OCLC, Libraries Australia, and the Global Information and Research Infrastructure

1. OCLC, Libraries Australia, and the Global Information and Research Infrastructure Libraries Australia Forum Karen Calhoun Vice President, WorldCat & Metadata Services September 6, 2007

2. The Changing Context for Research, Teaching, and Learning Knowledge itself will be modified and research and development transformed by the new capacities provided by IT. Nothing will be left untouched. The liberal arts will be revived and transfigured, liberated from their age-long reliance on text alone. The silos of the departments will topple as new approaches to bewildering issues are pursued with new vigor by scholars in mind-boggling combinations of once insular and isolated disciplines. –Frank H. T. Rhodes, past President of Cornell University, in The Creation of the Future

3. Library Portals Search Engines 2% 84% The Search Engine Challenge Q: Where do you typically begin your search for information on a particular topic? From OCLC: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)

4. What is the Global Information and Research Infrastructure, and What are the Roles of Libraries? From Dempsey, Lorcan, Eric Childress et al. 2005. “Metadata switch.” In E-Scholarship: ALITA Guide (Chicago: LITA).

5. Library Frameworks for Discovery and Delivery • Support for public education • Integrating access to a variety of sources • Contribution to the culture • Searching across institutional boundaries • Preservation of our heritage • Integrated information management • “New types of information infrastructure” • Union catalogs as a primary means of access to library collections >>> Libraries Australia • Aggregation of supply and demand Cathro, Warwick S. 2001. Keynote paper: Visions for fundamental change in libraries and librarianship for Asia Pacific. Library Review 50 (7/8): 334-42.

6. Outward Integration “Place as library” --Nancy Davenport, Council on Library and Information Resources “Integration should be outward rather than inward, with libraries seeking to use their components in new ways” --Interviewee for LC report on future of the catalog “Everywhere, the library” --Carla Stoffle, University of Arizona Library

7. WorldCat Strategies Moving libraries and library operations to the network to create local economies, system wide efficiencies, and global impact for OCLC members and customers

8. Then:the user built their workflow around the library Now:the library must build its service around the user workflow

9. Increase the impact of libraries Reduce unnecessary fragmentation and redundancies Put libraries at the point of need Create Web Scale Make the network work for libraries Create system-wide efficiencies

10. Outward Integration, Exposure, And Linking Of Library Collections (e.g., Google, Open WorldCat, Libraries Australia) Local Authentication, Discovery And Delivery Services GLOBAL GROUP LOCAL Data Flows & Synchronization

11. The “world” in WorldCat OCLC Online Computer Library Center A Catalog of Global Proportions

12. OCLC Participants

13. Database Extent and Growth* • Manifestations (records): 67.3 million • Works: 53.5 million • Holdings: 1.1 billion • Languages: 476 • English 57%, Non-English 43% • Growth: 9.3 million records and 110 million holdings added in 2006 • Even faster growth in 2007 From 2006 annual report: http://www.oclc.org/news/publications/annualreports/2006/2006.pdf

15. WorldCat Script Support • Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, and Thai

17. Governance Study: Charge from OCLC Board • Draw on the research and analyses done by OCLC and others to understand the environmental factors likely to have an impact on libraries, other cultural heritage institutions, and OCLC into the coming decade. • Review and evaluate the current and alternative governance forms for OCLC. • Recommend a governance structure appropriate to the roles that OCLC is expected to carry out in the next decade.

18. NETWORK INTERFACESERVICES CONSUMER SERVICES MANAGEMENT SERVICES A View of Library Services Remix/reuse services in other environments; support seamless locating and requesting workflows Connect users/consumers to libraries at the global, group, and local level Services for libraries to manage collections and services efficiently

19. NETWORK INTERFACESERVICES Open WorldCat Program

20. Open WorldCat: Global Integrator, Driving Searches to Your Library

21. Find in a Library …

22. … In Brisbane

23. Get It from the UQ Library

24. CONSUMER SERVICES WorldCat.org: Destination Site

25. WorldCat.org: Toolbar Access Too

26. Stats: are we on the right track? • Click throughs • Conversions

27. Click-throughs to WorldCat.org pages

28. Conversions

29. Libraries Australia and WorldCat: Status • Preparing to load ANBD records • Fix related to Z39.50 vs. Libraries Australia Search view of holdings (November) • SRU update (to keep holdings synchronized over time) (Coming soon)

30. SRU UPDATE Libraries Australia Teratext PUSH L O G Libraries Australia CBS SRU UPDATE M21 WorldCat WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id Infrastructure

31. A Few of Many Opportunities for Collaboration • WorldCat Registry • FRBRization • WorldCat Identities • VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

32. WorldCat Registry

33. WorldCat Identities • Office of Research initiative • http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/

34. Miles Franklin

35. Miles’ Identity, Page 1

36. Miles’ Identity, Page 2 My Brilliant Career, 37 editions held by 1,347 libraries worldwide

37. Robin Cornette Lorcan Dempsey and the OCLC Office of Research Janifer Gatenby Matt Goldner Thom Hickey Janet Lees George Needham Glenn Patton Doug Perkins Phil Schieber Phyllis Spies Credits

38. Thank you! We look forward to developing our partnership with the National Library and all libraries in Australia. Karen Calhoun calhounk@oclc.org