ALA Annual Conference OCLC Update Breakfast June 25, 2006

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ALA Annual ConferenceOCLC Update BreakfastJune
25, 2006

• Jay Jordan
• President and CEO
• OCLC

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Roundtables

• Preservation
• Reference FirstSearch
• Virtual ReferenceQuestionPoint
• WebJunction
• WorldCat Collection Analysis
• WorldCat on the Web
• WorldCat Resource Sharing and ILLiad

• Cataloging Connexion, CatExpress, WorldCat
  Selection
• Contract Cataloging
• Dewey
• Digital Collections CONTENTdm
• eContent NetLibrary eBooks, eAudiobooks,
  eJournals
• Global Cooperation
• Language Sets
• OCLC Programs and Research

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Henriette Avram
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2005-2006 OCLC Members Council
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Board of Trustees
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U.S. Service Providers
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RONDAC GROUP PHOTO
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SOLINET OCLCHurricane Relief Assistance
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ALA Endowment Fund

• Rick Schwieterman, Senior Endowment Trustee, and
  Vice President Finance and Treasurer, OCLC
• Fund grows from 12.5 million to 26.5 million
  under his leadership

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Research
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DeweyBrowser
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FRBR in WorldCAT (motion)
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Audience level prototype
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Perceptions of Libraries and Information
Resourceswww.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm

• Survey of 3,348 information consumers
• Ages 14 and up
• English-speakers
• Australia, Canada, Singapore, U.K. , U.S.

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How do you decide who to marry?

• You got to find somebody who likes the same
  stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like
  it that you like sports, and she should keep the
  chips and dip coming.
• --Alan, age 10

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What do most people do on a date?

• Dates are for having fun, and people should use
  them to get to know each other. Even boys have
  something to say if you listen long enough.
• --Lynnette, age 8

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How can a stranger tell if two people are married?

• You might have to guess, based on whether they
  seem to be yelling at the same kids.
• --Derrick, age 8

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Is it better to be single or married?

• Its better to be single but not for boys. Boys
  need someone to clean up after them.
• --Anita, age 9

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How would you make a marriage work?

• Tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she
  looks like a truck.
• --Ricky, age 10

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New Technolgical Platform
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New Technological Platform

• WorldCat script support
• Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew,
  Japanese, Korean, Latin, Thai, Tamil
• 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

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WorldCat Gold Records2006
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Expand Global Holdings

• Loaded into WorldCat
• Finnish National Bibliography
• National Library of Education of Denmark
• LinkUK in United Kingdom
• Dutch Central Catalogue
• National Union Catalog of Poland
• Union catalogs in discussion
• Germany
• Iceland
• South Korea
• Russia
• Sweden
• Taiwan

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1 Billion11 August 2005
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Recent Enhancements

• Request deflection in WorldCat Resource Sharing
• Open WorldCat improved holdings presentation

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Recent Enhancements

• WorldCat on FirstSearch reviews, notes, tables
  of contents
• DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters

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OCLCs Response to LCs Decision on Controlled
Series Access

• We will help member libraries continue in their
  efforts to provide controlled series access to
  their users
• Software changes in loading of LC records
• Changes in hierarchy governing replacement of PCC
  records
• OCLC Quality Control section will make series
  changes as requested by libraries
• CIP upgrade sources will continue to verify
  series information

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Terminologies Service
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NetLibrary eBooks
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Harvest Metadata from Digital Content Management
Systems
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LOUIS
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Increased visibilityPBS documentary

• Currently, were producing a national PBS
  documentary on prayer in America, and part of
  that includes a segment on the experience of
  African Americans in the countrys history.
  There are several images on your site I may be
  interested in using for the documentary...

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Increased visibility ITALY

• The municipality of Alessandria is looking for
  some photos regarding New Orleans Jazz and Louis
  Armstrong for a public exhibition during
  Alessandrias Jazz Festival 2006

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Increased visibilityCZECH REPUBLIC

• My name is Vladimir Polasek. Im interested in
  military fortifications of the 18th and 19th
  century. I found some plans of French military
  installations in LOUISiana Digital Library.

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Group Catalog Services
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WorldCat Collection Analysis
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WebJunction
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Cooperative Virtual Reference
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Open WorldCat
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CLICKS INTO OPEN WORLDCAT
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WorldCat.org
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WorldCat Selection Service

• ITSO CUL
• Aux Amateurs de Livres International, Blackwell's
  Book Services, Casalini Libri, and Otto
  Harrassowitz

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eSerials Holdings service

• Increase visibility availability of your
  eSerials collection
• EBSCO, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions, TDNet
• Automated holdings maintenance for eSerials in
  WorldCat
• Coming July 2006

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Content Cooperative Pilot

• Create and manage digital content with no new
  investment in hardware/software
• Uses Connexion, Digital Archive, FirstSearch,
  Open WorldCat
• 14 institutions in pilot

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Remote Circulation Pilot
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Web 2.0 Power Tools

• Registry of digital masters
• Terminologies service
• WorldCat.org
• Content Cooperative pilo
• Metadata extraction Web service

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Extract data from local file
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ECHO DEPository Project
Metadata Extracted Added to Record
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Discovery Access through WorldCat
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Thumbnail image, Hyperlink to content
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OCLC Participants
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Vision

• OCLC will be the
• leading global library cooperative,
• helping libraries serve people
• by providing economical access to knowledge
• through innovation and collaboration.

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Thank You!

• Visit OCLC Booth 1816