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10/10/2026

share ideas for success. 💡 Has your library built an incredible community partnership? Did you recently host an event that brought people together? Have you or a colleague had a breakthrough worthy of celebration?

📲 We want to shine a spotlight on your story and expand its reach by sharing it with the global library community. Help us grow the conversation by using in your posts.

⤵️ Learn how to share your community engagement success stories.

invites library workers to share stories of community engagement success across their social media channels. Consider posting ideas that your peers might find helpful, highlights of impactful programs and partnerships, or breakthrough celebrations and the people who made them happe...

10/08/2026

ICYMI: We've introduced a new, modern version of the digital collection management platform, empowering libraries, archives, and museums to make their unique digital collections more visible, accessible, and connected than ever. The platform has been completely redesigned, in close collaboration with users, to meet digital collection management needs today and into the future. It is now available in the United States and will be available in other regions in the coming months.

➡️ Read more: https://oc.lc/4BdY5hl

10/07/2026

Public libraries are uniquely positioned to support workforce development and connect jobseekers with meaningful employment opportunities. 💼 Join OCLC's WebJunction on 13 October to learn practical strategies for executing a successful job fair at your library.

⤵️ Register here.

Public libraries are uniquely positioned to support workforce development and connect job seekers with meaningful employment opportunities. This session will guide attendees through the process of planning, promoting, and executing a successful job fair at their library.

10/06/2026

Let’s connect at a conference or event near you! 👋 We’re passionate about working alongside libraries to create better solutions and help them serve their communities. Your feedback and insights make the work we do powerful, and conferences and events provide the opportunity for us to learn about your library, explore how we can work together, and share the latest OCLC happenings and product updates.

🔖⤵️ Bookmark our Upcoming Conferences webpage to see where we’ll be in the coming months.

View upcoming OCLC conference opportunities.

10/04/2026

are newsmakers. 📰 As journalism has rapidly shifted to digital platforms, there has been a disconnect in how we connect in the community and engage with local news. The Library Newsroom Project looks to bridge that gap by "transforming libraries into collaborative hubs where residents, library staff, and journalists work together to share stories, address local challenges, and strengthen civic life."

➡️ Read more: https://oc.lc/46SzFvK

10/03/2026

Twenty-five years ago, a youth librarian in the Netherlands created a website that would become one of the country's most trusted online information resources for children. 🇳🇱

⤵️ In this blog, Vincent Jordaan shares how Jeugdbieb.nl is an example of what's possible when librarians, communities, and mission-driven organizations work together to make lasting impacts.

Twenty-five years ago, a youth librarian in the Netherlands saw a problem that many parents, educators, and librarians are still grappling with today.

10/01/2026

After years on a local system, Bergen Community College migrated to OCLC's WorldShare Management Services ( ), consolidating workflows in a single, cloud-based platform, reducing maintenance overhead, and giving staff more flexibility to optimize services over time.

For David Marks, Dean of the Library at Bergen Community College, going "all in" provided a solution that could bring together local holdings and resource sharing across OCLC's member libraries while also simplifying their library's technology footprint.

➡️ Read more: https://oc.lc/4jxwMb2

09/30/2026

If your library catalogs and shares resources through OCLC, you’re already using part of a full library services platform. 🧩 Join us on 7 October to learn how completing the system with OCLC's WorldShare Management Services is a matter of adding the applications you don’t have yet—not migrating to something new.

⤵️ Register here.

A 30-minute webinar that explains how adding acquisitions, circulation, and discovery—to the OCLC cataloging and ILL services your library already uses—gives you a complete library services platform in WorldShare Management Services

09/29/2026

Loughborough University (🇬🇧) has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services ( ) as its new library services platform to support a superior student experience, advance research, and provide efficient, reliable access to its wide range of library content.

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Loughborough University has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform to support a superior student experience, advance research, and provide efficient, reliable access to its wide range of library content.

09/29/2026

We’re excited to be at the IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Interlending and Document Supply Conference, hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma. 🇮🇹 We are on site to connect with the global resource sharing community and discuss how libraries can continue to expand access to the materials their users need. Visit the OCLC stand to meet our experts and talk about interlibrary loan, document delivery, and the future of resource sharing.

➡️ Learn more about the conference: https://oc.lc/3TdI4GZ