Our Space Jay Jordan President and CEO OCLC Shanghai Library 16 June 2008
trends and events in the information industry OUR space
The 200 most successful web sites
OCLC Programs and Research: Agenda supporting new modes of research, teaching and learning managing the collective collection renovating descriptive and organizing practices modeling new service infrastructures architecture and standards measurement and behaviors
Membership Reports/Studies 84% use search engines to begin an information search 2% begin an information search on a library Web site 90% are satisfied with search engines libraries = books Internet’s readers are becoming its authors U.S. library Web site usage—20% (down from 30% in 2005) 25% of general public and 50% of college students participate in social sites
OUR space the OCLC cooperative
60,457 libraries in 112 countries 1,148 48, ,697 3,630 1, The OCLC Cooperative
2000—Strategic Plan Extend the cooperative Introduce new services Transform WorldCat Build new technological platform Weave libraries into the Web
Transforming WorldCat MARC, Dublin Core, IFLA FRBR, LDAP, EAD, SOAP, XML, OAI-PMH, SRU Full Text Open URL New Contributors Graphics, Sound & Motion Unicode
New Technological Platform WorldCat script support: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil, Thai Connexion interfaces: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish FirstSearch interfaces: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish QuestionPoint: 25 languages
1999CatExpress 2000Illiad PAIS 2002CONTENTdm Connexion NetLibrary QuestionPoint 2003WebJunction LIBPAC-V.3 Web 2004Group Services 24x7 2005WorldCat Collection Analysis Open WorldCat 2006WorldCat.org eSerials Holdings WorldCat Selection 2007WorldCat Registry OCLC Digital Repository Terminologies 2008EZproxy WorldCat Local New services since 1998
Harvest Metadata from Digital Content Management Systems Metadata Content management server The Web End users retrieve the information they need
CONTENTdm
Digital Archive
eBooks 170,000 titles 6,500 eAudiobooks 450 publishers
WorldCat Collection Analysis Analyze usage data ILL borrows, loans Circulation transactions, ratios Authoritative list comparisons Choice—Outstanding Academic Titles Library Journal School Library Journal Doody’s Core Medical Titles
WorldCat Registry
QuestionPoint Jointly developed by Library of Congress & OCLC in ,900 libraries 23 countries 3 millionth question handled—Nov ,000 Q&A records in Global Knowledge Base
OCLC Strategy: Build Web scale for libraries Provide a combination of local, group and global nodes that work together seamlessly and symbiotically Increase access to the world’s information and reduce institutional costs of providing that access Group Local Global
WorldCat at April 1, mBooks 4.1mSerials 3.1mVisual materials 1.5mMaps 100 million records 1.14 billion holdings 3.1mSound recordings 2.2mScores.7mComputer files
WorldCat at April 1, m 18.7m 9.3m 4.7m fy2008 fy2007 fy2006 fy million records!
