Library Technology Guides

University of Glasgow selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their new library services platform. The University of Glasgow has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as their new fully integrated library services platform, a move that they are confident will provide an improved experience for all users of the library. The University of Glasgow is a global top 100 university and a member of the prestigious Russell Group. [Full Announcement].

Two Spanish university libraries select OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their new library services platform. The University of Zaragoza and Loyola University, both in Spain, have selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their fully integrated library services platform to handle all essential functions of several campus libraries. [Full Announcement].

Three more libraries join OCLC's WorldShare Management Services community in the Middle East. Three more libraries based in the Middle East have recently selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their new library services platform to better serve students, faculty, and their local and regional communities as well as to gain international visibility of their collections, including American University of Kurdistan, The Africa Institute Library - Global Studies University, and the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr. [Full Announcement].

OCLC is highest ranked supplier on latest APUC framework agreement. OCLC has once again been recognized as the highest-ranked supplier in the latest Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges framework agreement for library management systems. This marks the second time OCLC has earned this distinction, having previously secured the top ranking in 2020 for WorldShare Management Services. [Full Announcement].

WISPALS Library Consortium selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform. The WISPALS Library Consortium, a consortium of Wisconsin technical colleges, has selected WorldShare Management Services as its library services platform. WMS will help WISPALS libraries improve efficiency, share resources, and provide a better user experience for students and faculty. [Full Announcement].

10 libraries in Alberta to join OCLC's WorldShare Management Services community. libraries from the NEOS Library Consortium in Alberta, Canada, are moving to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries. NEOS is a consortium of government, health, college, and university libraries that cooperate to share library resources, technology, collections, and workflows. Consortium libraries work together on learning initiatives, document delivery, and a range of core library activities. [Full Announcement].

Heidelberg University Library selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform. OCLC announced that internationally esteemed Heidelberg University Library has selected WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its cloud-based library services platform. Heidelberg's selection of WMS follows an extensive review of the modern, next-generation platform. [Full Announcement].

CEU selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services to manage 20 libraries that serve over 96,000 users in Spain. The Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its fully integrated library services platform to handle all essential functions of its diverse institutions' libraries in Spain. In addition to providing a library services platform to bring CEU libraries together, OCLC will create a single catalog of collections from participating institutions to search through one interface. [Full Announcement].

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, a research institution in Germany, is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf conducts research in the fields of energy, health, and matter. The HZDR library is part of the K10plus, a union catalog that brings together more than 200 million holdings of print and digital media from academic libraries in 10 federal states; the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation; and other academic, research, and cultural institutions. Partners include most German state universities and colleges, and institutions such as the Helmholtz Centers. [Full Announcement].

18 more libraries sign on to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services platform to close 2023. In the closing months of 2023, 18 new libraries signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library services platform designed to meet the needs of modern libraries. [Full Announcement].

Canberra Institute of Technology now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. Canberra Institute of Technology, in Australia, has moved to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their library services platform to improve workflows, increase access to more resources for students and faculty, and join an ever-growing global network of collaborating libraries. [Full Announcement].

Auckland Institute of Studies to improve workflows by moving to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. Auckland Institute of Studies in New Zealand has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library management system to integrate workflows and increase visibility and access to more resources. [Full Announcement].

Comfenalco Antioquia Libraries to move to OCLCs WorldShare Management Services platform. Comfenalco Antioquia Libraries, in Medellin, Colombia, has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform. Comfenalco Antioquia will be the first library in Colombia to implement WMS, scheduled to be live with the new platform later this year. Comfenalco Antioquia is a Family Compensation Fund that provides social programs and services in areas of housing, education, culture, libraries, recreation, sport, and tourism. The library comprises 13 physical facilities, including public and school libraries and reading rooms together with four technical areas: Reading Promotion, Library Content, Collection Development, and Local Information Service. The libraries reach more than 3 million users per year, with programs, services and more than 160,000 physical and digital resources. Comfenalco Antioquia Library is moving to WMS from OCLC's OLIB, the library management system they have used for more than 25 years. [Full Announcement].

More libraries sign on to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services platform. Eleven libraries have recently signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services, the fully integrated library platform designed to meet the changing needs of today's libraries. [Full Announcement].

Leading museum organisation in Australia selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. Museums Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, has signed on to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their new library management system to integrate workflows and increase visibility and access to resources. [Full Announcement].

University of Northern British Columbia selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. The University of Northern British Columbia, in Prince George, has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform. The move will improve e-resource management, increase opportunities for collaboration with partner libraries, add flexibility to its system configuration, and allow locally preferred subject headings in the WMS discovery layer that will help UNBC advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. [Full Announcement].

NWU adopts OCLC's WorldShare Management Service supplied and supported by Sabinet for a seamless, centralised library management system. North-West University Library and Information Service has taken a significant step into the future by going live on 06 December 2022, with OCLC's cloud-based library management platform, WorldShare Management Service, which is distributed and supported by Sabinet in South Africa. The adoption of the modern, fourth-generation library management system represents a breakthrough for the NWU community, as it replaces its outdated legacy system. [Full Announcement].

Akkon Hochschule in Berlin to join OCLC's WorldShare community. e Akkon Hochschule für Humanwissenschaften, in Berlin, has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) as its new, cloud-based library services platform to improve workflows, support research, and share resources worldwide through WorldCat. The publicly accredited Akkon Hochschule is Germany's first Hochschule of human sciences, established in 2009. Its core objectives are to make a sustainable contribution to the security of supply, social justice, and preservation of resources, as well as to contribute to the further development of the human sciences, and to inspire innovation. [Full Announcement].

Chaoyang University of Technology is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services. Chaoyang University of Technology, in Taiwan, is now live with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as their new library services platform. [Full Announcement].

ALA Core members now have free access to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services sandbox. OCLC and ALA Core, the newest division of the American Library Association, are partnering to provide free access to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services sandbox, the test environment for the platform, that will allow Core members seeking professional development opportunities a chance to work hands-on with a cloud-based library management system. [Full Announcement].