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Loughborough University selects OCLC's WorldShare Management Services to support students and research. OCLC September 30, 2026 Sheffield, UK - 29 September 2026. Loughborough University has selected OCLC's WorldShare Management Services as its new library services platform to support a superior student experience, advance research, and provide efficient, reliable access to its wide range of library content. Loughborough is among the UK's leading universities, with an international reputation for research, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines. WorldShare Management Services (WMS) is the library services platform that helps staff connect students and faculty to the print and electronic resources they need to achieve their goals. A robust, effective system. "We selected WMS as a robust, effective system to support Loughborough's excellent student experience and research ambitions," said Helen Young, Deputy Director of Library Services at Loughborough University. "Having all our content resources fully integrated within a supplier-agnostic system will enable our users to access them quickly, reliably, and efficiently, along with smoothing our internal business processes. We are looking forward to working with OCLC's highly experienced and supportive staff on our implementation and are delighted to be joining the UK and global WMS communities." Built with WorldCat as its foundation. WMS is a complete, cloud-based library services platform that brings together core library management workflows, including acquisitions, circulation, metadata management, analytics, and discovery. Built on OCLC's cooperative network and shared data, WMS helps libraries streamline operations, reduce the need for locally maintained infrastructure, and improve the discoverability of their collections. Growing, global library community. "We are delighted to welcome Loughborough University to the growing WMS community in the UK and around the world," said Eric van Lubeek, Managing Director, EMEA & APAC, OCLC. "WMS is a great fit for Loughborough. It provides an integrated, flexible approach to managing library resources, while giving students and researchers access to the content they need." About WorldShare Management Services. WMS is a cloud-based, integrated library management platform that connects local operations to a shared global data network with WorldCat as its foundation. The system supports: * Acquisitions * Cataloging and Metadata * Circulation * Discovery * Interlibrary loan * License management About OCLC. OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation. Through OCLC, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through OCLC's WorldShare, a complete set of library management applications and services built on an open, cloud-based platform. It is through collaboration and sharing of the world's collected knowledge that libraries can help people find answers they need to solve problems. Together as OCLC, member libraries, staff, and partners make breakthroughs possible. Release details.

AI Zeitgeist, Earth's changelog, The Great Tree Beekeeping Library, more: Wednesday afternoon ResearchBuzz, september 23, 2026. NEW RESOURCES Came in over the transom: AI Zeitgeist. "The same question can produce a different view of the world after a model update. We asked seven GPT releases 18 questions about power, global threats and the decade ahead, collecting 15,120 answers. Explore where their answers agree, where they change direction, and which differences hold when we ask again." Dexerto: New website gives Earth its own video game-style patch notes. "It showcases unlocked features, added discoveries, updates like new satellites or restocked inventories, and even nerfs, highlighting high energy costs and health disasters like pandemics or positive things for humans like the recent elimination of Trachoma in Southeast Asia. The site itself is fairly new, with the developer detailing that they wanted to focus on the positive changes the world is making, while also tackling any doomscrolling, allowing users to see any large developments in the world, and when they happen, alongside sources and more details on the 'patch'." Nasa Niva: Belarus Creates Large Digital Library on Tree Beekeeping. "Public access has opened in Belarus to 'The Great Tree Beekeeping Library' - a digital research corpus dedicated to the history and culture of tree beekeeping... The project's analytical card index contains about 1200 pages and more than 334 thousand words. More than a thousand other found sources are awaiting processing. The materials are presented in Belarusian, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and English." TWEAKS AND UPDATES PR Newswire: OCLC's new CONTENTdm helps libraries and other institutions expand the reach of unique collections (PRESS RELEASE). "OCLC has introduced a new version of the CONTENTdm digital collection management platform that empowers libraries, archives, and museums to make their unique digital collections more visible, accessible, and connected." New York Times: Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds. "The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence in November's midterm elections, using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter." NiemanReports: The YouTuber Shaking Up Brazil's Powerful Sports Media. "For more than half a century, Brazil's TV Globo was the undisputed home of soccer in a nation obsessed with it. That dominance is now being tested by Casimiro Miguel, known as 'Cazé' - a 32-year-old journalism school dropout who has built a massive online following and shaken up the Brazilian sports broadcasting landscape." The Verge: Can you forget how you feel about Meta?. no. "For two decades, Meta's products have been at the center of what people do online. But Meta now finds itself besieged on all sides. Lawsuits have piled up as regulators turn on social media. A push into smart glasses has triggered a mountain of negative press and backlash - including the pejorative moniker 'pervert glasses.' The company remains firmly behind in the AI race. Public perception of Zuckerberg himself has curdled. Yet Meta is far from finished." SECURITY & LEGAL Reuters: Cambodia no 'safe haven' for scams, prime minister tells anti-fraud summit. "Cambodia's prime minister said the country would not be a haven for transnational scam syndicates as he opened a global conference on cyberfraud on Wednesday, where the government is keen to showcase its crackdown on the multibillion-dollar scam industry." CBS 4 Local: High profile hacking group claims it hacked the FBI and stole data on employees. "A digital extortion group called 'ShinyHunters' said that it breached the FBI and stole data on many employees. A representative of the group called ShinyHunters told a media outlet called 404 Media that the information on the FBI employees included their phone numbers, names and addresses." OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL Gizmodo: Can You Make Musical Instruments With Reclaimed Junk? Ask This Guy. "For most of his life, Nicolas Bras has had music stuck in his head. While some earworms are derived from TV jingles and top-40 hits, the instruments in Bras' mind couldn't be replicated - because they didn't exist. Over the last decade and a half, Bras has created unorthodox instruments from scrap metal, pallet wood, pipes, and 3D-printed parts to bring the music in his head to life." Good afternoon, Internet... This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren't! Help me afford new socks and fancier bean stew by supporting ResearchBuzz on Patreon. Not interested in commitment? Perhaps you'd buy me an iced tea. Don't have any money but still want to support? I know how that feels. Share this newsletter or tell a friend about it. I live at Calishat. See my other nonsense at SearchTweaks, RSS Gizmos, Local Search America, WikiTwister, and MiniGladys.