Top 10 Original Catalogers Year ended June 30, 2007 Godfrey Memorial Library University of Hong Kong South Asia Union Catalog Project Center for Research Libraries Florence Griswold Museum Northwestern University New York Public Library Research Library Newberry Library University of California, Berkeley Chinese University of Hong Kong 135,830 85,157 45,457 44,012 38,967 24,357 17,895 16,624 16,588 13,873
National files pending for WorldCat ARLICON (Russia) Bavarian State Library Bibliothèque nationale de France Bibliothek Alexandrina (Egypt) Bibliothekszentrum Baden Wurtemburg (Germany) Bibliothesverbund Bayern (Germany) British Library CBUC (Spain) Danish National Library CURL (UK) GBV (Germany) HBZ Verbund (Germany) HeBIS (Germany) IZUM (Slovenia) Jewish National and University Library Lebanese American University Libraries and Archives Canada
National files pending for WorldCat National Library of Australia National Library of China National Library of Finland National Library of Iceland National Library of New Zealand National Library of Russia National Library of Scotland National Library of Slovenia National Library of Sweden National Central Library, Taiwan National Library of Wales OBV (Germany) Qatar University Russian State Library Swiss National Library The Combined Regions (UK) VLACC (Belgium) Zayed University Consortium (UAE)
Total Records English French German Spanish Japanese Russian Chinese Italian Latin Portuguese Dutch Hebrew 1998: 37.5m records 23.9 m 2.3 m 2.2 m 1.6 m.8 m.7 m.3 m.2 m 2007: 86.0m records 45.3 m 5.3 m 9.8 m 3.3 m 1.8 m 1.5 m 2.0 m 1.4 m 1.0 m.8 m 2.5 m.5 m % ¼ % Percentage of Non-English Records Multilingual WorldCat
20 million article-level records 20,000 Inside Serials—articles from 20,000 journals 57 million TOTAL ARTICLE-LEVEL RECORDS NOW IN WORLDCAT.ORG British Library and WorldCat.org
FLYWHEEL
OCLC Strategy: Build Web scale for libraries Next Generation Cataloging Pilot WorldCat.org WorldCat Local Group Local Global
Next Generation Cataloging Services Pilot Capture ONIX metadata from publishers and vendors upstream Academic and public libraries Publishers and vendors
WorldCat.org
Referrals from partner sites to Open WorldCat landing page Click-throughs from Open WorldCat to library services 2005/ / m 1.9 m m 7.6 m
WorldCat.org: current statistics 2.5 million 7 million 750,000 users/month records/month clickthroughs
WorldCat Identities
WorldCat Lists
WorldCat: Facebook Widget
WorldCat API developers from cataloging institutions in North America and Europe Search of WorldCat and retrieval of holdings Developers build applications that will drive people back to OCLC services
WorldCat Local Pilot Faceted browse Evaluative content FRBRized results Citation formatting Relevancy Ranking Customized local view Interoperates with local systems for circulation, resource sharing, resolution to full text
WorldCat Local uwashington.worldcat.org
1 University of Washington 2 Summit 3 WorldCat Holdings: Local, Group, Global
WorldCat Local and Resource Sharing University of Washington July-Dec. 2006/ % increase in ILL requests via WorldCat 70% increase in borrowing within Summit consortium
Pilot Partners University of Washington Peninsula Library System, California 34 libraries State of Illinois 13 libraries The Ohio State University University of California System Melvyl pilot Already Signed Up! Cornell University University of Delaware University of Hong Kong University of Maryland System University of Texas at Austin Already Activated! State Library of Ohio WorldCat Local Pilots and Beyond
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OCLC Governance
Our Expanding Global Cooperative 1979first non-U.S. participant 1989participants in 39 countries 1990First non-U.S. Members Council delegate 1993first non-U.S. Board member 1999participants in 86 countries 2006participants in 109 countries first non-U.S. Members Council President 2007first MC meeting outside U.S.
Since ,000 3, million 668 million participating libraries participants outside U.S. participant countries WorldCat records WorldCat holdings ,000 11, million 1.2 billion
OCLC: 26 offices in 10 countries Australia: Footscray, Victoria Canada: Calgary, Alberta Chambly, Quebec Winnipeg, Manitoba China: Beijing France: Asnières sur Seine Germany: Berlin Bonn Oberhaching United States: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Blackwood, New Jersey Bloomfield, New Jersey Boulder, Colorado Dublin, Ohio Lacey, Washington Ontario, California Overland Park, Kansas San Mateo, California Seattle, Washington Washington, D.C. Mexico: Mexico City Netherlands: Leiden Switzerland: Basel United Kingdom: Birmingham Sheffield St. Andrews
China and OCLC 1986OCLC CJK cataloging system 1996OCLC service center at Tsinghua University 2004CALIS provides access to NetLibrary eBooks 2008National Library of China to load records into WorldCat
OCLC Beijing Office opens July 20, 2007
Beijing Office
4 th China-U.S. Library Conference
OCLC Members Council Tony Ferguson University of Hong Kong Libraries Tony Ferguson University of Hong Kong Libraries
Our Space: the OCLC cooperative More collaboration More libraries More archives, museums More countries More Web scale More innovation Group Local Global
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