Respected all, The Library in University of Delaware plans to adopt OCLC WorldShare Management Services. Some 33 libraries have already started using the service since its launch in July 2011. Another 120 libraries have consented to use the service and the list is getting bigger every day. The first academic research library in the list is certainly the University of Delaware Lib which is also the first member of the 126-library Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to implement WorldShare. The current system delivers and promises to handle metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, discovery, license management and workflow improvements by 2013. According to Gregg A. Silvis, assistant director for Library Computing Systems at UD, the new system potentially reduces the unnecessary efforts by the current infrastructure of huge duplications. With WMS, effective centralization of works would be possible and the library staff can be freed up for other more pressing priorities. The said service could be proved to be of much use as Research libraries usually have more complex collections and it is necessary to deal these complexities with precision. Madhuryamay Das B.Tech (Univ. of Tech, WB), Masters (IIT-Kharagpur), MS-LIS (DRTC, ISI-Bangalore) (For regular blogging and most recent updates in LIS, please visit my blog at http://lis-digest.blogspot.in/) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.