WorldShare Management Services: Collection Manager

Automatic Collection Loading (also called Automatic Holdings Feeds)

What is automatic collection loading?

For some collections, OCLC and your provider work together to automatically add and keep up-to-date your holdings in your KB. All you need to do is initiate the request as shown in Providers and Contacts for Setting up Automatic Collection Loading.

You can create a local knowledge base (KB) collection for items that are not represented in the WorldCat knowledge base. A local collection can be for electronic or print items. You can make the collection visible to only your library users or submit it to OCLC as a global collection for any library using the WorldShare KB to use.

Some reasons why you might want to create a local KB collection are:

• The vendor and their titles are not represented in the global KB because the vendor does not have a relationship with OCLC
• You want your print journals with your holdings to be found in Discovery
• You have a new title from a vendor that has not been added to the KB yet
• You want to create a consortial collection of titles to share with the rest of the consortium