« OCLC has agreed to acquire Relais International, a leading interlibrary loan solution provider based in Ottawa, Canada, to significantly increase resource sharing options and capabilities for both Relais customers and OCLC member libraries and groups worldwide. (…) »
« OCLC introduces Tipasa™, the first cloud-based interlibrary loan management system that automates routine borrowing and lending functions for individual libraries. The new Tipasa system is built on the OCLC WorldShare technology platform and takes advantage of the world’s largest resource sharing network. (…) »
« OCLC members and staff come together as a community to make breakthroughs happen today and shate history, knowledge and community in order to make positive changes on behalf of those we serve.
Together, we identify challenges that cross institutional and national boundaries. Together, we find better…
« OCLC and Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperative effort to ensure the future sustainability of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new sustainable service hosted by Internet Archive that will manage persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org,…
« OCLC, the global library cooperative, and the Society of Collage, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) today announced a new agreement for the provision of collaborative after-hours virtual reference services in the United Kingdom and Ireland (…)
The service is provided by OCLC using its…
« (…) « WorldCat represents the cooperative spirit of thousands of librarians and catalogers around the world who have contributed to this unique resource for the past 45 years, » said Skip Prichard, OCLC President and CEO. « What started as a database created for Ohio libraries to share work and resources…
« The International Linked Data Survey for Implementers conducted by OCLC Research in 2014 and 2015 attracted responses from 90 institutions in 20 countries. This analysis of the 112 linked data projects or services described by the 2015 respondents — those that publish linked data, consume linked data, or…
« OCLC announced today the acquisition of IFNET through its subsidiary OCLC EMEA B.V. IFNET is the distributor of library automation software and services in Italy.
IFNET, formerly IF, was founded in Italy in 1985 by a group of librarians with the goal of establishing a national…
« Research libraries are exploring opportunities to cooperatively address areas of mutual need, including collection management and the long-term stewardship of the legacy print investment. Analysis of collective collections is a valuable source of insight and intelligence to support planning in an environment where libraries seek to create value…
« Starting 2016, in addition to the presence of SciELO in Google Scholar and selectively in the major journal bibliographic indexes, all SciELO journals and eBooks are fully indexed and discoverable via the world’s major Discovery Services – EBSCO Discovery Service, Ex-Libris Primo Central, and the WorldCat Discovery Service.…
