Optimizing global cooperation: an imperative for the knowledge economy

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Optimizing global cooperation:an imperative for the knowledge economy

National Library of Spain, 7 May 2012#OCLC

Jay JordanPresident and CEOOCLC


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Spain and OCLC

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41 Member libraries

8,465,491 Holdings in WorldCat

6,265,031 Original records in WorldCat

As of 30 June 2011


OCLC Annual Report 2010/2011


WorldCat Local at University of Burgos


National Library of Spain and OCLC

Glòria Pérez-SalmerónDirector,

National Library of Spain

• 3.4 million holdings in WorldCat

• 3.0 million original records added to WorldCat

• Virtual International Authority File


OCLC: owned and governed by member libraries

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Members

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Global Council

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Board of Trustees


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Americas Regional Council Meeting20 January 2012


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OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council

2012 Executive Committee


OCLC Global Council Delegate

Lluìs M. Anglada I de Ferrer

DirectorConsorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya

OCLC Global Council 2009-2012


OCLC Global Council 2011-2012


Fiscal 2011 Fiscal 1998

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International revenues $50.2 m $11 m

% of non-US revenues 24% 8.1%

OCLC Revenues


WorldCat today

264+ millionrecords

1.8+ billionholdings

As of 27 April 2012


WorldCat growth since 1998

As of 27 April 2012


April 2012

60.15%

Total RecordsEnglishGermanFrenchSpanishJapaneseChinese DutchItalianRussian Latin

262.3 m 104.5 m34.9 m24.9 m11.0 m7.9 m6.4 m4.3 m4.2 m3.5 m3.5 m

Multilingual WorldCat


CALIS


Arabic Union Catalogue and WorldCat.org


Dutch public libraries and WorldCat


Italian academic libraries and WorldCat


Slovenian libraries and OCLC

114 Participating libraries

5,411,314 Holdings in WorldCat

410 Interlibrary loan requests

108 Interlibrary loans

As of 30 June 2011


264 million bibliographic records

1.8+ billion holdings

956 million records 29 million items(Institutional repositories, Google, HathiTrust, OAIster)

Physical holdings in WorldCat

Licensed digital content/articles in library collections

Digitizedlocal library content

Representing the collective collection in WorldCat Local and WorldCat.org

As of 27 April 2012


WorldCat Local and South Africa


OCLC Research: Leiden

Shenghui Wang, Ph.D.OCLC Research ScientistBased at EMEA in LeidenPh.D., Computer Science

University of Manchester


OCLC Research: Leiden

Titia van Der WerfProgram Officer

Rob KoopmanInnovation Lab


• 82 of 122 libraries responded

• Universities (50%), independent libraries, museums, public libraries, national libraries

• Over 11 million printed items, 178 km of archives

• September 2012: Report due

OCLC RLUK Special Collections Survey


Trends• Mobile/apps

• Managing down print/managing up digital

• Social/crowd-sourcing

• Cloud services

• Linked open data

Optimizing global cooperation


Cell phone: 1998


OSU Engineering Student Project: Parking Space Availability

Rutgers Washing Machine Availability

Trend: mobile apps


North Carolina State University

NCSU Hill of Beans Coffee Line (of course no line

since it is summer!)

NCSU Webcams—Hill of Beans Coffee line

most popular of all mobile features

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Availability


Mobile WorldCat.org

Take your library with you!


Mobile Web browser models


Could this be your library management system?

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Trend:Managing down print, managing up digital


Managing down print

“We are looking at how research libraries can operate more

efficiently by cloud-sourcing legacy print collections.”CONSTANCE MALPAS

OCLC RESEARCH PROGRAM OFFICER

NYULibraries

ReCAP

HathiTrust


• Google Book Search

• HathiTrust

• Internet Archive

• Open Content Alliance

• Project Gutenberg

• Universal Library

Managing up digital books


Managing digital books: HathiTrust


• Blogs

• Email

• Instant messaging

• Wikis

• Social bookmarking

• Facebook

• Twitter

Trend: Social/crowd-sourcing


The original social network


User-generated content• Annotations• Audio comments• Images• Links• Lists• Ratings• Recommendations• Reviews• Tagging• Text editing• Video

Trend: Social

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Trend: Cloud Services


Change in the library: The impact of OCLC Web-scale Management Services

UsersPrint

Vendors

LibraryOPAC

ILS

Circulation

Cataloging

SelfService

Acquisitions

CatalogingUtility

National/GlobalSystem

ConsortialSystem

ElectronicVendor

A to ZList

Resolver

ERM

Institutional

Repository

Meta-search


Platform ManagementPlatform Management

InfrastructureInfrastructure

DataData

Web ServicesWeb Services

App GalleryApp Gallery

OCLC-built ApplicationsOCLC-built Applications

Library-built ApplicationsLibrary-built Applications

Partner-built ApplicationsPartner-built Applications

Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation

Shared Infrastructure


Global data centersShared Infrastructure


OCLC 2012 computer systems

Operations Center, Kilgour Building, Dublin, Ohio, USA


OCLC: ISO 27001 certified

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001:2005

Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification from Lloyd’s Register

Quality Assurance (LRQA).


• Online union catalog and shared cataloging

• Serials control• Technical processing

(acquisitions)• Interlibrary loan• Retrieval by subject

(reference)• Remote catalog access

and circulation control

Fred Kilgour’s Strategic Plan—1967


University of Delaware: WorldShare Management Services

Gregg SilvisAssistant DirectorLibrary Computing SystemsUniversity of Delaware Library


GLIMR: global manifestation identifierDescriptive


Platform ManagementPlatform Management

InfrastructureInfrastructure

DataData

Web ServicesWeb Services

App GalleryApp Gallery

OCLC-built ApplicationsOCLC-built Applications

Library-built ApplicationsLibrary-built Applications

Partner-built ApplicationsPartner-built Applications

Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation

Shared Infrastructure


“12 seconds off the ground…”


Linked Open Data: Europeana


• Library of Congress• German National Library• National Library of France• National Library of Australia• National Library of the Czech Republic• Library of Alexandria (Egypt)• Getty Research Institute (U.S.)• National Library of Israel• Central Institute for Single Directory of

Italian Libraries • National Library of Portugal• National Library of Spain• National Library of Sweden• Swiss National Library• Vatican Library• National Central University Catalog (Poland)

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(RERO)• Brussels Network of Flemish Public Libraries• University System of Documentation

(SUDOC) (France)• National Authority Cooperative Program

(NACO)• National Library of Mexico

• British Library

• National Agricultural Library (U.S.)

• National Library of New Zealand

• National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

• National Library of Scotland

• National Library of South Africa

• National Library of Wales

VIAFVirtual International Authority File


VIAF.org


ISNI database: CBS and VIAF


FAST


HIVE-ES

Biblioteca Nacional de EspañaLibrary of CongressGetty Research InstituteU.S. Geological SurveyU.S. National Evolutionary

Synthesis Center (NESCent)

Jane Greenberg, Ph.D.DirectorMetadata Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillandCatedrática de Excelencia Dpto. Biblioteconomía y DocumentaciónUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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