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June 30, 2013. Director, Business Development & Publisher Relations kempers@oclc.org. Suzanne Kemperman. OCLC Library Services Business Information ALA Session: Finding Business Information in a Googlized World. SoA. The Inside Out Library: Scale, Learning, Engagement (Jan 2012).
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June 30, 2013 Director, Business Development & Publisher Relations kempers@oclc.org Suzanne Kemperman OCLC Library ServicesBusiness InformationALA Session: Finding Business Information in a Googlized World
SoA The Inside Out Library: Scale, Learning, Engagement (Jan 2012) Lorcan Dempsey Vice President and Chief Strategist In the Googlized world 1.Discovery has scaled to the network level • Personal and institutional curation services = central to research • Management of bibliographic data = part of user workflows, e.g. social reading, citation management, resource guides • Library users have more choices for creating environments customized to their needs, to develop personal libraries connect to network level reservoirs of data and services • Libraries, in turn, need to be part of this activity as much as managing their own domain
The OCLC cooperative:a nonprofit, membership organization Public purpose: Further access to the world’s information Reduce the rate of rise of library costs 72,035 libraries in 170 countries
WorldCat Local 120 M Records Released 187 M Records in the Queue Discovery and delivery of library collections at the user’s point of need Content Discovery Collection TypesCollection Ownership Physical Library-created and owned Electronic Library-licensed Digital collections Open Access Integration & Delivery KnowledgeBase integration for full content delivery OpenUrl resolver support ILS, WMS, Consortial Borrowing, Resource Sharing integration At the User’s Point of Need Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smartphone support On-Campus/Off-Campus support Syndication Partners – Google, Microsoft, EasyBib, Mendeley, etc.
2 B Holdings 1.3 B Records 120 M Records Released 187 M Records in the Queue
WorldCat Local – Business Content 120 M Records Released 187 M Records in the Queue • Accounting • Business • Business Administration • Business News • Economics • European Business • Finance • Global Economics • Human Resources • Market Research • Management • Markets • Small Business • Tax … and more
Content Acquisition – Target Development Content of highest importance to broadest global audience
Business Content from diverse providers • Business & Finance Collection • ePublication Journal Collection • Emerald Abstracts • Emerald Backfiles • Emerald Management Review • Emerald Management Xtra • Emerald Publishing Group • Emerald Subject Collections • Emerald Business Management & • Economics eBook Series World Bank e-Library RMIT Business Collection • Business I • Business II • Business III • M .E. Sharpe eBooks • M .E. Sharpe Journals • InfoSci Books • InfoSci Journals
Business Content From Major Aggregators & Providers • Business Source Complete • (Elite, Premier, Alumni, Gov’t, Main) • Small Business Reference Center • Wilson Business Abstracts • ABI/Inform - with subsets • Canadian Business & Current Affairs • Hoover’s Company Records • ProQuest Accounting and Tax • ProQuest Asian Business & Reference • ProQuest Banking Information Source • ProQuest European Business • Business & Industry • Business & Management Practices • Business Insights: Essentials • Small Business Resource Center
Meeting Diverse User Needs Discovery And Research Library Staff Members Faculty Member or Researcher Business Literature And Business Data Reports, Trends, Concepts, Research data, Stats & Facts Corporate Staff Student
Representing Non-Standard Content • Business Data – Issues Encountered • Quality of material suited for DS? • Unstructured data – body of content, metadata • No standard identifiers like ISBN, ISSN, DOI, etc. • Sufficient functionality brought to data? • What is the capability of technology? • How is user best served? • 3) How can data be best USED, not just IDENTIFIED? • 4) Is specialized data the “right” material for DS? • Can users und erstand and work with data appropriately? • 5) What is the role of librarians re. specialized data and resources?
Directing Patrons to Additional Material Research Centers, Subject Guides, Ask a Librarian, A-Z lists, and more ... The University of Arizona Libraries
WorldCat Local Support • WorldCat Local built in to library web site • All searches conducted in context of library web site • Additional tools at users’ fingertips • WCL Support Center • Library User Group & Librarian leadership team • WCL list server • Ongoing feasibility & usability studies
What’s Ahead? Represent the licensed collections of importance to libraries Continuous effort, International in scope Direction taken from library surveys, librarian requests, user & market research. In our sights -> IBISWorldWorld Markets Research Ctr AdAgeDataCenterMintel Tijdschriftvoor Marketing Entertainment Law & Finance BNA Tax Management Library Datamonitor, Euromonitor Bulletin of EU and US Inflation and Macroeconomic Analysis and more Complete WorldCat Local content listing at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat-local/content/dblist.en.html
Contact Suzanne Kemperman kempers@oclc.org We invite you to engage with us WorldCat Local Support: support@oclc.org WCL Content Requests: publishing@oclc.org Thank you Suzanne Kemperman, OCLC Director of Business Development and Publisher Relations