The World of WorldCat

Rosanna Ramacciotti Territory Development Director

OCLC is a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs.

OCLC : a non for profit organization, governed by member libraries

Increase access to worldwide information

Reduce costs for libraries

16.184 Member Libraries

171 countries

16.184 libraries in 171 countries

10.870 3.617

1.697

OCLC Governance

~16,200

institutions

Members

3

councils

Regional Councils

48 delegates,

3 officers

Global Council

15

trustees

Board of Trustees

Your words have huge

meaning to us

EMEA Regional Council Meeting

Florence, February 2015

THE ADVANTAGES OF

MEMBERSHIP – ACHIEVING MORE

TOGETHER

Supporting the

profession

OCLC Research

• Community Research

• Enhance OCLC’s

engagement with

members

• Provide advanced

development,

technical support and

custom analysis

Leading library-centred research

THE WORLD OF WORLDCAT - THE

MEANING OF THE OCLC GLOBAL

DATA NETWORK

A shared data network that connects people to

knowledge through the world’s libraries and their

collections.

A platform for library services that enables libraries to

share data, work and resources to save money and

deliver value to their users.

339 million records

2.2 billion holdings

43 million digital items

16 million eBooks

Books

261 million E-books

16 million

Serials

12.4 million Visual materials

13 million Musical scores

7.6 million

Maps

4.7 million

Just a few of

the dozens of

types of

content:

Comprehensive and global

English: 131 million

German: 65 million

French: 40 million

Spanish: 16 million

Chinese: 10 million

Italian: 8.2 million

Dutch: 5.8 million

Japanese: 9.7 million

Russian: 4.5 million

Some of the 484 languages represented…

Comprehensive and global

Polish: 4.1 million

Danish: 3.1 million

Latin: 4.4 million

Contributions by National Libraries

Numbers as of June 2015

Holdings in WorldCat 19,536,392

Unique records in WorldCat 419,271

Number of records cataloged 665,678

Number of original records added 589,822

Total transactions for FY2015

ILL Requests/Borrows 88,295

ILL Loans 104,542

Foundation for everything

print

electronic

digital

Global Data Network

global metadata - turn table

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

Metadata Management

Global community manages metadata together

Thousands Manual cataloging

by thousands of

libraries

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

Thousands

Synchronization

with dozens of

national & regional

union catalogs

National Libraries*

etc.

Metadata Ingest & Enrichment

Content Partners

OCLC

Metadata

Ingest &

Enrichment

Aggregate metadata and just load once

etc.

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

Metadata Syndication

Make libraries visible in the Web

OCLC

Metadata

Syndication

End User Partner etc.

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

WorldShare Platform

global metadata

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

Metadata-

API

Knowledge Base

-API Discovery-

API

Ressource Sharing-

API

(and many more…)

Cloud Architecture

Global access to global metadata

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

WorldShare Applications

Metadata

Management

Search/

Discovery ILL

Global applications on top of global metadata

global metadata

Bib Records

Articles

(Central Index)

Authorities

Knowledge

Base Licenses Book & Journal

Vendors

Holdings

Libraries

WorldShare Management Services

Metadata

Management

Search/

Discovery ILL

Acquisition

Reports

License

Manager Circulation

Digital

Collections Library specific data

(multi tenant)

Library Management Applications

global metadata

Global applications on top of global metadata

Resource

Sharing

Metadata End User Management

Four library service lines

WorldShare Management Services (WMS)

A cloud-based library management system

Worldwide WMS update

OCLC Region Signed live

Americas (US, Canada, Latin America) 349 319

ANZ (Australia, New Zealand) 35 26

EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) 17 6

Total Worldwide 401 351 87%

WMS: Current customers (worldwide)

82%

12%

4%

1% 1%

Library Types

Academic

Special

Government

Public

School

51%

17%

14%

10%

2% 2% 2% 2% 4 yr- Private

Community

4 yr- Public

Theological

Technical

Research

Law

Medical

Academics

SCS Mission

To help libraries manage and share

print monographs

COMMERCIAL IN

CONFIDENCE

Helping

Libraries

Manage and

Share Print

Monographs

• The GreenGlass solution of SCS allows to analyze the

data and give decision support – the first part of the

workflow circle

• SCS is now an integral

part of OCLC

• Leverages existing

OCLC Research on

the ‘collective collection’

In January 2015 OCLC acquired

Sustainable Collection Services

Thank you

Rosanna Ramacciotti

Territory Development Director

rosanna.Ramacciotti@oclc.org