OCLC a worldwide library cooperative New Services and Future Directions

1. OCLC a worldwide library cooperativeNew Services and Future Directions Birmingham January 2008 Vivien Cook Regional Account Manager OCLC

2. OCLC - A bit of History • 41 year old, not-for profit library service and research organisation • Provides cataloguing, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and web services • Co-operative of 60,000 libraries in 112 countries • Member libraries and OCLC have created and maintain WorldCat, the largest & richest online resource for discovery and delivery of library materials

3. OCLC Presence and Activities outside the U.S. • First European office opened 1981 – UK based to serve EMEA • 2000 – OCLC acquired 60% shares of PICA • Mid/late 2000 acquired SISIS (Germany) and FDI (UK) • 2007 – OCLC acquired remaining shares of OCLC PICA • 2008 – one name, one visual brand from ALL offices to reflect “a global enterprise with a unified strategy to serve libraries worldwide.”

4. Extending WorldCat European records & holdings • 2006 – 2007 • OCLC focussed efforts to encourage the batchload of European records and holdings from: • Finnish National Bibliography • Dutch Central Catalogue • National Union Catalogue of Poland • German National Bibliography • GBV German consortium • Bavarian State Library

5. Extending WorldCat European records & holdings • National Library of Sweden • New Bulgaria University • American University Bulgaria • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences • Ongoing loads from the National Library of the Czech Republic • Ongoing loads from the National Library of Education

6. WorldCat Statistics Collectively created and maintained by 9,000+ libraries. 86,000,000 records (Fiscal Yr 07: 18.7 million new records added) 1,143,000 holdings 9.8 million inter library loan transactions in FY07 38.1 million reference searches in FY07 Interesting Fact:Every 2 seconds a member library record is added http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/annualreports/2007.pdf

7. WorldCat as the Foundation Stone Reference & Discovery Metadata and Cataloguing Web Exposure Collection Management Resource Sharing & Delivery Digital objects metadata now automatically transferred to WorldCat from CONTENTdm

8. OCLC Metadata & Cataloguing Options • Connexion – web and client interfaces • CatExpress – web-based user-friendly interface • Z39.50 Client – LMS driven • WorldCat Cataloguing partners – MARC records for e-resources • WorldCat Selection – streamline Acquisitions practice • Batchload – for MANY services…… • Next generation Cataloguing Pilot – Get records earlier in the chain

9. Resource & Delivery • OCLC ILL – well established in Denmark • UnityUK – Physical UK union catalogue and resource sharing solution • VDX – Virtual Document Delivery solution – Oresund Consortium • ILLIAD – Resource sharing software popular in the U.S. • A suitable solution for all.

10. Reference, Discovery & Web exposure • The common theme is “finding”… • FirstSearch – online reference resource • QuestionPoint – virtual reference solution currently evaluated by Roskilde University • OpenWorldCat – First pilot project to expose Library holdings in the web space • WorldCat.org - Beta program placing the entire WorldCat database on the web • WorldCat Local - A localised version of WorldCat bringing your holdings to the fore. • Portal solution - ZPortal

11. OpenWorldCat – relevancy on the web • The Open WorldCat program makes records of library-owned materials in OCLC's WorldCat database available to Web users on popular Internet search, bibliographic and bookselling sites, including Google, Yahoo! Search and Windows Live Academic. Links to content in library collections—books, videos, serials, digital images and many other formats—appear alongside links to traditional Web content. • The result: WorldCat-participating libraries are more visible on the Web, and their collections are more accessible from the sites where many people start their search for information. Libraries get greater exposure to information-seekers and increased use of their online catalog, electronic content and other Web-based services.

12. Open WorldCat – relevancy on the web How Open WorldCat works

13. WorldCat.org Our destination site for public searching of the entire WorldCat database Released August 2006 in beta form, WorldCat.org continues OCLC's efforts—begun with the Open WorldCat program—to make library resources more visible to Web users, and to increase awareness of libraries as a primary source of reliable information and helpful personal assistance. Where Open WorldCat inserts "Find in a Library" results within regular search engine results, WorldCat.org provides a permanent destination page and search box that lets a broader range of people discover the riches of library-held materials catalogued in the WorldCat database.

14. WorldCat.org

18. WorldCat.Local

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25. WorldCat Indentities

26. WorldCat Registry

27. WorldCat Collection Management • Enables libraries to: • Analyse collection age & subject content • Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify • overlap and uniqueness • Analyze group collections for uniqueness and overlap for cooperative • collection development • Online access via FirstSearch • Based on OCLC Conspectus • Supports LC, Dewey, NLM classification systems • Provide information on . . . • Subject, Publication date, Language, Format, Audience level • Title-level information from WorldCat • Tab-delimited and exportable • Graphs are available

28. Group Analysis View

29. Drilldown to Divisions

30. Drilldown to Categories in Business

31. Pre-1900 Economic Theory – 29 Titles

32. Graph View by Publication Date

33. Overlap View

34. Uniqueness View - Library Level

35. Change Analysis – Column Values Languages

36. Limit Analysis Screen

37. Limit Analysis Screen

38. Individual Analysis View

39. Peer Group Creation

40. Thank You! Questions?