1. The OCLC-AMICAL RESPOND project: Leveraging WorldCat to connect international American universities

2. AMICAL interest in resource sharing confirmed in member surveys  2004: most common interest area for cooperation  2006: “success” includes resource sharing

3. What is resource sharing?  Sharing of content that has been collected by institutions

4. Percentage of collection in English

5. Significant collections in non-English languages LanguageNumber of AMICAL Libraries French6 Arabic5 German3 Russian3 Greek2 Italian2 Hungarian1 Kyrgyz1 Spanish1

6. Elements of RESPOND 1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat 3. AMICAL union catalog 4. WorldCat Resource Sharing 5. Rebuilding local catalogs 6. Collection Analysis

7. RESPOND:  Access to OCLC global network  Facilitating resource sharing within AMICAL  Broadening awareness of AMICAL library holdings

8. Discovery of AMICAL holdings via Open WorldCat

10. Loading local records into WorldCat Holdings; Bib records unique in AMICALcat

11. Bib records unique in WorldCat

12. Current Status  Holdings in WorldCat: 730,000  Pilot: Loading local records into WorldCat Search interface to WorldCat AMICAL union catalog WorldCat Resource Sharing Rebuilding local catalogs Collection Analysis

13. Best practices in ILL  Conceptual  Structural  Procedural (from Leon, DeWeese, Kochan, Peterson-Lugo & Zillig, 2003)

16. RESPOND Participants

17. WorldCat Consolidated index of the holdings of thousands of libraries, worldwide  88 million bibliographic records  Over 1 billion item locations  Created through the cooperative contributions of member libraries  Data forms the basis for wide variety of OCLC’s products and services

18. Elements of RESPOND 1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat 3. WorldCat Resource Sharing 4. Building our local catalogs from WorldCat records 5. AMICAL union catalog 6. Collection Analysis

19. Elements of RESPOND 1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat 3. WorldCat Resource Sharing 4. Building our local catalogs from WorldCat records 5. AMICAL union catalog 6. Collection Analysis

20. AMICALcat: The AMICAL Group Catalog

21. Benefits and Challenges

22. Benefits… Allows wider range of possibilities for resource sharing  Consolidating workflow  Increasing performance  Simplifying union catalog creation  Reflection on best practices

23. Best practices in ILL  Conceptual  Structural  Procedural (from Leon, DeWeese, Kochan, Peterson-Lugo & Zillig, 2003)

24. Challenges…  Large number of new and unfamiliar tools and workflows  Time and coordination necessary for inclusion of records in WorldCat Comprehensively Successfully  Diversity of languages and scripts  Coordinating with OCLC and with each other

25. Map of RESPOND Participants