Training resources

General

• WebJunction – A learning platform that is free and welcome to all libraries to use, regardless of size, type or location. It includes several services such as:
  • Course Marketing, Promotion, and Access
  • Webinar Production and Hosting
  • Online Training Projects
  • Train-the-Online-Trainer
• Next – An OCLC blog covering topics related to the library profession by the institution’s leaders. It is a great resource about the future of the libraries and “repository” of great ideas to get inspiration or even implement.
• Skip Prichard – The official webpage of the President and CEO of OCLC. Get inspiration from his blog posts and his podcasts.
• Webinars – Watch recorded webinars and register for upcoming ones.

Services in RESPOND

Overview

AMICAL-OCLC RESPOND program: updates from OCLC, showcasing LAU, and benefits for participating AMICAL libraries (60 mins)

Cataloging

• WorldShare Collection Manager: What it is and why it matters. (69 mins)
• How libraries use WorldShare Collection Manager: Learn how libraries can use Collection Manager to simplify their workflows and improve collection visibility. (6 mins)
• WorldShare Records Manager: There are a series of line and recorded training sessions all about WorldShare Record Manager
• Introduction to WorldShare Records Manager (11 mins)
• Data sync: why it matters and what it means for your collections (33 mins)

WorldCat Discovery

• Get started with WorldCat Discovery (6 mins)
• WorldCat Discovery search fundamentals (70 mins)
• WorldCat Discovery interface features (70 mins)
• Arabization and Arabic searching in WorldCat Discovery (39 mins)

FirstSearch

• A brief look at OCLC FirstSearch (2 mins)
• FirstSearch Overview (60 mins)

WorldShare ILL

• Introduction to OCLC Interlibrary Loan
• Recorded Session (96 mins)
• Successfully meeting user expectations with WorldShare ILL: two library case studies (53 mins)
• Automate ILL workflows with the world’s largest resource sharing network, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (57 mins)

WorldShare Collection Evaluation

• WorldShare Collection Evaluation
• Get started with Collection Evaluation (17 mins)

Other services

Management services

• CONTENTdm – Build, showcase, and preserve digital collections.
• EZproxy – Access & authentication software
  • Overview (21 min)
  • Simplify your e-resource access with OCLC’s Hosted EZproxy (52 mins)
• EZproxy Analytics – Support strategic library goals with a better understanding of e‑resource ROI.
  • Overview (2 min)
• Tipasa – Simplify the complexities of resource sharing
  • Overview (33 min)
• WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway – Metadata harvesting tool
  • Get started
• WorldShare Management Services – Enable shared efficiencies and innovation. Individual products: WorldShare Acquisitions, WorldShare Circulation, WorldCat Discovery, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldShare Report Designer, WorldShare Collection Management and WorldShare Record Manager
  • WMS (2 min)

Metadata Services

• CatExpress cataloging – Simple-to-use copy cataloging solution
• Connexion cataloging tool – Create, manage and download high-quality bibliographic and authority records
• Dewey Services – Improve the organization of your materials
• Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) service – Connect authority data across cultures and languages to facilitate research
• WorldShare Collection Manager – Streamline & automate e-collection management
• WorldShare Record Manager – Record-at-a-time cataloging service