#EngagedLibraries lend the unexpected. 🎛️ The idea of offering a Library of Things has been growing in popularity in recent years. Stories about these unique collections are popping up all over mainstream and social media, and libraries are getting creative in their offerings with everything from cookware and spices to robots and kayaks. Are you looking for tips and inspiration to develop your own Library of Things? Check out this new article from WebJunction, which includes examples from Augusta Township Public Library’s recreation lending library, Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library’s plant propagation station, and more. You'll also learn how to select, budget, catalog, display, sustain, and market a collection of your own. 📲 We want to hear what's offered in your Library of Things. 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 read the article. --- #OCLC #LibraryOfThings #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
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Making e-resources easier to find, share, manage, and use: Join us on 17 September to learn how WorldShare License Manager allows you to manage your library's license agreements, rights, access, and resolution to full text more easily. With this service, you get a full analytics database of statistics to help you make better decisions about your e-resource licenses over their life cycles and ensure your library provides access to the resources your users need. In addition to seamless integration with your existing OCLC subscriptions, you can: 🔵 Automatically maintain accurate links 🟢 Streamline workflows with "crowd-sourced" templates 🟠 Automate your ILL connection 🔵 Inform your decision making with usage statistics 🟢 Instantly publish and maintain Discovery public notes 🟠 Automate your license trials ⤵️ Click below to learn more and register. #OCLCworldshare --- #OCLC #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
Making e-resources easier to find, share, manage, and use: A demo of how License Manager integrates with existing OCLC services | OCLC
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We love connecting with library leaders and staff at conferences and events. Bookmark our upcoming conferences webpage to see where we’ll be in the coming months. We look forward to learning more about your library and sharing the latest OCLC happenings and product updates. ⤵️ Click below to see our upcoming conference schedule. --- #OCLC #EngagedLibraries #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
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ICYMI: 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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#EngagedLibraries explore the wild. 🐺 From owls and wolves to snakes and sea anemones, libraries are helping their community members experience wildlife right in their own backyards through wildlife education programs. In this new article from OCLC’s WebJunction, discover how libraries are sparking curiosity and appreciation for the animals that share our environment, including program specifics from Abilene Public Library, Clifton Public Library, and more. 📲 We want to know how your library is helping community members experience the wonders of nature. 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 get inspired by library wildlife programs. --- #OCLC #PublicLibrary #PublicLibraries #AcademicLibrary #AcademicLibraries #Library #Libraries #Librarian #Librarians #LibraryLife #LibraryLove
#EngagedLibraries explore the wild. How does your library is help the community experience the wonders of nature? | OCLC
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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
Building your future collection: A demonstration of the Choreo Insights library analytics solution | OCLC
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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