The document discusses updates from the OCLC member services, highlighting a governance study, statistics on library usage, and new initiatives aimed at improving library services and infrastructure. It provides insights into how libraries are adapting to the digital age and the challenges they face in terms of funding and community engagement. Additionally, it details various OCLC programs and collaborations designed to enhance resource sharing and access to information for libraries worldwide.

1. Sirsi Midwest Users’ Group Annual Conference July 25, 2008 Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Coordinator, NEBASE What’s New at OCLC?

2. The OCLC Cooperative 69,826 libraries in 112 countries 1,355 55,284 882 5,639 4,253 1,015 320 1,080

3. 2007-2008 OCLC Members Council Executive Committee

4. Advisory Committee on Small Libraries Recommended by OCLC Members Council How to make OCLC services accessible to smaller libraries Chair – George Bishop, Director, Ovid-Elsie Schools Information Center in Michigan

5. Governance Study Report Members Council and Board discuss findings (February 2008) Board makes recommendations for changes (April 2008) Members Council ratifies (May 2008) Implementation begins (July 2008)

6. New OCLC governance structure Regional Council Regional Council Regional Council Global Council Board of Trustees Members Members Members

7. US Service Providers OCLC Western (Including Alaska and Hawaii) Amigos Library Services, Inc. BCR NEBASE MINITEX BCR WILS INCOLSA MLC OHIONET NELINET NyLink PALINET OCLC Eastern (DC, MD, VA) SOLINET ILLINET FEDLINK (All U.S. Federal Libraries) MLNC CLC BLC

8. RONDAC - Regional OCLC Network Directors Advisory Committee PHOTO FROM 2007 annual report

9. Membership Reports/Studies 84% use search engines to begin an information search 2% begin an information search on a library Web site 90% are satisfied with search engines libraries = books Internet’s readers are becoming its authors U.S. library Web site usage—20% (down from 30% in 2005) 25% of general public and 50% of college students participate in social sites

10. From Awareness to Funding Key findings: There are a lot of people who don’t know about their public libraries. The library’s most committed funding supporters are not the heaviest library users. Perceptions of the librarian are an important predictor of library funding support

11. OCLC Programs and Research: Agenda supporting new modes of research, teaching and learning managing the collective collection renovating descriptive and organizing practices modeling new service infrastructures architecture and standards measurement and behaviors

12. OCLC Research Systems and service architecture Knowledge organization Interoperability Collection and User analysis Content management

13. Virtual International Authority File

14. WorldCat xISBN service Machine-to-machine FRBR Free for individual & non-commercial use

15. WorldMap

16. OCLC ResearchWorks

17. RLG Programs convening groups of experts building communities developing consensus on shared challenges prototyping innovative information tools and services organizing collaborative initiatives taking an active role in creating and promoting relevant standards and practices

18. RLG Programs Museum Data Exchange Study $145,000 grant from Mellon Foundation GallerySystemsTMS OAI-PMH Batch export of records from museum systems Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art Princeton University Art Museum Yale University Art Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum Cleveland Museum of Art

19. WebJunction: 5 th anniversary Funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 32,000 library staff registered 70,000 unique monthly visitors Programs: Rural library sustainability Spanish language outreach Technology planning Online learning Community Partners: Maine Minnesota New Hampshire Vermont Washington EqualAccess Libraries Alabama Arizona Connecticut Iowa Illinois Indiana Kansas

20. WorldCat at April 1, 2008 84.1m Books 4.1m Serials 3.1m Visual materials 1.5m Maps 100 million records 1.14 billion holdings 3.1m Sound recordings 2.2m Scores .7m Computer files

21. WorldCat at June 29, 2008 20.0m 18.7m 9.3m 4.7m fy2008 fy2007 fy2006 fy2005 107 million records!

22. Batchloading/processing 1998: 14.7 m 1999: 34.6 m 2000: 31.2 m 2001: 22.9 m 2002: 22.9 m 2003: 27.4 m 2004: 24.1 m 2005: 37.8 m 2006: 86.4 m 2007: 139.7m 2008: 250 m

23. National files loaded or pending for WorldCat ARLICON (Russia) Bavarian State Library Bibliothèque nationale de France Bibliothek Alexandrina (Egypt) Bibliothekszentrum Baden Wurtemburg (Germany) Bibliothesverbund Bayern (Germany) British Library CBUC (Spain) Danish National Library CURL (UK) GBV (Germany) HBZ Verbund (Germany) HeBIS (Germany) IZUM (Slovenia) Jewish National and University Library Lebanese American University Libraries and Archives Canada

