OCLC Members Council February 7, 2005

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OCLC Members Council February 7, 2005

• Jay JordanOCLC President Chief Executive
  Officer

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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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OCLC Participants
Over 52,000 libraries in 95 countries
964
4,733
41,958
3,616
785
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Latin America the Caribbean

• Brazil
• Brazilian Senate QuestionPoint
• SciELO
• Chile
• SciELO
• Mexico
• BIBMEX Group Catalog

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OCLC Asia Pacific

• Australia
• AskNow! Chasing the Sun
• Japan
• National Institute of Informatics1,000 libraries
  to access WorldCat for cataloging
• Thailand
• 64 UniNet libraries
• purchase eBooks

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OCLC Canada

• University of Alberta
• 1,032 eBooks
• Digitization
• Archives of Manitoba
• Manitoba Library Consortium
• New members
• College of New Caledonia
• Lethbridge Community
• College
• NorthWest Public Library
• University of Guelph
• Winnipeg Public Library

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OCLC PICA

• The Netherlands
• HAN University
• University of Groningen
• Germany
• Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Greece
• HEAL-Link

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1 billion in 2005
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TopCAT Hall of Fame
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TopCAT Awards
New Service Award!
New Platform Team

• Open WorldCat Team

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• Baker Taylor

NetLibrary eBooks
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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

• OCLC PAIS
• International

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OCLC Research Publications Repository
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Top 1000
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2,500 Prize!
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Advocacy
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Registry of Digital Masters

• A joint project of the Digital Library Federation
  and OCLC
• Subset of WorldCat on FirstSearch

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CONTENTdm Harvested Collections

• Broward County Library
• Combined Arms Research Library
• Indiana Historical Society
• Louisiana Tech University
• Nashville Public Library
• Pequot Library
• Southern Utah University

• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Washington State University
• West Virginia Wesleyan
• College
• Westminster College
• Winnefox Library System
• Wisconsin Historical Society

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NetLibrary eBooks

• 84,000 titles
• 12,720 libraries
• 439 publishers
• 46 countries
• Digital audio books

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Cooperative Virtual Reference
Email
eBooks
Phone
QuestionPoint 24/7
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Group Catalog Services

• Implemented
• Illinois
• Florida
• MERLN
• Missouri
• Montana
• Transportation
• Libraries
• ATLA

• Coming Soon
• Alaska
• Canadian Transportation Libraries
• Long Island Library Resources Council

• North Carolina Community
• Colleges
• U.S. Air Force
• Idaho
• SEPCHE
• Georgia Public
• Library Service

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• Gates Foundation Grants
• IMLS Grant

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Migration Update
metadata capture (batchload)
migration complete
FirstSearch
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2004
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Connexion ILL/FirstSearch
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Open WorldCat Program
Book PageHCI Bibliography
AbebooksAlibrisAntiquarian Book Sellers
Association of America
Google Yahoo!
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Google Scholar
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Google Print

• Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, U. of Michigan, New
  York Public Library
• Find in a library
• Metadata available from OCLC retrospective
  conversion projects

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Yahoo!/OCLC Toolbar
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Improving Library Visibility
Clicks into Open WorldCat 2004-2005
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Open WorldCat

• Powerful library advocate in a Web world
• Surface WorldCat content
• Guide users to libraries resources
• Purpose
• Boost library collection visibility on Web
• Participation
• Add your librarys records to WorldCat
• Subscribe to WorldCat on FirstSearch by July 1,
  2005

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2000Strategic Plan

• Extend the cooperative
• Become more global
• Introduce new services
• Transform WorldCat
• Build new technological platform
• Weave Libraries into the Web

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Key Objectives Fiscal 2006
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1. Become as good at helping libraries manage
digital collections as we have been at helping
them manage print collections

• Develop services to help libraries manage
  licensed digital content, integrated into local
  systems and resolution services
• Develop services to help libraries manage
  institutional digital collections
• Make WorldCat the premier index to the worlds
  library collections
• Develop enterprise-wide resource sharing plan
  (Boulder, Dublin, Leiden)

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1. Become as good at helping libraries manage
digital collections as we have been at helping
them manage print collections
Projects include

• Create in WorldCat a knowledge base of e-serials
  and library holdings
• Develop link registry
• Launch OAI harvesting of metadata records
• Support ingest of non-MARC 21 formats
• Implement terminology service to link WorldCat to
  authority files, DDC and other classfication
  schemes, thesauri

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2. Deliver OCLC and library collections and
services at the point of need.

• Expand Open WorldCat with enhanced services,
  additional partners and new funding models
• Syndicate delivery of OCLC cataloging records to
  large materials providers
• Identify global opportunities for growth of OCLC
  online cataloging service
• Make OCLC services available through Web services
  for integration into other environments and
  applications

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2. Deliver OCLC and library collections and
services at the point of need.
Projects include

• Open WorldCat discussions with additional search
  engines
• Discussions with large materials providers for
  syndication of catalog records

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3. Become the premier e-content provider of
choice for libraries, publishers, distributors
and other organizations.

• Business Plan July 2005
• Syndicate e-book delivery through additional
  channels
• Add new types of e-content
• Create seamless access to e-content
• Become e-content site of choice

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3. Become the premier e-content provider of
choice for libraries, publishers, distributors
and other organizations.
Projects include

• Implement marketing of eBooks through Baker
  Taylor
• Continue to grow digital audio book offering
• Expand offering to different languages
• Implement new search engine

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4. Improve the way we deliver products and
services.

• Discontinue transaction pricing and implement
  subscription pricing for ILL and cataloging
  services
• Optimize effectiveness of distribution channels
  with U.S. regional service providers and
  distributors worldwide through improved
  coordination and communication, training,
  incentives and planning

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4. Improve the way we deliver products and
services.
Projects include

• Develop with U.S. regional service providers a
  shared vision for sales and service
• Online Service Center (Web store)

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Key Objectives Fiscal 2006
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Thank You Questions?

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