in the cloud – The user experience

Learn from Leecy Barnett, Reference and Instructional Librarian, how staff at Lynn University in Florida, have enriched their users’ experiences since moving to a cloud-based library management system.

19 July 2016

Where there's a Web, there's a way

Join us for a one-hour webinar to learn how you can simplify daily activities for your librarians.

11 May 2016

Save time and streamline workflows with integrated e-resource and print management

Learn from Mary Maroney, Director of Library Services, and Patricia Lombardi, Head of Collection Management and Digital Services, how staff at the Douglas and Judith Krupp Library at Bryant University are saving time and streamlining tasks with the help of their complete, cloud-based library management system.

26 April 2016

Exploring, selecting and implementing a new library system: Practical tips from librarians

Join this virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently been through the process of exploring, selecting and implementing a new library system.

19 April 2016

Increasing user satisfaction doesn’t have to create more work for staff

Learn from Nerissa Lindsey, Catalog Librarian, how staff at the Killam Library at Texas A&M International University saved time with new workflow efficiencies and improved students’ access to electronic resources since moving to a cloud-based library management system.

23 March 2016

Transforming library services: from five to one
A WorldShare Management Services success story

Learn from Catherine Boswell, Coordinator of University Library Systems, how Antioch University Libraries are saving time with centralized cataloging and improving services for their students after moving five campus libraries, originally on different library systems, to one cloud-based library management system.

29 October 2015

Why WorldShare Management Services?
A Virtual Panel of Librarians for Librarians

Join us for an online virtual panel discussion to hear from libraries as they share why they made the switch from their former traditional library systems to WMS.

20 August 2015

Improving visibility while simplifying processes in a medical center library

Watch this 30-minute webinar with a guest presenter from the H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library at UCSF Medical Center, Mount Zion in California. Laura Olson, Web Librarian, will share her library’s experience with WorldShare Management Services (WMS). During this session, you will:

• Hear why the H.M. Fishbon Memorial Library chose to implement WMS
• Learn the ways WMS is creating efficiencies for staff, faculty, students and patients
• Explore how WMS has enabled staff to spend less time managing systems so they can focus on other priorities.

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.

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.

13 November 2014

Streamlining library workflows to maximize efficiency

Learn how WorldShare Management Services have enabled libraries to free up resources so they can focus on the higher priority projects and programs that make their institutions unique and enable them to serve their users better.

11 November 2014

Finding a common language: Putting Software Development Practices to Use

At this session, Karen Coombs, Senior Product Analyst for Global Product Management at OCLC, showed attendees how to put software development practices to use.

06 November 2014

Continued collaboration through community connections

During this session, you will learn how:
- The WorldShare Management Services community continues to streamline workflows and collaborate to make improvements to the services
- Being part of a cooperative is beneficial to your library
- Your contributions can enhance the services.

17 July 2014

VIAF API Workshop

The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) API allows searching for authority data by keyword, local name, preferred name form, title, source, or control number of source records and retrieves authority records and relationships between authority records from different, international sources.