Build your future collection with OCLC's Choreo Insights. 📈 Join us on 11 September to learn how our analytics solution helps library leaders better align academic library collections with institutional priorities, support new and emerging curriculum needs, and plan for future trends. With Choreo Insights, you can: 🔵 Investigate overlaps, gaps, and combined collections to ensure optimal resource availability for faculty and students 🟢 Contribute tangible advancements for institution-level diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by identifying collection issues as a starting point for remediation programs 🟠 Identify cost-saving opportunities between libraries, groups, and consortia to reduce redundancy and relieve budget pressures ⤵️ Click below to register. #OCLCchoreo --- #OCLC #LibraryAnalytics #LibraryCollections #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
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We are thrilled to launch a new website for Italian-speaking users, designed with and for Italian libraries, to facilitate better access to OCLC services, research, programs, and other resources. 🇮🇹 ➡️ Click here to explore the new OCLC Italia website and meet our local team: connect.oclc.org/it/home --- #OCLC #OCLCit #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
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The University of San Diego’s Copley Library not only survived, but thrived, through a renovation, COVID-19, a website redesign, an 18-month position vacancy, and a system migration between 2019 and mid-2024. And during those last 14 months, the library gained 6,947 new clicks to its library catalog resulting from Copley’s participation in OCLC’s web visibility program. Laura Turner, Head of Collections, Access, and Discovery at Copley Library, explains how the program helped continue to drive users to their collections during times of change and challenge. "We gained all of these clicks during the e-resources position vacancy, COVID, and several other projects, when everything was a blur,” Laura said. “The results were mind blowing. Because the program uses geolocation, we knew we were connecting our user community to our resources. This was so exciting, because to me, every click counts. Every click is important. And the web visibility program was so easy for us to implement." ⤵️ Click below to read more. #OCLCmembers --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
Make every click count with OCLC’s web visibility program | The University of San Diego, Copley Library | OCLC
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Unlocking the power of your e-resources with EZproxy Analytics. 🔓 Join us on 10 September to learn how this turnkey service extracts, enriches, and transforms complex data into simple visual dashboards, making it easy to better understand and communicate e-resource return on investment. Explore how EZproxy Analytics can help your library: 🔵 Better inform purchasing decisions with authoritative usage data that can supplement COUNTER reports 🟢 Evaluate which e-resources to renew, cancel, or acquire 🟠 Show how your collection contributes to valuable research and academic curriculum 🔵 Create compelling charts, graphs, and other visualizations 🟢 Make your e-resources more discoverable 🟠 Get insight on which websites users access your e-resources and in what formats ⤵️ Click below to register. #OCLCezproxy --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
Unlocking the power of your e-resources with EZproxy Analytics | OCLC
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Library cards are like Pokémon—you "gotta catch 'em all!" During #LibraryCardSignUpMonth, head to your local library, get signed up, and enter new worlds with books, e-books, audiobooks, museum passes, and more. ➡️ Visit WorldCat.org to explore the world's libraries and their collections, then see what items are available near you or ask your library if they can get it for you through interlibrary loan. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
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#EngagedLibraries serve up real-life learning. 🍽️ The Kansas City Public Library recently opened The Nook, a new coffee bar and culinary learning lab at its Central Library. With literary-inspired drinks, sandwiches, and baked goods, the library partnered with The Prospect KC, a culinary social enterprise, to teach the next generation of chefs through employment opportunities, pop-up courses, tastings, food prep classes, menu creation workshops, and more. It’s a win-win for the community—while the learning happens behind the scenes, the community gets to enjoy coffee creations and tasty treats while taking in a good book. 📲 We want to know how your library is bringing job skills into the stacks. 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 watch a reel about The Nook. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
#EngagedLibraries serve up real-life learning. How does your library bring job skills into the stacks? | OCLC
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OCLC's WebJunction has been awarded a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to partner with the Idaho Commission for Libraries to develop a free online continuing education program for public library staff. The new set of courses will focus on core library services such as collection development, collection maintenance, cataloging, and delivery of programming and services that are responsive to community needs. ⤵️ Click below to read more. #IMLSgrant #OCLCnews --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
OCLC awarded IMLS grant to develop free online continuing education program for public library staff | OCLC
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Are we at a “Toy Story” moment with linked data? The first feature-length film created entirely with CGI was a game changer, setting a new standard for animated movies. In this #OCLCnext blog, Mary Sauer-Games, Vice President of Global Product Management at OCLC, provides a synopsis of our commitment to linked data — from the initial research groundwork to the long-term strategy — and shares why this could be a similar "Toy Story" moment for library metadata. "What’s important to remember is that moving to linked data is more than a technological upgrade," Mary writes. "It’s a fundamental shift towards a more discoverable, collaborative and dynamic knowledge ecosystem, where libraries are valued contributors. By participating in this change, libraries not only enhance their own operations but also contribute to the broader goal of creating a more informed and connected world." ⤵️ Click below to read more. --- #OCLC #LinkedData #Metadata #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
OCLC’s role in advancing library linked data | OCLC
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Whether you’re getting started or just need a refresher, there’s a wide range of free product training available. All resources are developed by OCLC experts with library experience and include: 🔵 18,000+ pages of system documentation and support solutions 🟢 300+ training on-demand videos 🟠 Live training classes and office hours with experts New and updated resources are added often, including dates for live sessions. Currently, instructor-led online training is scheduled for products including Connexion client, CONTENTdm, FirstSearch, Tipasa, WorldCat Discovery, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldShare Collection Manager, and WorldShare Record Manager. And if you don’t see what you need, let us know. ⤵️ Click below to explore new and updated training resources. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
Get new and updated training resources | OCLC
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Check out this exciting work on reparative description at the Alexander Turnbull Library (National Library of New Zealand). ⤵️ We’re thrilled to see that #OCLCresearch's Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project contributed to this important effort. ➡️ Revisit the Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project and report here: https://lnkd.in/ea_5dr7v --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
Updating the language we use to describe our collections
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