An Update on OCLC Asia Pacific

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An Update on OCLC Asia Pacific

• OCLC CJK Users
• Group Meeting
• San Diego, CA
• March 6, 2004
• Andrew H. Wang
• Executive Director
• OCLC Asia Pacific

Building an Information Network and a People
Network
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OCLC Offices of Regional Responsibilities

• The Americas
• The U.S.A.
• OCLC Canada
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• OCLC PICA
• OCLC Europe and the South Africa
• OCLC Middle East and the North Africa
• OCLC Asia Pacific

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Objectives

• Revisit the rationale for re-evaluating jobs and
  building a new exempt pay structure at OCLC
• Develop a general understanding of job evaluation
• Review the job evaluation process at OCLC
• Understand your important role in providing
  quality assurance in the job evaluation process
• Update project time line

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Growth OCLC Users in Asia Pacific

124 growth rate in 4 years, 2000-2004
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OCLC Users in Asia and the Pacific Region

• 1. China (Mainland) 1,012 institutions
• 2. Japan 515 institutions
• 3. Korea 329 institutions
• 4. Taiwan 194 institutions
• 5. Australia 169 institutions
• 6. Singapore 98 institutions
• 7. New Zealand 43 institutions
• 8. Thailand 28 institutions
• 9. Hong Kong 26 institutions
• 10. Malaysia 17 institutions
• 11. India 16 institutions
• 12. Philippines 4 institutions
• 13. Macau 2 institutions
• 14. Pakistan 2 institutions
• 15. Mauritius 1 institution
• 16. Micronesia 1 institution
• (Users Profiled January 2004)

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OCLC Membership Categories

• OCLC Governing Members
• Libraries that make a contractual commitment to
  catalog ALL newly acquired materials on WorldCat
• The key is contribution of holding symbol and
  original records
• OCLC Members
• Libraries that catalog SOME of their newly
  acquired materials on WorldCat
• Libraries that lend materials (ILL suppliers) to
  other OCLC users
• OCLC Participants
• Libraries that choose not to contribute through
  cooperative cataloging and/or ILL, but wish to
  use other OCLC services

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OCLC Members Council Delegates OCLC Asia
Pacific (Term 2001-2004)

• Ms. Shirley Leung Asia Pacific Delegate
  University Librarian
  
  Hong Kong Baptist
  University
• Mr. Cheng Huanwen China Delegate
  Professor and
  University Librarian
• Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
• Mr. Michitaro Urakawa Japan Delegate
  Director of the
  Library
  
  Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

• China (Mainland)
• China Academic Library Information System (CALIS)
• FirstSearch
• China Library Consortium (CLC)
• netLibrary eBooks
• China National Publications Import Export
  Corporation (CNPIEC)
• ECO (eJournals)
• MARC records supply

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Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

• Japan
• National Institute of Informatics (NII NACSIS)
• Cataloging
• System-to-system link for ILL

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Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

• Korea
• Korea Education Research Information Service
  (KERIS)
• Cataloging and union catalog
• FirstSearch
• ECO (eJournals)
• netLibrary eBooks

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Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

• Singapore
• Singapore Integrated Library Automation Service
  (SILAS)
• Cataloging and union catalog

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Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

• Taiwan
• Consortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan
  (CONCERT)
• FirstSearch
• Taiwan E-Books NetWork (TEBNET)
• netLibrary eBooks

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Major Contributors in Asia MARC Records of
Chinese Information

• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Hong Kong University of Science Technology
• University of Hong Kong

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Major Contributor in Asia MARC Records of
Japanese Information

• Waseda University
• Agreement of 1993 330,000 records
• Agreement of 1998 300,000 records
• Agreement of 2003 90,000 records
  plus 2,500 records monthly

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Opportunities MARC Records of Korean
Information

• National Central Library of Korea

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Opportunities Chinese-Language Information

• Joint University Library Advisory Committee
  (JULAC)
• HKCAN (Hong Kong Chinese Authority Names)
• Shanghai Library
• Index to Journals Published in China
• Shenzhen Library
• Batchload over 1 million records of 23
  institutions

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Opportunities Chinese-Language Information

• National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan
• Dissertations and Thesis
• Index to Newspaper Articles

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The End . . .

• Thank you!
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