About Us
Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs. More than 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories around the world have used OCLC services for cataloguing, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services. OCLC and its worldwide member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, making it the world’s largest and richest database of bibliographic information. OCLC publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the most widely used library classification system in the world. OCLC is headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, USA and has over 1200 employees worldwide with 22 based in the Melbourne office.
Product(s) Description
The following products are provided to public libraries in Australia and New Zealand:
OCLC WorldShare Management Services provide a Web-based environment that streamlines cataloguing, acquisitions, license management and circulation, and offer a next-gen discovery tool for library users. Both replacing and standing apart from traditional ILS systems, OCLC WorldShare Management 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. WorldCat Local is a webscale discovery solution that delivers single-search-box access to more than 982 million items from your library and the world's library collections. CONTENTdm helps you to make your digital collections available on the Web, more quickly and easily. No matter the format—local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries or audio/video—CONTENTdm can handle the storage, management and delivery of your collections to users across the Web. VDX is a document delivery and interlending management system that fully automates the requesting and supply of books and journal articles. It meets the needs of consortia that require greater local control of resource sharing among their members by offering tight integration with disparate local library systems. VDX is used by the public library networks in Victoria and Western Australia as well as Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD).
OCLC WorldShare Management Services provide a Web-based environment that streamlines cataloguing, acquisitions, license management and circulation, and offer a next-gen discovery tool for library users. Both replacing and standing apart from traditional ILS systems, OCLC WorldShare Management 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. WorldCat Local is a webscale discovery solution that delivers single-search-box access to more than 982 million items from your library and the world's library collections. CONTENTdm helps you to make your digital collections available on the Web, more quickly and easily. No matter the format—local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries or audio/video—CONTENTdm can handle the storage, management and delivery of your collections to users across the Web. VDX is a document delivery and interlending management system that fully automates the requesting and supply of books and journal articles. It meets the needs of consortia that require greater local control of resource sharing among their members by offering tight integration with disparate local library systems. VDX is used by the public library networks in Victoria and Western Australia as well as Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD).
Web Address
Web Link 1
Web Link 2
Address Line 1
Level 8, 310 King Street
Town/Suburb
Melbourne
Postcode
3000
State
Victoria
Phone
0399290802
Other Phone / Mobile
0421018229
Fax
0399290801
Email
chris.thewlis@oclc.org
Contact Name 1
Chris Thewlis
Contact Name 2
Angus Cook