1. Preserving Access for the Future
Purpose: I want to re-acquaint folks attendings ALA of the types of services OCLC provides in this area because there is increasing need in the community for these services.
Process: 2 steps. 1. overview of digital library needs, 2. linking user needs to OCLC services & contacts.
Payoff: Staff encountering opportunities will be able to assist others by providing a contact to provide more information on a particular topic.
OCLC Digital Collection Services & Preservation Service Centers

2. Digital collections lifecycle
Processing
Planning
Digitization, OCR, XML, Cataloging and Metadata
OCLC provides services to support the increasing digital information collections provided by libraries, museums, and archives. Over the past 5 years we’ve been adapting to this emerging field with a variety of new services and integrating them with WorldCat.
There are no specific entry or exit points in OCLC’s digital life cycle, nor is there a requirement to use all of them. Choose the services that best meet your needs.
WorldCat: OCLC greatly expands access to its member libraries’ collections—digital and physical—by integrating its services with the WorldCat database. WorldCat is the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of bibliographic and library ownership information. Contribute your digital collection’s metadata to WorldCat, or provide access to your digital surrogates through OCLC’s expanding Digital Registry, and your digital collection gets more exposure, helping you recuperate digitization costs more quickly. And your collection becomes part of a collaborative archive of information shared by your users and users around the world.
About 5 years ago, OCLC added to its mission a focus on developing services supporting collections of digital materials in libraries. To that end, this division was formed. Our focus has been in four areas: planning, processing, management, and discovery/access. We provide a variety of services across the entire life cycle of a digital collection.
Processing – one of the biggest expenditures in digital conversion is and will be on keeping up with the latest technology and utilizing it effectively and efficiently. OCLC’s conversion services provide preservation microfilming, scanning, and metadata creation for you to reduce your up-front capital expenditures in this area and reduce your ongoing operating costs in training and re-training as technology and project needs change.
Content management tools – OCLC provides content management tools supporting local management and access to digital objects to help increase the availability of unique, primary source materials available to library users.
Digital Archive – OCLC’s Digital Archive is one of the first archive’s available for use by the library community. The Archive is a general purpose digital repository with tools specialized to the archival needs of specific communities, a service architecture following the Open Archive Information System (OAIS) specification. The Archive exists as part of the growing network of digital repositories providing services to libraries that may not have the capital resources and development staff to create their own in-house service. The Archive currently provides two sets of tools: a web-harvesting capability supporting the increasing web document depository needs of government libraries, and tools for the long-term storage of preservation-master digital still images.
Assess user needs and collection conditions
Management
Discovery / Access
Content Management, microfilm, and digital preservation
Online access to your collection

3. What you can do with OCLC …
OCLC’s Preservation Service Centers are your source for a variety of digitization project needs. We provide a broad array of digtiization capabilities and we specialize in custom processing of difficult to handle materials. Contact: Debra Spruill.
CONTENTdm provides an easy, powerful way to organize and present your digital collections no matter what the format. Contact: Ron Gardner.
The Digital Archive provides services for long-term retention of digital objects. We continually broaden the tools for supporting collection preservation. Contact: Taylor Surface - special note here on the Content Coop Pilot: we are not holding any sessions explaining the Content Cooperative Pilot, but it does appear in a few slides. If folks have questions, send them to Taylor
All OCLC services are centered around providing better exposure for your collections through the connections OCLC has established for Worldcat. If you want to get some of that contact Tam Dalrymple!
Convert print, audio, video to digital in our Preservation Service Centers
Organize digital collections with CONTENTdm
Preserve digitized or born digital information in the Digital Archive
Expose your digital collections thru WorldCat

4. Preservation Service Centers
Lacey, WA
Winnipeg, MB
Digitization
Microfilm
Cataloging
Bethlehem, PA
Dublin, OH
Richmond, VA

5. Preserving Access for the Future
Video digitization
John Walko, Scene Savers
Audio digitization
George Blood, Safe Sound Archive
Digital WSU
Alan Cornish, Washington State University
Digital Preservation OCLC
Taylor Surface, OCLC

6. Preserving Access for the Future
Purpose: I want to re-acquaint folks attendings ALA of the types of services OCLC provides in this area because there is increasing need in the community for these services.
Process: 2 steps. 1. overview of digital library needs, 2. linking user needs to OCLC services & contacts.
Payoff: Staff encountering opportunities will be able to assist others by providing a contact to provide more information on a particular topic.
OCLC Digital Collection Services & Preservation Service Centers