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Our Space Shanghai Library 16 June 2008 Jay Jordan President and CEO OCLC
OUR space trends and events in the information industry
OCLC Programs and Research: Agenda supporting new modes of research, teaching and learning managing the collective collection renovating descriptive and organizing practices modeling new service infrastructures architecture and standards measurement and behaviors
84% use search engines to begin an information search 2% begin an information search on a library Web site 90% are satisfied with search engines libraries = books Internet’s readers are becoming its authors U.S. library Web site usage—20% (down from 30% in 2005) 25% of general public and 50% of college students participate in social sites Membership Reports/Studies
OUR space the OCLC cooperative
The OCLC Cooperative 60,457 libraries in 112 countries 1,148 5,697 48,535 3,630 873 1,015 320
2000—Strategic Plan Extend the cooperative Introduce new services Transform WorldCat Build new technological platform Weave libraries into the Web
Transforming WorldCat MARC, Dublin Core, IFLA FRBR, LDAP, EAD, SOAP, XML, OAI-PMH, SRU Full Text New Contributors Open URL Unicode Graphics, Sound & Motion
New Technological Platform WorldCat script support: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil, Thai Connexion interfaces: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish FirstSearch interfaces: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish QuestionPoint: 25 languages
New services since 1998 • 2005WorldCat Collection AnalysisOpen WorldCat • WorldCat.orgeSerials Holdings WorldCat Selection • 2007 WorldCat RegistryOCLC Digital RepositoryTerminologies • 2008 EZproxyWorldCat Local 1999CatExpress 2000 IlliadPAIS 2002 CONTENTdmConnexionNetLibraryQuestionPoint 2003 WebJunctionLIBPAC-V.3 Web 2004 Group Services24x7
Harvest Metadata from Digital Content Management Systems The Web End users retrieve the information they need Metadata Content management server
eBooks 170,000 titles 6,500 eAudiobooks 450 publishers
WorldCat Collection Analysis Analyze usage data ILL borrows, loans Circulation transactions, ratios Authoritative list comparisons Choice—Outstanding Academic Titles Library Journal School Library Journal Doody’s Core Medical Titles
QuestionPoint Jointly developed by Library of Congress & OCLC in 2002 1,900 libraries 23 countries 3 millionth question handled—Nov. 2007 17,000 Q&A records in Global Knowledge Base
OCLC Strategy: Build Web scale for libraries Provide a combination of local, group and global nodes that work together seamlessly and symbiotically Increase access to the world’s information and reduce institutional costs of providing that access Local Group Global
WorldCat at April 1, 2008 84.1m Books 4.1m Serials 3.1m Visual materials 1.5m Maps 3.1m Sound recordings 2.2m Scores .7m Computer files 100 million records 1.14 billion holdings
WorldCat at April 1, 2008 20.0m 18.7m 9.3m 4.7m fy2008 fy2007 fy2006 fy2005 100 million records!
