Birmingham January 2008 Vivien Cook Regional Account Manager OCLC OCLC a worldwide library cooperative New Services and Future Directions

OCLC - A bit of History 41 year old, not-for profit library service and research organisation Provides cataloguing, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and web services Co-operative of 60,000 libraries in 112 countries Member libraries and OCLC have created and maintain WorldCat, the largest & richest online resource for discovery and delivery of library materials

OCLC Presence and Activities outside the U.S. First European office opened 1981 – UK based to serve EMEA 2000 – OCLC acquired 60% shares of PICA Mid/late 2000 acquired SISIS (Germany) and FDI (UK) 2007 – OCLC acquired remaining shares of OCLC PICA 2008 – one name, one visual brand from ALL offices to reflect “a global enterprise with a unified strategy to serve libraries worldwide.”

Extending WorldCat European records & holdings 2006 – 2007 OCLC focussed efforts to encourage the batchload of European records and holdings from: Finnish National Bibliography Dutch Central Catalogue National Union Catalogue of Poland German National Bibliography GBV German consortium Bavarian State Library

National Library of Sweden New Bulgaria University American University Bulgaria Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Ongoing loads from the National Library of the Czech Republic Ongoing loads from the National Library of Education Extending WorldCat European records & holdings

Collectively created and maintained by 9,000+ libraries. 86,000,000 records (Fiscal Yr 07: 18.7 million new records added) 1,143,000 holdings 9.8 million inter library loan transactions in FY million reference searches in FY07 Interesting Fact: Every 2 seconds a member library record is added WorldCat Statistics

Reference & Discovery Metadata and Cataloguing Resource Sharing & Delivery Collection Management Web Exposure WorldCat as the Foundation Stone Digital objects metadata now automatically transferred to WorldCat from CONTENTdm

OCLC Metadata & Cataloguing Options Connexion – web and client interfaces CatExpress – web-based user-friendly interface Z39.50 Client – LMS driven WorldCat Cataloguing partners – MARC records for e-resources WorldCat Selection – streamline Acquisitions practice Batchload – for MANY services…… Next generation Cataloguing Pilot – Get records earlier in the chain

Resource & Delivery OCLC ILL – well established in Denmark UnityUK – Physical UK union catalogue and resource sharing solution VDX – Virtual Document Delivery solution – Oresund Consortium ILLIAD – Resource sharing software popular in the U.S. A suitable solution for all.

Reference, Discovery & Web exposure The common theme is “finding”… FirstSearch – online reference resource QuestionPoint – virtual reference solution currently evaluated by Roskilde University OpenWorldCat – First pilot project to expose Library holdings in the web space WorldCat.org - Beta program placing the entire WorldCat database on the web WorldCat Local - A localised version of WorldCat bringing your holdings to the fore. Portal solution - ZPortal

OpenWorldCat – relevancy on the web The Open WorldCat program makes records of library-owned materials in OCLC's WorldCat database available to Web users on popular Internet search, bibliographic and bookselling sites, including Google, Yahoo! Search and Windows Live Academic. Links to content in library collections—books, videos, serials, digital images and many other formats—appear alongside links to traditional Web content.WorldCatsearch, bibliographic and bookselling sites The result: WorldCat-participating libraries are more visible on the Web, and their collections are more accessible from the sites where many people start their search for information. Libraries get greater exposure to information-seekers and increased use of their online catalog, electronic content and other Web-based services.

Open WorldCat – relevancy on the web How Open WorldCat works 1.Librarie s contribu te and load holdings in WorldCa t 2. OCLC manages program & shared infrastructure for members 3. Partners ingest metadata/link 4. Users discover “Find in a Library” links and clicks to library 5. Libraries provide service

Our destination site for public searching of the entire WorldCat database Released August 2006 in beta form, WorldCat.org continues OCLC's efforts—begun with the Open WorldCat program—to make library resources more visible to Web users, and to increase awareness of libraries as a primary source of reliable information and helpful personal assistance. Where Open WorldCat inserts "Find in a Library" results within regular search engine results, WorldCat.org provides a permanent destination page and search box that lets a broader range of people discover the riches of library-held materials catalogued in the WorldCat database.WorldCat.orgOpen WorldCat WorldCat.org

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WorldCat Indentities

WorldCat Registry

WorldCat Collection Management Enables libraries to: Analyse collection age & subject content Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness Analyze group collections for uniqueness and overlap for cooperative collection development Based on OCLC Conspectus Supports LC, Dewey, NLM classification systems Provide information on... Subject, Publication date, Language, Format, Audience level Online access via FirstSearch Title-level information from WorldCat Tab-delimited and exportable Graphs are available

Group Analysis View

Drilldown to Divisions

Drilldown to Categories in Business

Pre-1900 Economic Theory – 29 Titles

Graph View by Publication Date

Overlap View

Uniqueness View - Library Level

Change Analysis – Column Values Languages

Limit Analysis Screen

Individual Analysis View

Peer Group Creation

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