Tiny Tech Training - OCLC Group Services
| Site: | MSL Learn |
| Course: | Best of 2023 Tiny Tech Training |
| Book: | Tiny Tech Training - OCLC Group Services |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2025, 11:01 AM |
Watch the Video
This video provides an overview of OCLC Group services with the Montana State Library. It includes consortia director Cara Orban and the lead for the Montana Shared Catalog. This is an overview of OCLC Group Services for both MSC members and non-members, and includes a demonstration of what it looks like from the patron point of view.
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Resources to Explore
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MSL OCLC Group Services information
Visit the MSL OCLC Group Services page to find information and resources related to joining and working within OCLC Group Services.
Montana Shared Catalog information
Access more information about the Montana Shared Catalog. This page includes their Knowledge Base, Technical Support, Sharing Groups and information on how to join the MSC.
Explore WorldCat
The video included a demonstration of what an interaction with WorldCat might look like from the patron perspective. Take a moment to explore WorldCat on your own to see how it interacts with your library.
Take a deeper dive into OCLC
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Visit the OCLC Community Center
The OCLC Community Center is an online forum for library staff to connect with their peers, ask questions about workflows and best practices, and contribute ideas to improve the OCLC products and services their institution subscribes to. Library staff must have WorldShare credentials to access the Community Center.
Request a streamlined holdings update project
This new program from OCLC gives you a fast and easy way to update your library’s holdings in WorldCat®. Updated holdings ensure accurate representation of your library’s collections in OCLC services, such as FirstSearch®, WorldCat Discovery, WorldShare® ILL, and Connexion®. Up-to-date holdings in WorldCat also ensure people on the web can find items in library collections on WorldCat.org™ and through our partnerships with popular websites like Google Books, Wikipedia, and Goodreads.Set up automated holdings feeds for knowledge base collections
Automatic Holdings Feeds contain data specific to each library. The feeds have your library's specific subset of titles. The data is dynamic or changes over time as your library purchases titles, modifies subscriptions, or as titles are triggered for purchase.Think about it
The video brought up many ways that your library can use OCLC. The following questions combined with the links on the previous pages should help you to consider ways that you might get more out of your OCLC services.
- Do you know which sort of OCLC service you are using currently?
- Do you know how your patrons are interacting with interlibrary loan?
- What steps might improve your results in WorldCat?
- What steps might improve your experience with it as library staff?
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