OLIB
OLIB is a highly configurable integrated library system that enables you to customise all areas of library management to reflect your local requirements.
We're discontinuing OLIB on 31 December 2023.
OCLC support and OCLC support documentation updates will end on 31 December 2023. The support documentation will remain on help.oclc.org until 31 December 2024, so we encourage you to export any useful pages before then.
To export a support page as a PDF:
- Click the Export page as PDF button () on the page you want to export. The page opens as a PDF file in a new tab.
- From the PDF file tab, click the Download button (). The Save As dialog opens on your computer.
- From the Save As dialog:
- (Optional) Rename the file. By default, the page name will be the file name.
- Select a location on your computer and then click Save.
- Get started
- Get started with OLIB Web
- Users
- Manage users and staff users in OLIB
- Catalogue
- Manage catalogue records in OLIB
- Library locations
- Manage library locations in OLIB
- Folio
- Discover OPAC searching and how to configure Folio end user features using OLIB Web.
- Get started with Folio
- Library search
- Welcome screen
- Menu bar
- General settings
- Banner graphic
- Brief and full displays
- Circulation transaction history
- Citations
- Configuration blocks list
- Copies availability display
- Delimited OPAC and SSI
- Enable end user help
- Enable end user tags
- Enable enquiry management
- Enable purchase suggestions
- Facet sidebar
- Folio lists
- Generate a search Qwidget for Folio
- Journals display
- Links to e-resources
- Links to WorldCat
- Link to catalogue enrichment data
- Media type icons
- Permalinks
- Quick launch searches
- Ratings and reviews
- Reservations
- Saved searches
- Search configuration
- Self-registration
- Self issue, return and renewals
- Set / reset with temporary password
- Set password directly
- Title details display
- Title hitlist display
- User account details
- Alerts
- Create alert messages for users and staff in OLIB
- System management
- Configure and manage system wide settings in OLIB
- Reports
- Learn about reporting in OLIB.
- Data import and export
- Import or export your data from OLIB using MARC and other formats
- User guides
- Discover how to use new OLIB features, including new service pack features.
- OLIB to WMS migration
- Discover how we manage migrating from your OLIB system to WorldShare Management Services.
- Release Notes
- Find OLIB release notes and key features. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- Post Service Pack 15 Release Notes
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 15 Key Features and Release Notes
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 14 Key Features and Release Notes
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 13 Key Features
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 13 Release Notes
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 12 Key Features
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 12 Release Notes
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 11 Key Features
- OLIB 9 Service Pack 11 Release Notes
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- A new staff member's account is slow and not performing as others do?
- A patron is unable to request an online reservation
- A user's account barcode, transaction history and items on loan has disappeared
- A user does not have full cataloging options despite having an appropriate user category
- Can deleted titles/users be recovered?
- Does OLIB support RDA Cataloguing rules?
- Do I need to cancel email notices in my test system? [Hosted OLIB]
- Featured OLIB Troubleshooting articles
- Following an upgrade to OLIB 9.0 Service Pack 12, users are not receiving alerts for available reservations or newly checked in serial issues
- How can I add a new attribute to the Refine Search dialog?
- How can I add our own images to WebView's Welcome Page?
- How can I attach an email list to a SDI alert?
- How can I filter borrower traps by trap message?
- How do I change my name in OLIB Web?
- How do I configure Self-registration?
- How do I delete a user with enquiries attached?
- How do I display User Expiry Date in the user details screen of OLIB Folio?
- How do I export MARC records to OVID?
- How do I find out my OLIB username/password?
- How do I insert line breaks in the privacy policy hover text without it being in double line spacing?
- How do I renew all items on loan to a group of users with minimum checks?
- How do I search for serial issue titles?
- How do I set up a System Administrator account on OLIB if the current System Administrator has left?
- How do I subscribe to the OLIB users' mailing list?
- How do I transfer a report from my Test system to Live?
- How do I unlock a user record? [Hosted OLIB]
- How do I view all items with a specific copy category?
- How to sign in to OLIB
- I'm creating a configurable user import. What OLSFT tag should I use to map the User's Date of Birth?
- If you delete expired users using the “Users For Auto-Deletion” folder, will the copies on loan for that user also be deleted? And if it was the last copy of the title, will the title also be deleted?
- I am no longer able to attach files to my item records
- I am unable to return a book after cancelling a reservation
- I cannot find the configurable privacy policy statements - where are these located?
- I have added a new attribute to the keyword search index however it is not being used in a keyword search
- I have deleted a sheet by accident
- I have just tried to log in to OLIB WebView and received an account expired error message
- I have made changes to my MARC format. How do I apply this change to my existing records?
- My OLIB export to CONTENTdm is not working
- My XML export is not displaying correctly
- Setting default sorting for indexes
- Some of our student record files have not imported into OLIB
- Staff accounts are unable to see Helpdesk Online links
- The Username and Password fields are populating with my login credentials when I try to create a new user
- What is the taxonomy that is used in OLIB?
- When I issue a loan I get the message 'User is banned from this copy category.'
- Where can I find the latest version of the OLIB schema? [SP13+]
- Why am I receiving several emails per hour for my reports?
- Why are patrons not receiving their overdue emails?
- Why are some changes made to title records not visible in the audit trail?
- OLIB training
- Find training on OLIB.