1. Discovery Tools for Health Libraries  11 th September 2015 WorldCat Discovery Services Simon Day Product Manager

2. A global, nonprofit library cooperative 16,737 members in 109 countries 17 offices 5 data centers

3. 25,900+ institutions Members 3 councils Regional Councils 48 members Global Council 16 trustees Board of Trustees Powered by library cooperation

4. Intelligent workflows Global data network Platform Management Services Discovery Services

5. Library discovery challenges 1.Unify and simplify discovery of your local collections –Physical, electronic/licensed, digitised 2.Expand discovery beyond your local collections –Universe of research and evidence 3.Make your collections and services visible to users outside of the library domain –Take the library to the user

6. Help users find and get resources from your library + libraries worldwide through a single search of WorldCat and familiar, authoritative e-content collections. It makes your collections visible on the web.

7. How to unify and simplify library search?

8. Connects users to library resources A community-built database of over 340 million items that libraries own A database of electronic resources representing 13,900 collections from 5,966 providers Knowledge Base A vendor neutral index of over 2,100 collections of electronic resources Central Index of electronic resources Discovering ALL library materials, owned, licensed, open access

9. WorldCat knowledge base powers…

12. Works on any device

13. Demonstration

32. Supports discovery and visibility Make collections discoverable on the Internet via syndication with partners Back to your library in 3 clicks

34. Visibility for library collections WorldCat partner traffic July 2014 – June 2015 44 million referrals from search engines 20 million referrals from other websites 10 million click-throughs to libraries

35. Find and get everything in your library’s collection. 1.Connects users to all your library’s collections— electronic, digital and physical 2.Broad central index 3.Integrated fulfillment for end users Find and get anything in any library worldwide. 4.End-user access to WorldCat Find and get your collections where your users are. 5. Makes library collections visible on the Web

36. Thank you! Simon Day Product Manager simon.day@oclc.org