Library Management
Manage your entire library system with services that increase efficiency across services, departments and locations.
WorldShare Management Services
The first cooperative management service for libraries
Individual products:
WorldShare Acquisitions, WorldShare Circulation, WorldShare Collection Evaluation, WorldCat Discovery, WorldCat Local, WorldShare Metadata Services, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan, WorldShare License Manager, WorldShare Report Designer
WorldShare License Manager
Easy manager for all your licensed and electronic resources
EZproxy
The leading access and authentication solution
Sustainable Collection Services
Data-driven deselection
Cataloging & Metadata
Build, manage and share data about your collections while making your library more visible.
OCLC Cataloging Subscription
Cataloging services and resources that help manage your collection
WorldShare Metadata Services
A complete metadata management solution for physical, licensed and digital resources
WorldShare Collection Manager
Improve e-management workflow efficiencies and increase collection visibility
Dewey Services
The world's most widely used library classification system
Contract Cataloging
Access to expert cataloging services in a variety of formats and more than 30 languages
CatExpress
A simple-to-use copy cataloging tool that enables you to put materials on the shelves for your users quickly and efficiently
WorldCat Cataloging Partners
OCLC record delivery in coordination with your vendor orders
Resource Sharing
Centralize resource sharing workflows previously managed in multiple systems while speeding fulfillment of interlibrary loan requests.
WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
Integrated discovery and delivery of electronic, digital and print materials
ILLiad
Centralized management for all of your library's borrowing, lending and document delivery services
Discovery & Syndication
Get people to the materials they need from your library and from other libraries worldwide.
WorldCat.org
A Web destination that connects information seekers on the Web to collections in the world's libraries
WorldCat Discovery Services
Cloud-based applications that enable people to search WorldCat® and discover more than 2.7 billion electronic, digital and physical holdings in a single search
Digital Collection Management
Make everything in your digital collections available to online researchers, everywhere, whatever the format.
CONTENTdm
Storage, management and delivery of your digital collections
WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway
Maximize visibility of your digital collections with WorldCat
Virtual Reference
Interact with users in multiple ways, using both chat and email. Your library can also provide around-the-clock reference services through the 24/7 Reference® Cooperative.
QuestionPoint
A complete reference management system, integrating chat and email
WorldShare provides a complete set of library management applications and platform services built on an open, cloud-based platform. WorldShare offers integrated management of library workflows and creates new efficiencies as libraries share work, data and resources to save money and deliver value to their users.
WorldCat is a set of databases that together comprise the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. WorldCat data is contributed, maintained and shared by libraries around the world, and it is managed and enhanced by OCLC. WorldCat data supports a range of OCLC and partner services, driving efficiency in library management, improving discovery of library collections and increasing the visibility of libraries on the Web.
Member stories
Empower staff by helping them to do more
Learn how Bryant University saved time and money to allow staff members to focus on better resources, user services and reporting.
Share solutions through global collaboration
Learn how ADA University in Azerbaijan engages with libraries worldwide to share resources, culture and knowledge.
Want to learn more?
Connect with your OCLC representative to learn how the cooperative's services can reduce local hardware and software dependencies so you can focus more on your users.