Jay Jordan

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OCLC Presidents Report
MembersCouncil
22 October 2007

• Jay Jordan
• President and CEO
• OCLC

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Welcome
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Velkommen
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Bienvenue
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Wellkommen
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Selamatdatang
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Bienvenidos
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Tervetuloa
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Vanakkam
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Welkom
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Welcome! 2007-2008 Members Council
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2007 ACRL Librarian of the Year

• Lizabeth Wilson
• Dean of LibrariesUniversity of Washington
• ChairOCLC Board of Trustees

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Hugh C. Atkinson Award

• James Neal
• Vice President forInformation Servicesand
  University Librarian,Columbia University
• RLG Committee of theOCLC Board of Trustees

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IFLA President-elect

• Ellen R. Tise
• Senior DirectorLibrary andInformation Services
• Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa

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Promotions
Rick Schwieterman Executive Vice Presidentand
Chief Financial Officer
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Promotions
Bruce Crocco Vice President Library Servicesfor
the Americas
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New Responsibilities
Chip Nilges Vice President Business Development
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OCLC Beijing Office opens July 20, 2007
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Beijing Office
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4th China-U.S. Library Conference
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2007-2008 ARL Fellows
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Japanese eBook Collection
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WorldCat Lists
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Advocacy
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RLG Union Catalog
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Computerworld
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Finances
Fiscal 2007 Results
Revenues
234.9m
Operating Results before Portfolio Gain/Loss
715,600k
Contribution AfterPortfolio Gain/Loss
19.5m
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Cataloging
2005/2006
2006/2007
28.4m 86.4m 9.3m
31.7m 139.7m 18.7m

• Items cataloged online
• Items cataloged via batchload
• Catalog records added

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Multilingual WorldCat

• Total Records
• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Japanese
• Russian
• Chinese
• Italian
• Latin
• Portuguese
• Dutch
• Hebrew

199837.5 records 23.9 m 2.3 m 2.2 m 1.6
m .8 m .8 m .7 m .7 m .3 m .3 m .2 m .2 m
200786.0 records 45.3 m 5.3 m 9.8 m 3.3
m 1.8 m 1.5 m 2.0 m 1.4 m 1.0 m .8 m 2.5
m .5 m
Percentage of Non-English Records
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Pending Batchloads of Non-U.S. Files
Bavarian State Library Brazilian Institute of
Information in Science and Technology Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences GBV Glasgow
University HeBIS Jewish National and University
Library National Central Library of
Taiwan National Library of Australia National
Library of China National Library of
Mexico National Library of New Zealand National
Library of Sweden National Taiwan University
9.2 m 34 k 2.0 m 23.0 m 1.0 m 5.5 m 1.0 m 3.0
m 12.0 m 1.5 m 3.0 m 8.0 m 2.0 m 2.4 m
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Resource Sharing
2005/2006
2006/2007
9.7m 1.1b 303 897,852
9.8m 1.14b 326 903,435
Online interlibrary loans Location
listings Resource-sharinggroups supported ILL
Fee Management
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Reference
2005/2006
2006/2007
80.8m 1,900
80m 2,000
FirstSearch searches QuestionPoint libraries
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CONTENTdm
2005/2006
2006/2007
304 38,000
400 100,000
Licenses WorldCat records for digital objects
managed by CONTENTdm
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Open WorldCat
2005/2006
2006/2007
63.2 m 1.9 m
129.4 m 7.6 m
Referrals from partner sites to Open WorldCat
landing page Click-throughs from Open WorldCat
to library services
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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

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Custom Search Box
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Custom URL
uwashington.worldcat.org
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Branded Version of WorldCat.org
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Library Ownership and Availability
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Holdings Local, Group, Global
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Detailed record before usability
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Detailed record after usability
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WorldCat Local Pilot Partners

• University of Washington (April 2007)
• Peninsula Library System, California (August
  2007)34 libraries
• State of Illinois libraries (September 2007 to
  February 2008)13 libraries
• The Ohio State University (December 2007)
• University of California System Melvyl pilot
  (Spring 2008)

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2000Strategic Plan

• Extend the cooperative
• Introduce new services
• Transform WorldCat
• Build new technological platform
• Weave libraries into the Web

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Going Forward

• Provide a combination of local, group and global
  nodes that work together seamlessly and
  symbiotically
• Increase the worlds access to information and
  reduce institutional costs of providing that
  access

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Going ForwardRestructuring

• building teams across geographic regions and
  giving them clear lines of authority.
• aligning our user-facing activities in three
  geographic areas The Americas, Asia Pacific,
  and Europe, Middle East and Africa.
• creating global engineering and global product
  management divisions, with eight engineering
  centers in Germany, the Netherlands, the United
  Kingdom and the United States.

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Going ForwardPriorities

• WorldCat Local
• Next-generation cataloging and resource sharing
• eContent services
• Digital Repository

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Going ForwardPublic Purposes

• Furthering access to the worlds information...
• Reducing the rate of rise of per-unit library
  costs.
• OCLC Programs and Research
• WebJunction
• Advocacy

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New OCLC Logo
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Thank You!

• Questions?