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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.

Share your library’s #EngagedLibaries success stories | OCLC 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...

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

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.

How to host a job fair at your library 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.

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.

Upcoming conferences | OCLC View upcoming OCLC conference opportunities.

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

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.

25 years of Jeugdbieb.nl: A small idea that became a public good | OCLC Twenty-five years ago, a youth librarian in the Netherlands saw a problem that many parents, educators, and librarians are still grappling with today.

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.

How to build a complete library services platform with OCLC services | Putting the Pieces Together | OCLC 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

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 selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services to support students and research | OCLC 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.

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