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#EngagedLibraries provide tools for learning. 🎥 Libraries are a great resource to help people tell their story. In response to community feedback, the Herrin City Library in Illinois opened a new media studio to help residents create videos, record podcasts, preserve old family recordings, and more. Through a grant funded by the Illinois State Library, the studio offers a computer, microphones, lighting, and software for creating and editing digital content. The library hopes it can serve users of all experience levels, helping small business owners, students, families, and anyone in between, promote their work and passions. ⤵️ Read more about the new media studio. --- 📲 Does your library offer digital tools to help the community create and share? Share your story on social media and include #EngagedLibraries 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. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Exciting news! Please join us in thanking OCLC as a continued member of the ARSL Supporters Alliance! OCLC is a global library organization that connects thousands of libraries across 100+ countries through shared technology services, original research, and community programs. From Dublin, Ohio to libraries around the world, OCLC helps make information more accessible and more useful every day. We're thrilled to have them in the ARSL family! Learn more and join the Alliance: https://lnkd.in/gsvbcXh7 #LibrariesStrong #Webjunction #ARSL #SupportersAlliance #OCLC

Built with libraries, for libraries: Join us on 5 August to learn how OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) saves time and resources with efficient management of your library’s resources in one fully integrated solution. During this 30-minute webinar, you will learn how WMS can help your library: 🔵 Simplify workflows with an innovative platform 🟢 Provide users with the resources they need, when they need them 🟠 Automate e-resource management ⤵️ Register here. #OCLCwms --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Public libraries do more than lend books. They help people connect, build social trust, and create stronger communities. To support that work, IREX, the Urban Libraries Council, and OCLC’s WebJunction spent the past year developing the Library Bridgebuilding program, giving library staff practical tools to strengthen relationships and foster a sense of belonging. The effort brought together more than 300 library professionals from 46 states who shared ideas, tested new approaches, and learned from one another through a year-long Community of Practice. Those insights are now available to everyone through the free, on-demand WebJunction course, An Introduction to Bridgebuilding: Creating a Library Where Everyone Belongs. ⤵️ Learn how libraries are turning bridgebuilding into action. --- #OCLC #EngagedLibraries #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

What can we learn from the conversations of global library leadership that spans regions and library types? In this #HangingTogether blog, OCLC's Ellen Hartman recaps the connections made during a recent gathering of the #OCLCleaderscouncil. "When designed well and when opportunities for informal interactions are cultivated, global library leadership spaces create the conditions for the kinds of conversations that go deepest," Ellen writes. "Those conversations rarely happen on the agenda, but rather emerge when enough trust has been built that people are willing to be open and candid with one another." ⤵️ Read more. #OCLCresearch --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #ResearchLibrary #ResearchLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

#EngagedLibraries promote information literacy. ℹ️ From teen game nights to summer reading book bingo, libraries are familiar with using games and play to engage their patrons. Libraries have also been vital educational resources for supporting information literacy and combating misinformation. Empowering Informed Communities is a project from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, in partnership with OCLC’s WebJunction and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, that develops opportunities designed to help library staff support information literacy through fun and games. ⤵️ Learn more and find resources from the project. --- 📲 How does your library tackle important topics in a fun and engaging way? Share your story on social media and include #EngagedLibraries 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. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

Simplified and secure access to your library’s e-resources: Watch our 30-minute on-demand webinar for an overview of OCLC's EZproxy, a fully managed, hosted e-resource access and authentication solution. 🔓 You'll learn how our solution provides simple access, protected privacy, and a new configuration user interface that supports faster, more confident management. ▶️⏺️ Click below to watch now. #OCLCezproxy --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

The University of Medellín (Universidad de Medellín 🇨🇴) has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS/#OCLCwms) as its new library services platform to take full advantage of efficiencies in cataloging, discovery, and resource sharing. The private university was founded in 1950 by a group of intellectuals seeking to provide independent education free from the political and religious tensions of the era. It offers 23 undergraduate programs, 24 specializations, 20 master's degrees, and six doctoral programs. "We are currently in an exciting period of significant change in our Library, involving both our physical facilities and our technology infrastructure," said Sandra Milena Duque Muñetón, Director of the University of Medellín Library. "This transition gives us the opportunity to modernize our library services platform—reducing costs, improving reporting, and strengthening our technical, administrative, and professional workflows—resulting in better service for our users." In 2025, OCLC introduced the Colombia Discovery Catalog, a group catalog that improves libraries' visibility within Colombia by providing a unified view of collections across libraries, and facilitates the sharing of these library resources among Colombian institutions. By selecting WMS, the university will also have its entire library holdings added to the catalog. ⤵️ Read more. #OCLCnews --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #ResearchLibrary #ResearchLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

In March, the OCLC Leaders Council met at our headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, allowing Councilors, Board members, and OCLC's leadership to engage with one another in ways that went beyond the exchange of ideas. In this third article of our series, learn about the topics and themes they engaged on and how their collective leadership continues to evolve to meet changing needs while reinforcing the library’s enduring value within the institutions and communities they serve. Meet our next Councilors to be featured in the article: 🔵 Lorely Ambriz (Councilor-at-Large), Libraries Districtwide Coordinator and Professor, El Paso Community College 🇺🇸 🟢 Cass Kvenild, Dean of Libraries, University of Wyoming 🇺🇸 🟠 Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts, Head of Cataloging and Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Libraries 🇺🇸 🔵 Helen Shenton, Librarian and College Archivist, Trinity College Dublin 🇮🇪 🟢 Sarawoot Watechagit, Library and Knowledge Center Director, Mahidol University 🇹🇭 ⤵️ Read more. #OCLCleaderscouncil --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #ResearchLibrary #ResearchLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove

A milestone reached! University of Glasgow launched its new library management system on Wednesday, bringing two years of evaluation, planning, data wrangling, and implementation to a conclusion. It's been an Herculean task for the project team, moving from an end-of-life system which had been throttling innovation -- and it has involved the contribution of countless functional teams across Information Services. Kudos all round! The exciting thing is that the journey is now just beginning. Achievement unlocked! 😁 A special thanks is due to my UoG colleagues Sian Blake Mick Eadie Christopher L. and Segun Ibigbemi -- and a long list of others including Wendy Walker, Stuart Sharp, Laura Roy, Robert Brown, Kirsteen Valenti Morag Greig Heather Corley Steven Manson Robert Hall Mark Meenan, John Watt Mairin Glenroy, Adam Swann, Bob MacLean, Suzanne Hartley, Leo Konstantelos Joanne Docherty, Edward Napier, Mark Temple, and on and on.... Kudos compadres! Special thanks to OCLC and the terrific project team in Sheffield/Leiden, including Sophie Anderson Christine Willott Ilektra Osmani Annie Charlton and many others with whom I am not a connection on LinkedIn!