Tag Archives: OCLC

Communication, Materials

OCLC at 50 years: a “moonshot” for the world’s libraries

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OCLC is an organization hugely important to the library profession; and it’s great to see the thinking they are doing about their next fifty years!

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As we’ve prepared for our 50th anniversary celebrations, I’ve been thinking about the time of our founding in the late 1960s and what it meant for our cultural ideals of technology and progress. OCLC was born in 1967, between the time of John F. Kennedy’s 1961 speech in which he set the goal of landing a man on the moon, and the fulfillment of that dream in 1969.

I think there are exciting parallels between that dream, its completion and the incredible journey that OCLC libraries have undertaken together over the past five decades. Continue reading OCLC at 50 years: a “moonshot” for the world’s libraries →

Conference

ILL Conference Highlight: Revolutionizing Resource Sharing with OCLC’s Katie Birch

“REGISTER TODAY to attend the 2017 Minitex ILL Conference including Katie Birch’s session, “Revolutionizing Resource Sharing.”

Katie Birch has spent much of her career in resource sharing. Between 2005 and 2008, Katie took a lead role in the development of the UnityUK service, a country-wide resource sharing service in the UK. She is currently the Executive Director – Resource Sharing at OCLC, and is based in Dublin, Ohio. In this capacity, Katie oversees WorldShare ILL, including Article Exchange, Policies Directory and IFM, as well as ILLiad, Tipasa, Relais, VDX and WorldCat Navigator. Additionally, Katie is responsible for OCLC’s shared print strategy and OCLC’s Analytics product set. Katie moved from the UK to the USA in 2012.

EVENT DETAILS
8:30 AM – 3:15 PM, May 17, 2017
Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108

Please contact Becky Ringwelski at e-ring@umn.edu or Tammi Halverson at halve186@umn.edu with your questions or comments.

Services

Learn how Disney does customer service this year at the ILL Conference

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REGISTER NOW! The deadline is May 10.

WHEN
8:30 AM – 3:15 PM, May 17, 2017

WHERE
Continuing Education & Conference Center
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul Campus
1890 Buford Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108

WHY
You don’t want to miss it! Our keynote speaker is J. Jeff Kober, President of Performance Journeys and CEO of World Class Benchmarking. Kober’s keynote, “Things I Wish I Could Tell My Librarian,” will offer big-picture insights to improve the experience of your library patrons. Kober previously worked for the Disnety Institute and is the author of “The Wonderful World of Customer Service at Disney.”

Katie Birch of OCLC and Valerie Horton of Minitex will also speak, and the afternoon will feature four breakout sessions. See the full event listing on Minitex News to get all the details.

Please contact Becky Ringwelski at e-ring@umn.edu or Tammi Halverson at halve186@umn.edu with your questions or comments. Image courtesy of PerformanceJourneys.com.

Communication, Research, Tech

OCLC and ACRL: Visualization tool evaluation

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Participate in the evaluation of the visualization tool for our

ACRL OCLC Research Agenda Project

OCLC is working with the American Library Association, Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) to develop a research agenda for student learning and success. The agenda is based on a literature review of library and information science (LIS) and higher education documents together with interviews of academic library administrators and representatives from provost offices at academic institutions within the US. Part of the project includes a visualization tool to search the reviewed literature and to create visualizations. Continue reading OCLC and ACRL: Visualization tool evaluation →

Academic, General, Public, School Media Specialist, Special

How do YOU save the users time?

IMG90862Have you heard of LibrariesInLife? I am not quite sure what to name it, but OCLC Next recently did a bang up job of proposing a way using Twitter to get conversations going about how you and I save our users time. They write clearly about the convenience imperative…and venture that in today’s fast moving world, that convenience trumps everything else. Today’s dilemma for librarians is about how to “free our users’ time.” They go on to propose that Ranganathan’s Fourth Law of saving the time of the reader, should now be first! Makes sense to me….I witness this all the time when friends or family want to read a book but do not want to wait for it through the public library. With one touch, they simply buy the eBook online and the transaction is over! It is hard to argue with that kind of convenience.

Take five minutes to read the full post to better understand what this conversation is all about.

On Twitter, join in the conversation with hashtags #LibrariesInLife and #OCLCnext. Can’t read one more thing? Listen to  Lynn Silipigni-Connaway in this video as she describes this work.

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