1. OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCLC, Libraries Australia, and the Global Information and Research Infrastructure Libraries Australia Forum Karen Calhoun Vice President, WorldCat & Metadata Services September 6, 2007

2. OCLC Online Computer Library Center The Changing Context for Research, Teaching, and Learning Knowledge itself will be modified and research and development transformed by the new capacities provided by IT. Nothing will be left untouched. The liberal arts will be revived and transfigured, liberated from their age-long reliance on text alone. The silos of the departments will topple as new approaches to bewildering issues are pursued with new vigor by scholars in mind-boggling combinations of once insular and isolated disciplines. –Frank H. T. Rhodes, past President of Cornell University, in The Creation of the Future

3. OCLC Online Computer Library Center From OCLC: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005) 84% Search Engines 2% Library Portals The Search Engine Challenge Q: Where do you typically begin your search for information on a particular topic?

4. OCLC Online Computer Library Center From Dempsey, Lorcan, Eric Childress et al. 2005. “Metadata switch.” In E-Scholarship: A LITA Guide (Chicago: LITA). What is the Global Information and Research Infrastructure, and What are the Roles of Libraries?

5. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Library Frameworks for Discovery and Delivery  Support for public education  Integrating access to a variety of sources  Contribution to the culture  Searching across institutional boundaries  Preservation of our heritage  Integrated information management  “New types of information infrastructure”  Union catalogs as a primary means of access to library collections >>> Libraries Australia  Aggregation of supply and demand Cathro, Warwick S. 2001. Keynote paper: Visions for fundamental change in libraries and librarianship for Asia Pacific. Library Review 50 (7/8): 334-42.

6. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Outward Integration “Integration should be outward rather than inward, with libraries seeking to use their components in new ways” --Interviewee for LC report on future of the catalog “Everywhere, the library” --Carla Stoffle, University of Arizona Library “Place as library” --Nancy Davenport, Council on Library and Information Resources

7. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat Strategies Moving libraries and library operations to the network to create local economies, system wide efficiencies, and global impact for OCLC members and customers

8. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Then: the user built their workflow around the library Now: the library must build its service around the user workflow

9. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Reduce unnecessary fragmentation and redundancies Create system-wide efficiencies Increase the impact of libraries Make the network work for libraries Put libraries at the point of need Create Web Scale

10. OCLC Online Computer Library Center GLOBAL GROUP LOCAL Outward Integration, Exposure, And Linking Of Library Collections (e.g., Google, Open WorldCat, Libraries Australia) Local Authentication, Discovery And Delivery Services Data Flows & Synchronization

11. OCLC Online Computer Library Center A Catalog of Global Proportions OCLC Online Computer Library Center The “world” in WorldCat

12. OCLC Online Computer Library Center OCLC Participants

13. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Database Extent and Growth*  Manifestations (records): 67.3 million  Works: 53.5 million  Holdings: 1.1 billion  Languages: 476  English 57%, Non-English 43%  Growth: 9.3 million records and 110 million holdings added in 2006  Even faster growth in 2007 From 2006 annual report: http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/annualreports/2006/2006.pdf

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15. WorldCat Script Support  Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, and Thai

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18. Governance Study: Charge from OCLC Board  Draw on the research and analyses done by OCLC and others to understand the environmental factors likely to have an impact on libraries, other cultural heritage institutions, and OCLC into the coming decade.  Review and evaluate the current and alternative governance forms for OCLC.  Recommend a governance structure appropriate to the roles that OCLC is expected to carry out in the next decade.

19. OCLC Online Computer Library Center A View of Library Services N ETWORK I NTERFACE S ERVICES C ONSUMER S ERVICES M ANAGEMENT S ERVICES Remix/reuse services in other environments; support seamless locating and requesting workflows Connect users/consumers to libraries at the global, group, and local level Services for libraries to manage collections and services efficiently

20. OCLC Online Computer Library Center N ETWORK I NTERFACE S ERVICES Open WorldCat Program

21. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Open WorldCat: Global Integrator, Driving Searches to Your Library

22. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Find in a Library …

23. OCLC Online Computer Library Center … In Brisbane

24. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Get It from the UQ Library

25. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat.org: Destination Site C ONSUMER S ERVICES

26. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat.org: Toolbar Access Too

27. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Stats: are we on the right track?  Click throughs  Conversions

28. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Click-throughs to WorldCat.org pages

29. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Conversions

30. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Libraries Australia and WorldCat: Status  Preparing to load ANBD records  Fix related to Z39.50 vs. Libraries Australia Search view of holdings (November)  SRU update (to keep holdings synchronized over time) (Coming soon)

31. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Libraries Australia Teratext Libraries Australia CBS LOGLOG PUSH SRU UPDATE M21 WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id WorldCat SRU UPDATE Infrastructure

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33. RLG Transition Information  Main Page  http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/default.htm http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/default.htm  Master Timeline  http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/rlg_master_sc hedule_external.pdf http://www.oclc.org/community/rlg/rlg_master_sc hedule_external.pdf

34. OCLC Online Computer Library Center  Customized view of WorldCat.org that can serve as a library or library consortium’s local discovery service WorldCat Local

35. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat Local Pilot and Release  Pilot began in April 2007  Pilot participants  University of Washington  Peninsula Library System (36 libraries)  State of Illinois (9 libraries)  Ohio State University  University of California (Melvyl)  Service release planned for late 2007

36. OCLC Online Computer Library Center A Few of Many Opportunities for Collaboration  WorldCat Registry  FRBRization  WorldCat Identities  VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

37. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat Registry

38. OCLC Online Computer Library Center FRBRization  Why use it?  Easier to use/understand/navigate large search result sets  OCLC Office of Research projects  http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/ http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/frbr/  OCLC FRBR Work Set Algorithm  FictionFinder  xISBN  A Web service: given an ISBN, returns all ISBNs in a work set

39. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Works with 1 manifestation: 87% Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations: 12% Works with > 5 manifestations: 1% Works with 1 manifestation: 43% of total holdings Works with between 2 and 5 manifestations: 40% of total holdings Works with > 5 manifestations: 17% of total holdings WorksInWorldCatWorksInWorldCat

40. OCLC Online Computer Library Center FictionFinder

41. OCLC Online Computer Library Center WorldCat Identities  Office of Research initiative  http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/ http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/

42. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Miles Franklin

43. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Miles’ Identity, Page 1

44. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Miles’ Identity, Page 2 My Brilliant Career, 37 editions held by 1,347 libraries worldwide

45. OCLC Online Computer Library Center VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)  Joint project: OCLC, Library of Congress, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek  http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/ viaf/ http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/ viaf/  Work in progress

46. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Objectives of VIAF  Link national authority records  Build on their authority work  Move towards universal bibliographic control  Allow national or regional variations in authorized forms to co-exist  Support needs for variations in preferred language, script, and spelling

47. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Credits  Robin Cornette  Lorcan Dempsey and the OCLC Office of Research  Janifer Gatenby  Matt Goldner  Thom Hickey  Janet Lees  George Needham  Glenn Patton  Doug Perkins  Phil Schieber  Phyllis Spies

48. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Thank you! We look forward to developing our partnership with the National Library and all libraries in Australia. Karen Calhoun calhounk@oclc.org