Sessieronde: WorldCat

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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

• 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 trend
• findings 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
Clicks and orders every day during the pilot
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WorldCat.org

• OCLCs 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 ..