OCLC Presidents Report May 22, 2006

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OCLC Presidents Report May 22, 2006

• Jay JordanOCLC President and Chief Executive
  Officer

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Henriette Avram
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Ernie Ingles

• CARL award for Distinguished Service to Research
  Librarianship

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Mark Beatty

• president of LITA for 2007-2008!

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Irene Hoffman

• OCLC CAPCON Executive Director

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2006 IFLA Fellows

• Photo

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ON THE HORIZON

• OCLC eSerials Holding service
• WorldCat.org
• WorldCat Selection service

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WorldCat Selection Service

• ITSO CUL
• Aux Amateurs de Livres International, Blackwell's
  Book Services, Casalini Libri, and Otto
  Harrassowitz

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eSerials Holdings service

• Increase visibility availability of your
  eSerials collection
• EBSCO, Ex Libris, Serials Solutions, TDNet
• Automated holdings maintenance for eSerials in
  WorldCat
• Coming July 2006

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WorldCat.org
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OCLC Participants
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Vision

• OCLC will be the
• leading global library cooperative,
• helping libraries serve people
• by providing economical access to knowledge
• through innovation and collaboration.

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Strategic Overview

• Make WorldCat and OCLC services more
  comprehensive, more available and more useful.
• Pursue cooperative opportunities country by
  country
• Develop local solutions

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Metrics

• growth in number of new participants
• adoption of services by current participants
• retention/renewals
• financial contribution

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Pricing

• Reduce rate of rise of library costs
• Pricing tailored to specific needs and economic
  situations facing non-U.S. participants
• Keep prices as low as possible while maintaining
  strong financial base

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WorldCat Gold Records2006
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Enrich WorldCat

• Loaded into WorldCat
• Finnish National Bibliography
• National Library of Education of Denmark
• LinkUK in United Kingdom
• Dutch Central Catalogue
• National Union Catalog of Poland
• Union catalogs in discussion
• Germany
• Iceland
• South Korea
• Russia
• Sweden
• Taiwan

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New Technological Platform

• WorldCat script support
• Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew,
  Japanese, Korean, Latin, Thai, Tamil
• Connexion interfaces Chinese (Simplified),
  Chinese (Traditional), English, German, Japanese,
  Korean, Spanish
• FirstSearch interfaces Arabic, Chinese
  (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English,
  French, Japanese, Korean,Spanish
• QuestionPoint 25 languages

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6 reasons
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Asia Pacific (3,670 libraries, 3 Members Council
Delegates)

• Dialogue Forum on Chinese Digital Content
• Australia and South KoreaQuestionPoint
• China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, ThailandeBook
  consortia
• Taiwan librariess holdings in Open WorldCat

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Enriching WorldCat

• Waseda University1.5 million records
• Singapore National Union Catalog1.4 million
  records
• Harvard -Yenching Library325,000 records
• Hong Kong Chinese Authority File (HKCA-N)130,000
  Chinese records
• 2005 WorldCat/RLIN Record Exchange225,771 CJK
  records

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OCLC Canada (999 libraries, 1 Members Council
Delegate)

• University of AlbertaLTS cataloging
• University of SaskatchewanLTS cataloging
• PDA-accessible collections
• OCLC Canada Advisory Council
• Cooperative purchasing program

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Latin America the Caribbean (801 libraries, 2
Members Council Delegates)

• New members in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico,
  Panama, Venezuela
• University of West IndiesCONTENTdm
• Distributors in Argentina, Brazil

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Middle East and India (54 libraries)

• Biblioteca AlexandrinaArabic version of DDC 22
• American University in CairoArabic language
  cataloging
• Group catalogs for Qatar Foundation Libraries and
  AMICAL consortium

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OCLC PICA (5,083 libraries, 4 Members Council
Delegates)

• Sisis Informationssysteme and Fretwell-Downing
  Informatics
• National Library of AustraliaCBS software
• City of VeenendallCONTENTdm
• European librariesOpen WorldCat pilot
• UnityWeb resource sharing service (UK)

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Our Expanding Global Cooperative

• 1979first non-U.S. participant
• 1989participants in 39 countries
• 1990First non-U.S. Members Council delegate
• 1993first non-U.S. Board member
• 1999participants in 86 countries
• 2006participants in 109 countries
• 2006first non-U.S. Members Council President
• 2007first MC meeting outside U.S.

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Vision