Phillips Library is moving to OCLC WorldShare.

In June, Phillips Library will change the way we catalog and maintain inventory records for our books and digital resources.  We recently began a transition that leverages our membership in OCLC by taking advantage of the their new system called WorldShare Management.

OCLC is the largest non-profit library organization in the world. Since 1967, they have been committed to economies that come from shared library resources.  The greatest immediate benefit of this move for our students and faculty will be a simplified catalog search that will produce easy to understand results incorporating all of our resources.

OCLC’s WorldShare has many long-term benefits such as:

• stable pricing not driven by a corporate profit motive,
• reduced annual costs compared to our current Voyager system, and
• shared expertise in developing new applications on an entirely new system platform.

Fr. Elias Yelovich has begun the complicated work required to move this project along in a short time-line.  In early June we will test the new system before we unplug the old Voyager catalog.  Although most of you will not notice the effects of this change until next fall, we will keep you posted on the details as they develop.