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Stay connected with Abstracts. 📨 Our flagship newsletter offers a quick look at the latest from OCLC, including major announcements, the newest OCLC Research publications, key product and service updates, and featured events such as upcoming conferences and webinars. Abstracts also frequently highlights the work of member libraries large and small, focusing on how OCLC services and initiatives allow them to collaborate, create and share collections, engage with the communities they serve, and more. Abstracts is your digest of OCLC's most important and interesting news. ⤵️ Click below to subscribe now. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

We can't wait to see you next month at #ALAAC24 in San Diego! ☀️ Working together during the past six decades, we’ve transformed librarianship and increased the impact that libraries have on their communities. And we’re just getting started! From linked data to AI to collection analytics, we continue to innovate by collaborating with and for libraries. Visit our experts at the OCLC booth to discuss the next great transformations. And consider joining us at one of our sessions. There’s a lot you won’t want to miss, including a panel discussion on AI, an introduction to OCLC Meridian and WorldCat Entities, and a resource sharing breakfast. ⤵️ Click below to view our conference page and register for OCLC sessions. --- #OCLC American Library Association #EngagedLibraries #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Evaluate your library's print collection with OCLC's GreenGlass. Join us on 23 May for a 60-minute panel discussion with librarians who use this interactive, web-based support tool that gives them the data they need to make informed decisions. You'll learn about motivations for library staff to do a collection evaluation; experiences using GreenGlass to explore, compare, and visualize collection attributes; and how GreenGlass helps define goals for retention, deselection, and other collection management priorities. Panelists include: 🔵 Nicole Colello-Klubick, Head of Delivery Services at the University at Buffalo 🟢 Robert Garzillo, Technical Services Librarian at the Rhode Island School of Design 🟠 Keri Prelitz, Collection Development and Management Librarian at California State University, Fullerton ⤵️ Click below to register. #OCLCgreenglass --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Join us on 6 June (9:00 a.m. EDT/3:00 p.m. CEST) for the OCLC-LIBER Europe "Building for the future" closing plenary session. Libraries are navigating a complex landscape of emerging technologies and ever-growing quantities of data, impacting library operations, and transforming service offerings. Responding to these changes is critical, and between November 2023 and April 2024, OCLC and LIBER jointly convened three interactive discussion sessions to closely examine the opportunities and responsibilities libraries face in providing state-of-the-art services in this challenging environment. The 75-minute closing plenary session will offer key insights gleaned from these sessions, synthesized from the numerous small group discussions of transcontinental participants from the LIBER and OCLC Research Library Partnership networks. A moderated panel of LIBER representatives will respond to this overview and reflect upon how these discussions can help research libraries collaboratively plan in these challenging times. ⤵️ Click below to register for this session and learn more about the series. --- #OCLC #OCLCresearch #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #ResearchLibrary #ResearchLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

The community-informed Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project and resulting report was an opportunity for OCLC to reflect on our own role in repairing systems and workflows. During the development of OCLC’s linked data ecosystem, the WorldCat ontology, our teams conducted an internal diversity, equity, and inclusion review of the ontology prior to release. #OCLCresearch's Merrilee Proffitt reviews how our teams across the organization came together with library professionals to "dream and enact change." "As a result of this process, OCLC is making improvements to the WorldCat ontology," Merrilee writes. "This effort, working in community to ensure that the WorldCat ontology shifts away from systems and structures that were developed during the nineteenth century, demonstrates that this work is complex, nuanced—and worth undertaking." ⤵️ Click below to read more in this #HangingTogether blog. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

In 2023, Brooklyn Public Library launched a research project to collect and study cardholder signup policies from public libraries across the US. The project aimed to identify the range of policies and procedures that govern cardholder access as well as the rationale used for establishing these policies. Join OCLC's WebJunction on Wednesday, 22 May, for a discussion about the inspiration for this study, how the research was conducted, and the key findings using data from 1,800 US public libraries. "Cardholder signup policies: Access in practice" is presented by: 🔵 Amy Mikel, Brooklyn Public Library 🟢 Emily Thomas, Avenue M Group ⤵️ Click below to register. #WJwebinar --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

#EngagedLibraries sow seeds of learning. 🪴 Today’s libraries continue to broaden their community impact both within and beyond the four walls of their physical locations. In a new article from OCLC’s WebJunction, discover how libraries worldwide are creating green spaces and gardening programs through the power of partnerships. Be inspired by libraries that offer their communities ways to contribute to a more sustainable future and get ideas from unique approaches with examples from Michigan, Canada, Ireland, and beyond. 📲 We want to know how your library is digging in on garden programming. Share your story on social media by including #EngagedLibraries and tagging OCLC in your post. You could be featured in an upcoming issue of Abstracts, on our community engagement hub, in an upcoming blog or video, or across our social media channels. ⤵️ Click below to explore resources to grow a library garden program. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Interested in exploring, selecting, and implementing a new library system? Join us on 21 May for a one-hour virtual panel discussion to get tips from librarians who’ve recently implemented a new, cloud-based library system with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. Our panelists will share what helped and hindered their search, questions that led them towards a decision, and what they wish they knew before they went through the process. ⤵️ Click below to register. #OCLCwms --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibrarianLife #LibraryLove

A new single sign-on feature connecting Comics Plus content to cloudLibrary allows library users to experience seamless access to more than 25,000 unlimited, simultaneous-use digital comics, manga, and picture books from the cloudLibrary app. Until now, cloudLibrary users had to log into the Comics Plus app separately; now they have access with one touch from the cloudLibrary app. The Comics Plus platform is powered by LibraryPass, which curates high-interest, immersive digital content that helps schools and libraries expand and diversify their collections—without breaking their materials budgets. cloudLibrary, recently acquired by OCLC, is a trusted platform for accessing eBooks, audiobooks, streaming video, digital magazines, digital newspapers, and digital comics. ⤵️ Click below to read more. #ReadAllTheComics #OCLCnews --- #OCLC #OCLCcloudlibrary #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

The opioid crisis continues to rage unabated in our communities and worsened in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public libraries have a critical opportunity to support the information needs of patrons dealing with and impacted by substance misuse. Join WebJunction on 16 May to learn about the new “Opioid Crisis Support Kit for Public Libraries” with information and strategies for library staff to support individuals and families affected by substance misuse. "Supporting healthy communities: Public library responses to the opioid crisis" is presented by: 🔵 Drea Douglas, North Bend Public Library 🟢 Karen Wilson, Charles County Public Library 🟠 Kendra Morgan, WebJunction ⤵️ Click below to learn more and register. #WJwebinar --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove