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Sessieronde: WorldCat. Janet Lees OCLC PICA. Agenda. WorldCat overview European library holdings in WorldCat OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org Future Directions Some fun things to look at. WorldCat Overview.
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Sessieronde: WorldCat Janet Lees OCLC PICA
Agenda • WorldCat overview • European library holdings in WorldCat • OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org • Future Directions • Some fun things to look at
WorldCat Overview • OCLC Union Catalog(ue) – global scope but not global coverage. US holdings dominate. • 68 million records, 1 billion holdings • All types of materials – print, maps, visual, electronic, serials, all date ranges • All languages – Unicode support includes non-roman scripts • Platform for cataloguing, resource sharing, reference, collection analysis • Several interfaces – Connexion, Z39.50, FirstSearch, WorldCat.org
OCLC PICA contribution to WorldCat • 35.5 million European holdings • Contribution via online cataloguing, retrospective conversion, batchloading • Major OCLC PICA contributors – UK, Scandinavia, South Africa, France (pre-2002) • Batchloaded files: BL, Czech National Bibliography, GGC, LinkUK, Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National Library of Education • Major ILL users: BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia • Loading soon: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, GBV
Contribution fulfills OCLC Membership OCLC PICA delegation to OCLC Members Council • OCLC Members Council (66 delegates) meets 3 times pa at OCLC Dublin • Delegates elected through annual process for 3 year term • Current OCLC PICA delegation: David Bradbury (UK); Berndt Dugall (D); Poul Erlandsen (DK); Colin Harris (UK); Alex Klugkist (NL); Ariette Skolnik (NL); Ellen Tise (SA) • OCLC PICA delegation also meets with OCLC PICA Board
Contribution provides foundation for other OCLC Services eg. WorldCat Collection Analysis Features • Analyze collection age & subject content • Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness • Analyze group collections for uniqueness & overlap for cooperative collection development
Open WorldCat – making the library visible in search engines • 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now extended to further partners • Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC WorldCat records • Search engine displays results as “Find in a Library” • Link to library holdings • Deep linking to OPAC and full text
Find in a Library Open WorldCat : meeting the user where the user is • 84% use search engines to begin information search • Only 1% begin an information search on a library web site • Search engines use achieves high satisfaction rates • People trust what they find on search engines • Search engines are a better ‘life style’ fit than physical libraries • ‘Self serve’ is a growing trend • findings from “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources : a report to the OCLC Membership” OCLC, 2005
Open WorldCat-enabled Web tools • Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching • Google Toolbar AutoLink • FireFox search extensions
European Pilot • July – August 2006 • Dutch and UK participants • Evaluated the interface translation, postcode data and “buy it” options • Ranked features • Provided advice on place in library workflow
Pilot - link to Amazon.co.uk Clicks and orders every day during the pilot
WorldCat.org • OCLC’s own destination portal • builds on Open WorldCat • access to all WorldCat records • holdings of subscribing libraries only • OWC interface translations (inc Dutch) • initial beta release August 2006
WorldCat.org - where next? • Add more European holdings • Add more “get it” options • Integrate with European resource sharing services • Add payment options • Add authentication and other resolvers • Add more personalisation and social features
WorldCat Future Directions • Add more non-US union and national catalogues (particularly non roman scripts) • Add more full text and digital content • Improve holdings level for e-serials • Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in non-roman scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials and special collections) • Integrate into OCLC PICA services