Catherine Bonser OCLC PICA

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Catherine BonserOCLC PICA
International Information Document Supply
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OCLC WorldCat resource sharing

• WorldCat 60 million bibliographic records
• Almost 1 billion holdings
• 12 million LinkUK
• 7,000 libraries worldwide
• 1 million requests per month on average
• Overall - 95 fill rate

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Current trends

• Increasing user expectations
• Continuing reductions in library budgets
• Do more with less
• Users look and locate information in
  non-traditional ways
• New ways for users to have information delivered

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Meeting user expectations

• Seamless flow from discovery to delivery
• FirstSearch platform
• LinkUK holdings in WorldCat
• Mediated/unmediated requests
• Direct request
• Open WorldCat - Weaving libraries into the Web

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OCLC Environmental Scan
Challenge How do we bring the world of the
Library (order, rationality) and the world of
the Web (disorder, anarchy) together ?
OCLC Mission To weave libraries into the Web
becomes the driver behind the Open WorldCat
Program
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Search for other editions
Go to library catalogue
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Doing more with less!

• Collection Analysis
• Compare your holdings with others
  (groups/individually)
• E-Holdings Pilot
• IFM
• Policies Directory