Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that public libraries in the US are working with the cooperative to help make OCLC WorldShare Management Services the 21st-century solution for library management. San Juan Island Library in Washington and Union County Public Library in North Carolina recently selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as their Web-based cooperative library management solution.
The San Juan Island Library plans to implement OCLC WorldShare Management Services by the end of 2012. According to Marjorie Harrison, Library Director, the decision to select WorldShare Management Services was based on the seamless integration of the services and the potential to streamline processes and lower costs.
Harrison will share her library's story during a special OCLC event at the 2012 Public Library Association Conference in Philadelphia. The event, which will illustrate how libraries using OCLC WorldShare Management Services are able to reduce the time needed for traditional tasks and free staff time for higher-priority services, will be held on March 15, from 1:30–3 p.m. in the Courtyard by Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Salons II–III.
Union County Public Library also plans to implement WorldShare Management Services by the end of this year.
OCLC WorldShare Management Services provide libraries with a new approach to managing library services cooperatively, including integrated acquisitions, cataloguing, circulation, resource sharing, license management and patron administration, as well as a next-gen discovery tool for library users. The services enable libraries to share infrastructure costs and resources, as well as collaborate in ways that free them from the restrictions of local hardware and software.
