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Strategic Partnerships: An International View . 30 October 2003. Vision. OCLC will be the leading global library cooperative helping libraries serve people by providing economical access to knowledge through innovation and collaboration. OCLC’s public purposes.
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Strategic Partnerships: An International View 30 October 2003
Vision OCLC will be the leading global library cooperative helping libraries serve people by providing economical access to knowledge through innovation and collaboration.
OCLC’s public purposes Further access to the world’s information Reduce the rate of rise of per-unit library costs
The Cooperative 45,000 libraries 8,878 in 83 countries outside U.S. 650 4,100 36,524 3,000 678 450
SABINET Online Gerhard Kemp
OCLCPICA Rein van Charldorp Janet Lees Nick Rawson
OCLC PICAMembers Council delegates Christine Bailey University of Glasgow Wim van Drimmelin Royal Library of the Netherlands Diane ManUniversity of the Witwatersrand Norma Read University of Cape Town
Australia China Hong Kong Japan Korea Singapore Taiwan Asia Pacific Cataloging QuestionPoint netLibrary FirstSearch E-journals ILLiad
WorldCat • 53 million records • 888 million location listings • 40 million books • 2.4 million serials • 1.4 million visual materials
scholarly resources Trends: information formats “e” materials traditional materials 2003 printed scholarly journals five-year forecast
Trends: research & learning • Reduced funding • Proliferation of e-learning • Institutional repositories • New flows of scholarly materials • Lifelong learning
Trends: library landscape • Many librarians retiring • Technical and economic challenges of digital preservation • Managing digital content • Mainstream special collections • Increased integration • No pattern of involvement with research and learning materials
E-learning “Libraries and the Enhancement of E-learning”
Collections stewardship high low books journals freely-accessible web resources low uniqueness research and learning materials special collections high
OCLC Research ...to expand knowledge that advances OCLC’s public purpose of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing library costs.
OCLC Research subject classification name authority citation analysis e-print archives ePrints UK user view
OCLC Research “A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects”
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) FRBR work-set algorithm Work | expression | manifestation | item
netLibrary • 60,000 titles • 8,670 libraries • 385 publishers
Australia Taiwan Switzerland Slovenia Germany Belgium Sweden Denmark Greece Japan Norway Netherlands China UK Canada Non-US libraries QuestionPoint
Digital Archive • 3,000 objects
CONTENTdm Dutch example goes here, OCLC PICA to provide a URL..THIS IS FROM A MUNCIPAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN THE NETHERLANDS (SEE LIBER SPEECH).
Olive software Historical newspaper digitization & delivery
WorldCattomorrow MARC, Dublin Core, IFLA FRBR full text new contributors links UNICODE graphics, sound and motion
Knowledge map physical digital manuscripts sound recordings articles e-content by articles eBooks books about websites images art video clips documentaries
Who pays the ferryman? • Differential pricing • cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly) • share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community
Who pays the ferryman? • Differential pricing • cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly) • share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community
Who pays the ferryman? • Differential pricing • cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly) • share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community
Who pays the ferryman? • Differential pricing • cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly) • share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community
Who pays the ferryman? • Differential pricing • cooperate (eliminate duplicate effort, do together what none of us can do singly) • share development costs through OCLC’s infrastructure—combination skunkworks and working computer center for the international library community