Sessieronde: WorldCat

Janet Lees OCLC PICA

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Agenda

• WorldCat overview• European library holdings in WorldCat• OpenWorldCat and WorldCat.org • Future Directions • Some fun things to look at

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WorldCat Overview

• OCLC Union Catalog(ue) – global scope but not global coverage. US holdings dominate.

• 68 million records, 1 billion holdings • All types of materials – print, maps, visual,

electronic, serials, all date ranges • All languages – Unicode support includes non-

roman scripts • Platform for cataloguing, resource sharing,

reference, collection analysis• Several interfaces – Connexion, Z39.50,

FirstSearch, WorldCat.org

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OCLC PICA contribution to WorldCat

• 35.5 million European holdings • Contribution via online cataloguing, retrospective

conversion, batchloading• Major OCLC PICA contributors – UK, Scandinavia,

South Africa, France (pre-2002)• Batchloaded files: BL, Czech National

Bibliography, GGC, LinkUK, Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National Library of Education

• Major ILL users: BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia

• Loading soon: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, GBV

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Contribution fulfills OCLC Membership

OCLC PICA delegation to OCLC Members Council• OCLC Members Council (66 delegates) meets 3

times pa at OCLC Dublin • Delegates elected through annual process for 3

year term• Current OCLC PICA delegation: David Bradbury

(UK); Berndt Dugall (D); Poul Erlandsen (DK); Colin Harris (UK); Alex Klugkist (NL); Ariette Skolnik (NL); Ellen Tise (SA)

• OCLC PICA delegation also meets with OCLC PICA Board

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Contribution provides foundation for other OCLC Services eg. WorldCat Collection Analysis

Features • Analyze collection age & subject content • Compare collection to other OCLC member

libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness

• Analyze group collections for uniqueness & overlap for cooperative collection development

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UK Public Library group analysis

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Open WorldCat – making the library visible in search engines

• 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now extended to further partners

• Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC WorldCat records

• Search engine displays results as “Find in a Library”

• Link to library holdings • Deep linking to OPAC and full text

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Open WorldCat : meeting the user where the user is

Find in a LibraryFind in a Library

• 84% use search engines to begin information search • Only 1% begin an information search on a library web site• Search engines use achieves high satisfaction rates • People trust what they find on search engines• Search engines are a better ‘life style’ fit than physical libraries• ‘Self serve’ is a growing trendfindings from “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources : a report to the OCLC Membership” OCLC, 2005

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Current Partners

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Open WorldCat-enabled Web tools

• Yahoo! Toolbar with WorldCat searching

• Google Toolbar AutoLink

• FireFox search extensions

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Start with an Internet search …

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Library Info

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Ask a Librarian

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Other Editions

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Reviews

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Tables of Contents

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Purchase options

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Google Scholar

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Feedback

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European Pilot

• July – August 2006 • Dutch and UK participants • Evaluated the interface translation, postcode

data and “buy it” options• Ranked features • Provided advice on place in library workflow

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Pilot - Partner sites used

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Pilot – Interface Translation

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Pilot - Postal code / Location

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Pilot - link to Amazon.co.uk

Books 380

Music 20

DVD 13

Electronics 6

Kitchen & House 2

Clicks and orders every day during the pilot

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WorldCat.org

• OCLC’s own destination portal• builds on Open WorldCat • access to all WorldCat records • holdings of subscribing libraries only • OWC interface translations (inc Dutch)• initial beta release August 2006

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WorldCat.org

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WorldCat.org 1.0 – brief results

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WorldCat.org – library locations

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WorldCat.org – local availability

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WorldCat.org 1.0 – brief results

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WorldCat.org 1.0 – tools

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WorldCat.org 1.0 – registration

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WorldCat.org - where next?

• Add more European holdings• Add more “get it” options• Integrate with European resource sharing

services • Add payment options • Add authentication and other resolvers• Add more personalisation and social

features

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WorldCat Future Directions

• Add more non-US union and national catalogues (particularly non roman scripts)

• Add more full text and digital content• Improve holdings level for e-serials• Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in non-

roman scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials and special collections)

• Integrate into OCLC PICA services

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Finally some fun things ……..

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Office of Research prototypes…

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WorldCat statistics

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Watch WorldCat grow ……..