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OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Meeting The Libraries Australia/ OCLC Relationship Anne Horn University Librarian Deakin University 15 April 2010. What day/month is this? What is missing?. 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins. 1916 WWI First day on the Somme .
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OCLC Asia Pacific Regional MeetingThe Libraries Australia/ OCLC RelationshipAnne HornUniversity LibrarianDeakin University15 April 2010
What day/month is this? What is missing? 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins 1916 WWI First day on the Somme 1978 The Northern Territory is granted self-government 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman 1997 Hong Kong is handed back to Chinese authorities July 1 • Libraries Australia and OCLC sign Collaborative Services Agreement
History of the relationship with OCLC Libraries Australia OCLC Small number of Australian member libraries 1981 - 1999 ABN 1999 - 2005 Kinetica 2005 -Libraries Australia 2005 - 2007 NLA and OCLC discussed “federated WorldCat” concept
National Library Agreement with OCLC – commenced July 2007 Essence of this new relationship The Australian resource sharing network retains its independence Providing unlimited search and cataloguing access Greater exposure of the collections of Australian libraries internationally Protecting Australian library interestsin maintenance of a viable National Bibliographic Database and Libraries Australia service
Supporting the Vision Libraries Australia OCLC The world’s libraries. Connected. 72,000 libraries 171 countries Connecting more libraries and more records through web technology, amplifying the power of library cooperation • Supports collaboration between member libraries (over 1,000) • An essential pillar of the national information architecture
Collaborative Services Agreement • national representation in OCLC’s Regional and Global Councils • searches of WorldCat through Libraries Australia now at 1.3m per year • data synchronisation with WorldCat
Collaborative Services Agreement • support for CBS (catalogue utility) software • support for VDX (interlibrary loan) software • local support for global services such as collection analysis and WorldCat Registry • benefit from OCLC research and development and service improvements
Cataloguing • CBS cataloguing client software Release 3.3.8.6 (March 2010) • CBS v5.0 cataloguing software in test • will incorporate the CBS Job Manager • we are very keen to see more widespread adoption of SRU Record Update with local systems
Document Delivery • ILL activity still expanding through LADD • ISO ILL Protocol interoperability testing with local systems continues at high rate – see LAAC paper Libraries Australia achievements [LAAC/2010/1/2] • VDX software: Release 4.1.2 (April 2010) • User interface improvements including streamlined request entry • Configurable ILL actions and work queues • Discussions commenced on ILL network interconnection – see LAAC paper WorldCat Resource Sharing [LAAC/2010/1/7] Source www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/laac/papers.html
Complementary services • WorldCat Collection Analysis - each analysis can be done against two-to-ten libraries (ie., OCLC symbols) with peer collections - OCLC has predefined some peer groups, but is also happy to take requests • WorldCat Registry – data exchanged with the Australian Libraries Gateway periodically • WorldCat FAQ at www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/FAQarchive.html#oclc
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