Lauren Pinsley

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WorldCat LocalFind it at your fingertips

• Lauren Pinsley
• OCLC Services Manager

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Agenda

• Search environment and user expectations
• Objectives of WorldCat.org
• WorldCat Local
• Overview
• Demonstration

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The studies showed

• students accessed convenient, vetted, and
  aggregated online resources
• -Beyond Google How Do Students Conduct Academic
  Research, Alison Head, August 2007

Nearly three-quarters (73) of college students
say they use the Internet more than the library,
while only 9 said they use the library more than
the Internet for information searching.. -The
Internet Goes to College How Students are Living
in the Future with Today's Technology
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What we learned

• Patrons value libraries for
• Authoritative content
• Research assistance
• The library as place

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User Expectations in a Web World

• User participation, contribution, collaboration
• Simplicity and ease of use
• Self-service
• Immediate gratification
• Rich interactivity

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WorldCat Discovery Options
WorldCat Where You Are WorldCat on the
Web WorldCat for You

• Open WorldCat
• WorldCat.org
• WorldCat Local

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Open WorldCat

• Integrates WorldCat content into popular search
  engines (Google, Yahoo! Search, etc.) and
  bookseller sites
• WorldCat records display in search results along
  with other Web resources

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Open WorldCat
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WorldCat.org Web site
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Downloadable WorldCat search box
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WorldCat.org numbers Good news for libraries
Other interesting usage stats
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WorldCat Local What Problem Are We Solving?

• For the past 10 years online searching has
  become simpler and more effective everywhere,
  except library catalogs.
• University of California System Report 2005

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WorldCat Local

• Library-branded version of WorldCat.org
• Serves as a librarys discovery delivery
  service
• Delivers access to WorldCat with metadata
  representing all of the librarys physical
  electronic collections
• Interoperates with existing local system
• Integrated library system
• Consortia borrowing system
• Resource-sharing system
• Link resolver

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Upcoming WorldCat.org enhancements

• Enhanced facets
• Spellchecker
• Better representation and access for digital
  content
• Local holdings records for branch visibility
• More social features
• Reviews/ratings/recommendations
• RSS feeds/alerts
• Social tags/ folksonomies
• Institution search
• Registry http//www.worldcat.org/registry/Institu
  tions

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Live Demo
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Configurable Features

• Library branding - Interface and search box
• Relevancy ranking elevates local holdings in
  search results can include consortium/group
  members
• Interoperability with ILS, resource sharing
  services, and OpenURL resolver
• Metadata for local collections included in search

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WorldCat Local pilot and release

• Pilot participants
• University of Washington (April 2007)
• Peninsula Library System (August 2007)
• State of Illinois (October 2007)
• The Ohio State University (Early 2008)
• University of California Libraries (Early 2008)

Coming Summer 2008 Cornell University
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Success at University of Washington

• WorldCat Locals impact on borrowing and
  resource sharing
• 65 increase July to October 2006/2007 in
  borrowing within consortium
• 80 increase over 2006 in October alone
• 70 increase in ILL requests May to October
  2006/2007
• September 2007 122 increase
• October 2007 150 increase
• 16.28 increase in ILLs processed

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What people are saying
WorldCat Local provides a syndication platform so
that we can meet users at their point of need. We
have to complete the discovery-to-delivery chain
no matter where the user starts out.

• Bill Jordan, University of Washington

The new search catalog, WorldCat is AMAZING
compared to the old UW library searchBravo!
University of Washington library user
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Lincoln Trail Libraries System

• Released on October 2007
• Includes
• Central High School Media Center
• http//centralmc.worldcat.org
• Mattoon Public Library
• http//mattoonlibrary.worldcat.org
• Hoopeston Public Library
• http//hoopestonpubliclibrary.worldcat.org
• Lincoln Trail Libraries System
• http//lincolntrail.worldcat.org

Freakin Awesome! High School Student
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Other Illinois Pilot Participants

• CARLI (3 libraries Northeastern Illinois
  University, University of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign and Illinois State Library)
• Late January release planned
• Glenside Public Library (1 library)
• January February release planned
• Rolling Prairie Libraries (3 libraries)
• Cooperative Computer Services (CCS)
• Targeted for early 2008 (1 library)

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Which Integrated Library Systems work with
WorldCat Local?

• Testing complete
• Innovative Interfaces (INN-Reach, Millennium)
• SirsiDynix (Horizon)
• ExLibris (Voyager)
• Coming soon
• Aleph
• Unicorn
• More to follow

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Additional information

• Personal consultation and purchase details
• Contact OCLC Sales Consultant Mary Sue Iddings
• iddingsm_at_oclc.org or 1-877-490-5764
• Register for email updates about WorldCat
• https//www.oclc.org/email/subscribe.htm
• WorldCat Local Web site
• http//www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal

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Questions?
Lauren Pinsley, OCLC Services Manager pinsleyl_at_nyl
ink.org 800-342-3353 518/443-5444