24. National files loaded or pending for WorldCat National Library of Australia National Library of China National Library of Finland National Library of Iceland National Library of New Zealand National Library of Russia National Library of Scotland National Library of Slovenia National Library of Sweden National Central Library, Taiwan National Library of Wales OBV (Germany) Qatar University Russian State Library Swiss National Library The Combined Regions (UK) VLACC (Belgium) Zayed University Consortium (UAE)

25. Multilingual WorldCat Percentage of non-English Records 1998 36% 2008 50 ¼ %

26. Next Generation Cataloging Services Pilot Upstream capture of ONIX metadata Libraries: Chicago Public Library Phoenix Public Library MIT Library The Ohio State University Library Publishers/vendors: Ingram Book Group Hachette Book Group Princeton University Press Taylor and Francis

27. WorldCat API 10-15 developers from cataloging institutions in North America and Europe Search of WorldCat and retrieval of holdings Developers build applications that will enhance the value of member-contributed metadata

28. Dewey Decimal Classfication

29. CONTENTdm Efficient online access to primary source materials PDF support Connexion digital import Persistent URLs Click-through thumbnail images on WorldCat.org

30. Harvest Metadata from Digital Content Management Systems Metadata Content management server The Web End users retrieve the information they need

31. Digital Archive

32. eBooks 170,000 titles 6,500 eAudiobooks 450 publishers

33. NetLibrary Media Center—Coming Soon Key Benefits: Single click transfer to a portable device Title segmentation Makes NetLibrary audiobooks accessible to as many users as possible.

34. WorldCat Collection Analysis Analyze usage data ILL borrows, loans Circulation transactions, ratios Authoritative list comparisons Choice—Outstanding Academic Titles Library Journal School Library Journal Doody’s Core Medical Titles

35. QuestionPoint jointly developed by LC and OCLC in 2002 1,900 libraries 1,500 libraries in 24/7 reference cooperative Global knowledge base: 18,000 records in 11 languages Qwidget (chat widget) QuestionPoint blog 3 millionth question—November 2008

36. WorldCat Registry Institution type Industry identifying codes Physical & electronic locations Consortial memberships Main and branch data Web-based services Vendors used Budgetary and service statistics Administrative contacts

37. Orbis Cascade Alliance and OCLC new consortial borrowing solution WorldCat.org, VDX, WorldCat Resource Sharing and a new circulation gateway 38 libraries in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Hawaii 28 million volumes

39. Participating materials vendor partners

40. IBERBOOK SÁNCHEZ CUESTA, S.A. Coming soon…

41. WorldCat.org

42. WorldCat.org: Average Monthly Traffic 2 million unique users 13 million page views 6 million full record views 750,000 clickthroughs to library services (OPAC, ILL, OpenURL, etc.)

43. 20 million article-level records 20,000 Inside Serials—articles from 20,000 journals 57 million TOTAL ARTICLE-LEVEL RECORDS NOW IN WORLDCAT.ORG British Library and WorldCat.org

44. WorldCat Lists

45. WorldCat Identities

46. WorldCat: Facebook Widget

47. OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat Synchronizes WorldCat with digital collections of interest to the membership Participating organizations provide OCLC with a regular feed of metadata WorldCat is automatically updated with new MARC records as materials become available Reciprocal linking between WorldCat and the host site Automatic

48. WorldCat Local Pilot Faceted browse Evaluative content FRBRized results Citation formatting Relevancy Ranking Customized local view Interoperates with local systems for circulation, resource sharing, resolution to full text

49. WorldCat Local at UCLA Library

50. Limit search to UCLA Library

51. Limit search to UC libraries

52. Search libraries worldwide

54. WorldCat Local Pilots and Beyond Pilot Partners University of Washington State of Illinois 13 libraries The Ohio State University University of California System Melvyl pilot Already Signed Up! Cornell University CTW Consortium Indiana University Macalaster College Library University of Delaware University of South Florida University of Texas at Austin Already Activated! State Library of Ohio

55. WorldCat Local and Resource Sharing University of Washington July-Dec. 2006/2007 100% increase in ILL requests via WorldCat 70% increase in borrowing within Summit consortium

56. OCLC The world’s libraries. Connected. More collaboration More libraries More archives, museums More countries More Web scale More innovation Group Local Global

57. THANK YOU! Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Coordinator NEBASE [email_address] 800-307-2665 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebase OCLC Regional Service Providers: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/contacts/regional/