As the weather starts to stabilize a bit hopefully our patrons will find some time for movie nights, since our May is packed with themed shelves: Jewish Heritage Month: Doing Jewish: A Story from Ghana An in-depth look at the residents of a small c...
Welcome to the folks who are coming to OCLC’s Community Center for the first time in response to our latest email invitations! Beyond serving as an easy reference for our monthly rotation of thematic shelves, I’m hoping that this Title Recommendatio...
If you didn’t see the announcement last month, CloudLibrary Video is expanding to Australia and New Zealand! So as an introduction to any new librarians who may be checking out these recommendation pages in Community Center for the first time, my goa...
We’re containing multitudes this month: perseverance, accomplishment, and love. As much of the US (including myself) digs out from the wide-ranging winter storm, our themes (alongside some representative titles we recommend) for February are: Black ...
Hope everyone had a great holidays - it’s 2026 and we’ve got some big things lined up for this year, so be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Bluesky so you don’t miss out! Our shelves for January are: Lifelong Learning: Predictably Irrat...
As always when some big holidays are coming up, we keep an eye towards programming the collection for every situation – something for family get-togethers, background music in the kitchen, or cozy Christmas movie nights. For December, our theme shelv...
Daylight savings means an extra hour of ambiance in the TV room, as far as I’m concerned. As a reminder for anyone near the Delmarva peninsula, I’ll be attending the Rehoboth Beach International Film Festival this upcoming weekend as a member of the ...
We’re officially into fall and I don’t know about anyone else but, personally, that means finally starting to dig in to the seasonal comfort movies. I suspect I'm not alone - so beyond the thematic collections every month, you’ll also find the shelv...
Hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day weekend! One of my favorite things about curating the content for this platform is when a new theme or video type begins to take hold with our users and find its audience, and I’m glad to say that I logged on toda...
A warm welcome to all our librarians who may be checking out Community Center for the first time after the launch of our newly revamped marketing toolkit. This monthly newsletter is meant to showcase some of the video titles that we’re featuring as w...
For July’s programming, I wanted to bring in the video-equivalent of beach reads, so we’re running a romance-heavy selection, which means pulling from our Harlequin adaptations, our Hallmark Channel classics, and everything in between. All of these ...
Everyone has their own unique summer viewing habits: you either have no time at all, want to watch something light between various trips and the chaos of scheduling, or you finally have time to sit and watch those movies or series you’ve been meaning...
The weather’s finally starting to improve, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t make time for movie nights. For May, our monthly themes lead off with three shelves that will run the full month: Jewish Heritage Month: Famous Nathan A Coney Island-...
It’s officially Spring, and it’s officially been a year since the OCLC acquisition of CloudLibrary. Which means we’re back up to full speed again with our rotation of programming – as shown by the success of our Film of the Month selection that we st...
For March I thought that not only would we showcase the three thematic shelves for the month, but also introduce a new Film of the Month selection. You can be assured that these titles will all have public performance rights and be ready to showcase ...
Welcome to our now officially launched Community Center page for video!A bit about the purpose of these newsletter posts for anyone encountering them for the first time (or those who may remember them before our acquisition by OCLC):At the beginning ...
2025 will mark the first full year of CloudLibrary Video with OCLC, and we couldn’t be more excited about what the future holds! A fresh rotation of monthly video themes, a relaunch of our newly streamlined marketing initiatives, and of course this ...
It’s been an eventful 2024 for cloudLibrary as we finish a large chunk of the technical migrations checklist around our move to OCLC. And it’s hard not to keep the themes of rest and renewal in mind as we look ahead to a new year that can now be ful...
We’re officially back! After our October soft launch to make sure that all the technological pieces were in place, the video newsletter is back in action. Since being acquired by OCLC this past April, myself and the rest of the cloudLibrary team hav...
Hi all, It’s been a long time! The last newsletter that went out was just before we found out that the cloudLibrary app was being acquired by OCLC (and that the entire team would be coming along), and it’s been a bit of a whirlwind ever since - whi...
