WorldShare Circulation
WorldShare Circulation facilitates requesting, loaning, and processing of physical items to eligible patrons and affiliated institutions.
- Get started
- Get started with WorldShare Circulation.
- OCLC Service Configuration - WMS Circulation
- Administrative settings for WorldShare Circulation are in OCLC Service Configuration. In OCLC Service Configuration > WMS Circulation, you can set your circulation policies.
- Check out
- Discover how to check out materials.
- Check in
- Discover how to check in materials.
- Patron management
- In Circulation, discover how to research patron accounts to assist in circulation activity, create new patrons, and work with bills and fines.
- Holds management
- Discover how to place and delete holds from bibliographic records, item records, and from patron accounts.
- Item management
- Discover procedures for tasks that you may perform (e.g., look up items, edit items, add temporary items, etc.) in order to maintain item records related to circulation activities
- My Labels
- Learn how to create spine labels from information in an MARC 21 WorldCat bibliographic record or a local holdings records. Your list of labels is only viewable by you and not by other users in your institution.
- Room reservations
- Use the Room Scheduling feature to manage the rooms in your library and create events (reservations) for patrons.
- Scheduled Jobs
- Find information about using the WMS Patron System Bill Connector to create and manage your library's bill export jobs to share information about patron fees and fines with systems outside of WMS.
- My Account
- Learn how library users can access their accounts to renew items, remove and edit holds, and view fines in WorldCat Discovery.
- Group aware for consortia
- Group aware is for consortia and library groups that use WorldShare Management Services. Group aware links individual institutions through their WorldShare instances to share data among the group. It allows for integrated circulation functions among your group while maintaining policies, items, and patrons specific to your individual institution.
- Integrations with WorldShare Circulation
- Learn how to integrate WorldShare Circulation with other products and services.
- WMS Z39.50
- Find information about using WMS Z39.50 searching.
- Reference
- Additional resources for WorldShare Circulation users.
- WorldShare Circulation release notes and known issues
- Find WorldShare Circulation release notes and known issues. Release notes are documents that contain information about new product features and enhancements as installed in scheduled releases.
- WorldShare Circulation training
- Find training on WorldShare Circulation here.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Add Call Number in Email Notifications
- Are my notifications sent according to how I set them in Service Configuration, or at the top of the hour/the next morning?
- Are there restrictions on barcodes in WMS?
- Authentication error when trying to upload offline circulation transactions
- A patron received a recall notification for an item, but the item was never recalled.
- OCLC Community Center: WorldShare Circulation community
- Find more information about the Community Center. Current Circulation product users may join the OCLC Community Center to connect with peers and OCLC staff on product workflows, attend webinars, and provide feedback on the product.