Sessieronde: WorldCat Janet Lees OCLC PICA

2 Agenda WorldCat overview European library holdings in WorldCat OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org Future Directions Some fun things to look at

3 WorldCat Overview OCLC Union Catalog(ue) – global scope but not global coverage. US holdings dominate. 68 million records, 1 billion holdings All types of materials – print, maps, visual, electronic, serials, all date ranges All languages – Unicode support includes non- roman scripts Platform for cataloguing, resource sharing, reference, collection analysis Several interfaces – Connexion, Z39.50, FirstSearch, WorldCat.org

4 OCLC PICA contribution to WorldCat 35.5 million European holdings Contribution via online cataloguing, retrospective conversion, batchloading Major OCLC PICA contributors – UK, Scandinavia, South Africa, France (pre-2002) Batchloaded files: BL, Czech National Bibliography, GGC, LinkUK, Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National Library of Education Major ILL users: BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia Loading soon: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, GBV

5 Contribution fulfills OCLC Membership OCLC PICA delegation to OCLC Members Council OCLC Members Council (66 delegates) meets 3 times pa at OCLC Dublin Delegates elected through annual process for 3 year term Current OCLC PICA delegation: David Bradbury (UK); Berndt Dugall (D); Poul Erlandsen (DK); Colin Harris (UK); Alex Klugkist (NL); Ariette Skolnik (NL); Ellen Tise (SA) OCLC PICA delegation also meets with OCLC PICA Board

6 Contribution provides foundation for other OCLC Services eg. WorldCat Collection Analysis Features Analyze collection age & subject content Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness Analyze group collections for uniqueness & overlap for cooperative collection development

7 UK Public Library group analysis

8 Open WorldCat – making the library visible in search engines 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now extended to further partners Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC WorldCat records Search engine displays results as “Find in a Library” Link to library holdings Deep linking to OPAC and full text

9 Open WorldCat : meeting the user where the user is Find in a Library 84% use search engines to begin information search Only 1% begin an information search on a library web site Search engines use achieves high satisfaction rates People trust what they find on search engines Search engines are a better ‘life style’ fit than physical libraries ‘Self serve’ is a growing trend findings from “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources : a report to the OCLC Membership” OCLC, 2005

10 Current Partners

11 Open WorldCat-enabled Web tools Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching Google Toolbar AutoLink FireFox search extensions

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18 Library Info

19 Ask a Librarian

20 Other Editions

21 Reviews

22 Tables of Contents

23 Purchase options

24 Google Scholar

25 Feedback

26 European Pilot July – August 2006 Dutch and UK participants Evaluated the interface translation, postcode data and “buy it” options Ranked features Provided advice on place in library workflow

27 Pilot - Partner sites used

28 Pilot – Interface Translation

29 Pilot - Postal code / Location

30 Pilot - link to Amazon.co.uk Books380 Music20 DVD13 Electronics6 Kitchen & House2 Clicks and orders every day during the pilot

31 WorldCat.org OCLC’s own destination portal builds on Open WorldCat access to all WorldCat records holdings of subscribing libraries only OWC interface translations (inc Dutch) initial beta release August 2006

32 WorldCat.org

33 WorldCat.org 1.0 – brief results

34 WorldCat.org – library locations

35 WorldCat.org – local availability

36 WorldCat.org 1.0 – brief results

37 WorldCat.org 1.0 – tools

38 WorldCat.org 1.0 – registration

39 WorldCat.org - where next? Add more European holdings Add more “get it” options Integrate with European resource sharing services Add payment options Add authentication and other resolvers Add more personalisation and social features

40 WorldCat Future Directions Add more non-US union and national catalogues (particularly non roman scripts) Add more full text and digital content Improve holdings level for e-serials Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in non- roman scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials and special collections) Integrate into OCLC PICA services

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42 Office of Research prototypes…

43 WorldCat statistics

44 Watch WorldCat grow ……..