WorldShare Management Services

OCLC Incorporated lists WorldShare Management Services on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status FedRAMP Certified, at LI-SaaS impact, on the Agency path under the Rev5 process. Package FR1734750951, read from the marketplace feed as of September 3, 2026.

FedRAMP CertifiedRev5Agency path

Section A. Register entry

What the marketplace records

FedRAMP package ID: FR1734750951
Cloud service provider: OCLC Incorporated
Certification status: FedRAMP Certified
Impact level: LI-SaaS
Certification class: Class B (Low)
Authorization path: Agency
Certification type: Rev5
Marketplace phase: Ongoing Certification
Deployment model: Public Cloud
Register snapshot: September 3, 2026
Service model: SaaS
Independent assessor: Schellman Compliance, LLC
Sponsoring agency: United States Census Bureau
Certification date: July 1, 2020
Status date: July 1, 2020
Annual assessment: June 18, 2011
Agency authorizations: 8
Recorded reuses: 7
Business categories: Content Management System (CMS), Data Management
Milestones on record: 3

The marketplace carries WorldShare Management Services under package FR1734750951 with 20 recorded fields. Its certification date is July 1, 2020. Schellman Compliance, LLC is named as the independent assessor, with an annual assessment date of June 18, 2011. United States Census Bureau is recorded as the sponsoring agency. 8 agencies are listed as having authorized it, among them Department of Labor, Department of State, Federal Trade Commission and 5 more, and the feed records 7 reuses of the package. It is delivered as SaaS on a public cloud, filed under 2 business categories including Content Management System (CMS) and Data Management.

Section B. Milestones

3 entries in the marketplace event log

Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.

Event logFR1734750951

Date	Category	Recorded
July 1, 2020	Status Change	Status changed from PMO Review to FedRAMP Certified
June 18, 2020	Status Change	Status changed from Agency Review to FedRAMP In Process
January 28, 2020	Status Change	Status set to Agency Authorization In Process

Section C. Cost context

What reaching this stage costs

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Cost context

No range published for this level

This site does not publish a separate budget range for LI-SaaS, so no figure is quoted here. The impact level reference sets out how the tailored low baseline differs from Low.

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Path

Agency Authorization is the route for 578 of the offerings on the marketplace. Our cost pages put it at $800,000 to $2,000,000 over 12 to 18 months for Moderate. Agency authorization cost

Assessment and monitoring

An annual assessment date of June 18, 2011 is on the record, and that assessment recurs for as long as the package stays listed. Annual assessment cost / continuous monitoring cost

Section E. Agencies on the record

8 agencies listed against this package

As published on the marketplace. An agency named here has issued its own authorization to operate; FedRAMP does not issue ATOs itself.

Department of Labor
Department of State
Federal Trade Commission
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Other Federal Entity
Savannah River National Lab
United States Census Bureau
United States Geological Survey

Section G. Nearest entries on the register

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Section H. Description

As published on the marketplace

The provider's own description of the service, reproduced from the FedRAMP feed without edits.

OCLC is a nonprofit global library organization. Through OCLC, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS), a cloud-based library services platform. With WorldCat as its foundation, WMS allows library staff to draw on the collaborative data and work of libraries worldwide for more efficient workflows, and to better manage and access resources in all formats. WMS offers all the applications needed to manage a library, including acquisitions, circulation, resource sharing, metadata and electronic resource management. WMS also offers analytics, including custom reports and visualizations, and a discovery service for library users. Products included in the WorldShare platform: * Library management systems: Worldshare Acquisitions, Worldshare Circulation, Worldshare Report Designer, EZproxy * Cataloging/metadata services: Worldshare Collection Manager, Worldshare Record Manager, Worldshare Knowledgebase. * Resource sharing services: WorldShare ILL and Tipasa. * Discovery services: WorldCat Discovery * Digital collection management services: CONTENTdm v2

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Provenance and independence

Source: the FedRAMP Marketplace product feed, produced by the General Services Administration. The feed's own last-change stamp is September 3, 2026; this copy was taken on September 5, 2026.

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