OCLC Latin America

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OCLC Latin America the Caribbean

• Business Plan OverviewOCLC Members Council
  October 22, 2002

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Presentation Agenda

• Latin American the Caribbean
• Region Overview
• Trends
• FY02 Accomplishments
• FY03 Goals
• OCLC Mexico
• Region Overview
• Trends
• Participation in the Mexican Library Community

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The Caribbean and Central America
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South America
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Region Overview

• High value on education and continuing education
• Improved telecommunications infrastructure
  wired community
• Academic public libraries are seeking to
  cooperate
• Population of over 422 million who speak Spanish
  as a 1st language
• National pride national treasures
• NAFTA for Mexico

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Market Findings

• Libraries need want traditional services
• Cataloging
• ILL
• Reference
• Digital services are also of interest
• Libraries end users want need local language
  content
• Libraries want to develop local cooperation
  efforts

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OCLC SWOT Analysis

• Strengths
• WorldCat expertise in union catalog creation
• Model for library cooperation throughout the
  world
• Not-for-profit, membership cooperative
• Infrastructure knowledge
• Weaknesses
• English-language centric
• Revamping older systems takes time

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OCLC SWOT Analysis

• Opportunities
• Need for professional development
• Advances in information arena are forcing
  libraries to be creative with resources
• Strong interest in digital content creation
  management
• Many rich, historical collections to share with
  the world
• Threats
• Free Internet sources for metadata
• Well established alternatives

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Regional Priorities

• Mexico
• The Caribbean
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Argentina

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Segment Priorities

• Academic Libraries
• National Libraries
• Public Libraries
• Ministries of Education other entities

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Service Priorities

• Cataloging Conversion
• Reference
• WorldCat
• Full-text articles
• netLibrary e-books
• Resource Sharing
• Digitization metadata services
• Identify partners in region
• Identify collections
• Pilot projects

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FY02 Accomplishments

• Establishment of OCLC Mexico
• Expanded the number of libraries
• participating in library cooperation
• through OCLC
• Increased Spanish-language Content
• WorldCat
• Bibliographic authority records
• FirstSearch
• Clase AI database
• Periodica AI database

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FY02 Accomplishments

• Spanish Interface to OCLC Cataloging
• Developed Partnerships
• UNAM document delivery partnership for
• full-text AI databases
• Spanish Intellectual Content

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LAC FY02 Accomplishments

• The Caribbean, Brazil Argentina
• Academic, National Library Ministry of
• Education, Public Libraries, Museums,
• and Archives
• Chile
• DIBAM to load records of National
• Library, public libraries, archives
• museums in WorldCat
• Regionally
• Negotiating joint courses with
• UNESCO for The Americas

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FY03 Goals

• Mexico
• Partnering with key institutions
• OCLC Mexican Advisory Council January 2003
• Additional Spanish-language content
  digitization
• The Caribbean
• Continue to expand library cooperation
• Chile
• Partner with DIBAM for Spanish content
  digitization
• Regionally
• Spanish version of Distance Learning Course
  Cataloging Internet Resources

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OCLC México

• Facilitating Mexican Library Cooperation

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OCLC Mexico - Overview

• Leading Mexican institutions are members
• 200 participating libraries in Mexico
• 191 or 96 are OCLC member libraries
• 11 of the 1786 academic libraries in Mexico
• 83 of all LAC participating libraries
• Extensive sources of Spanish language records
  content
• Use of common standards
• MARC AACR2
• increasing automation Z39.50

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OCLC Mexico - Overview

• Mexican Libraries Earliest Adopters within Latin
  American Region
• Technologies
• Information Services
• Techniques
• Mexican Libraries Furthest Along in Library
  Cooperation within Latin American Region
• Use of common standards
• MARC AACR2
• increasing automation Z39.50

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Contributions to WorldCat

• Facilitating a Mexican Union Catalog
• El Colegio de Mexico
• 375,000 records
• National Library of Mexico
• 2.1million volumes (in progress)
• UNAM
• 850,000 records (in progress)
• ITESM
• 150,000 records

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OCLC Mexico

• Possible OCLC Membership in FY03
• CONPAB All Public Universities in Mexico (37
  universities)
• Cataloging
• QuestionPoint pilot Spanish interface
• REBIESS Regional Network in the Southeast (9
  universities)
• Conversion and cataloging

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Loading valuable member content into FirstSearch
• Clase A I
• Periodica A I
• Partnering with UNAM for document delivery

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Increased frequency effectiveness
  ofcommunication within the community
• Creation OCLC Mexico listserv Sep 02
• OCLC Mexico invited talks
• Military University Mar 02
• Challenge Information Industry Apr 02
• Electronic Books Jul 02
• Commitments for a new Generation of
  Librarians21st Century AMBAC, Jun 02

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Increasing frequency effectiveness of
  communication within the community
• Mexican Lib. Assn. Research Journal
• LIBER AMBAC Aug 02
• INFORMACION, DOCUMENTACION, COM.
• Private independent journal H. Reynel publ. Oct
  02
• Universitys Library Journal BIBLIOTECA
  ESPECIALIZADA UNAM Nov 02

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Active Participation in the Community
• National Library
• loading database metadata to WorldCat
• CONPAB
• OCLC main sponsor and attendee at annual
  conferences
• Jornadas AMBAC Mexicos ALA
• 600 attendees from around Mexico

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Active Participation in the Community
• UNAM Conference on Cooperation Digital
  Libraries
• Jay Jordan, Chuck Costakos gave talks at the
  conference
• AMIGOS 2002
• Consortium of resource sharing libraries
• ENBA (National Library School)
• Library School Program agreement with OCLC

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Active Participation in Various Mexican Library
  Associations
• Mexican Library Association - AMBAC
• Univ. Colima Hi-Tech oriented
• Science Tech. Lib. Assn. ABICyT
• Agronomy Library Assn. ANBAGRO
• Health Sci. Libr. Assn. PROFICSA
• Regional Repr. Health Sci. RENCIS

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OCLCs Commitment to Mexican Libraries

• Member Satisfaction Survey (July 02)
• High satisfaction marks, requested more Spanish
  content
• Users Meeting Jun 02
• The basis of OCLC Mexico Cooperative
• Third Annual Meeting held at AMBAC
• Emphasized the importance of library cooperation
• Established a listserv for ongoing communication
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Advisory Council

• Opinion Leaders from key libraries
• 1st meeting January 2003, Mexico City

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Questions

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