Top 10 Original CatalogersYear ended June 30, 2007 Godfrey Memorial Library University of Hong Kong South Asia Union Catalog Project Center for Research Libraries Florence Griswold Museum Northwestern University New York Public Library Research Library Newberry Library University of California, Berkeley Chinese University of Hong Kong 135,830 85,157 45,457 44,012 38,967 24,357 17,895 16,624 16,588 13,873
National files pending for WorldCat ARLICON (Russia) Bavarian State Library Bibliothèque nationale de France Bibliothek Alexandrina (Egypt) Bibliothekszentrum Baden Wurtemburg (Germany) Bibliothesverbund Bayern (Germany) British Library CBUC (Spain) Danish National Library CURL (UK) GBV (Germany) HBZ Verbund (Germany) HeBIS (Germany) IZUM (Slovenia) Jewish National and University Library Lebanese American University Libraries and Archives Canada
National files pending for WorldCat National Library of Australia National Library of China National Library of Finland National Library of Iceland National Library of New Zealand National Library of Russia National Library of Scotland National Library of Slovenia National Library of Sweden National Central Library, Taiwan National Library of Wales OBV (Germany) Qatar University Russian State Library Swiss National Library The Combined Regions (UK) VLACC (Belgium) Zayed University Consortium (UAE)
Total Records English French German Spanish Japanese Russian Chinese Italian Latin Portuguese Dutch Hebrew Multilingual WorldCat 36% 1998 50¼% 2008 Percentage of Non-English Records 1998:37.5m records 23.9 m 2.3 m 2.2 m 1.6 m .8 m .8 m .7 m .7 m .3 m .3 m .2 m .2 m 2007:86.0m records 45.3 m 5.3 m 9.8 m 3.3 m 1.8 m 1.5 m 2.0 m 1.4 m 1.0 m .8 m 2.5 m .5 m
20 million article-level records 20,000 Inside Serials—articles from 20,000 journals 57 million TOTAL ARTICLE-LEVEL RECORDS NOW IN WORLDCAT.ORG British Library and WorldCat.org
OCLC Strategy: Build Web scale for libraries Next Generation Cataloging Pilot WorldCat.org WorldCat Local Local Group Global
Next Generation Cataloging Services Pilot Capture ONIX metadata from publishers and vendors upstream Academic and public libraries Publishers and vendors
WorldCat.org 2006/2007 2005/2006 129.4 m 7.6 m 63.2 m 1.9 m Referrals from partner sites to Open WorldCat landing page Click-throughs from Open WorldCat to library services
WorldCat.org: current statistics 2.5 million 7 million 750,000 users/month records/month clickthroughs
WorldCat API 10-15 developers from cataloging institutions in North America and Europe Search of WorldCat and retrieval of holdings Developers build applications that will drive people back to OCLC services
WorldCat Local Pilot Faceted browse Evaluative content FRBRized results Citation formatting Relevancy Ranking Customized local view Interoperates with local systems for circulation, resource sharing, resolution to full text
WorldCat Local uwashington.worldcat.org
Holdings: Local, Group, Global Universityof Washington 1 2 Summit 3 WorldCat
WorldCat Local and Resource Sharing University of Washington July-Dec. 2006/2007 increase in borrowing within Summit consortium 70% increase in ILL requests via WorldCat 100%
WorldCat Local Pilots and Beyond • Pilot Partners • University of Washington • Peninsula Library System, California34 libraries • State of Illinois13 libraries • The Ohio State University • University of California System Melvyl pilot • Already Signed Up! • Cornell University • University of Delaware • University of Hong Kong • University of Maryland System • University of Texas at Austin • Already Activated! • State Library of Ohio
OUR space a global cooperative
Our Expanding Global Cooperative 1979first non-U.S. participant 1989 participants in 39 countries 1990 First non-U.S. Members Council delegate 1993 first non-U.S. Board member 1999 participants in 86 countries 2006 participants in 109 countriesfirst non-U.S. Members Council President 2007 first MC meeting outside U.S.
Since 1998 participating libraries participants outside U.S. participant countries WorldCat records WorldCat holdings 2008 60,000 11,900 112 100 million 1.2 billion 1998 30,000 3,200 64 38 million 668 million
Australia: Footscray, Victoria Canada: Calgary, Alberta Chambly, Quebec Winnipeg, Manitoba China: Beijing France: Asnières sur Seine Germany: Berlin Bonn Oberhaching OCLC: 26 offices in 10 countries • Mexico: • Mexico City • Netherlands: • Leiden • Switzerland: • Basel • United Kingdom: • Birmingham • Sheffield • St. Andrews • United States: • Bethlehem, Pennsylvania • Blackwood, New Jersey • Bloomfield, New Jersey • Boulder, Colorado • Dublin, Ohio • Lacey, Washington • Ontario, California • Overland Park, Kansas • San Mateo, California • Seattle, Washington • Washington, D.C.
China and OCLC 1986OCLC CJK cataloging system 1996 OCLC service center at Tsinghua University 2004 CALIS provides access to NetLibrary eBooks 2008 National Library of China to load records into WorldCat