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WorldCat Presentation Background and its Future OCLC Strategy WorldCat.org Program WorldCat Local OCLC Office of Research Mindy Tran Sr. Training & Support Coordinator Electronic Resources & Technology

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WorldCat

Mindy Tran

  • Sr. Training & Support Coordinator

Electronic Resources & Technology Program

… and its Future

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Presentation

  • Background
  • OCLC Strategy
  • WorldCat.org Program
  • WorldCat Local
  • OCLC Office of Research

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Background

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The good

Libraries used and viewed favorably

  • 96% of respondents said that they have

visited a library

  • 57% use libraries frequently
  • 69% say library use is steady or high

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The good

What students value

– Authoritative content – Research assistance – The library as place

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From OCLC: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005)

84%

Search Engines

2%

Library Portals

The not so good

Q: Where do you typically begin your search for information on a particular topic?

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Vision: Aggregate services around the user

  • Discover
  • Get it
  • Create, manage, share

OCLC exists to further access to the world's information and reduce library costs by offering services for libraries and their users.

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Goal

Deliver the collections and services of the library community to the user at the point of need

  • collections
  • services
  • community, expertise, place

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Evolution of Delivery

Acquire Catalog Circulate Synthesize Specialize Mobilize

Atomic Library Services Atomic “non-Library” Services Synthesize - to combine often diverse conceptions into a coherent whole. Specialize - involve specific knowledge in order to serve a particular purpose; to apply or direct to specific end or use. Mobilize - to put into action

Synthesize Mobilize Specialize

  • Local service
  • Local added value
  • Local context
  • Local knowledge

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WorldCat.org

Provides a library network

– Connect users to libraries globally – Visibility on the open web – Specialized views of WorldCat.org

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A view of library services

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Connect users/consumers to libraries at the global level Services for libraries to manage collections and services efficiently

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  • Currently supported services

– Discovery – Fulfillment – Social networking

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WorldCat.org

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WorldCat.org -- Discovery WorldCat.org – Sort WorldCat.org – Advanced search WorldCat.org – Detailed record

WorldCat.org: Links to Digital Archive

WorldCat.org – Citations

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WorldCat.org – Online access BEFORE: One-step to find local libraries

NOW: Local libraries displayed automatically

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Increased web visibility for libraries: Are we on the right track?

Stats

– Impressions – Click throughs – Conversions

Page views / impressions

.org

Click-throughs

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6 Conversions to library services

Click-throughs to WorldCat.org pages

2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Referrals (in millions) 2005-2006 2006-2007

All WorldCat.org libraries

Conversions from WorldCat.org to all WorldCat.org libraries Jan 2006 -- Jan 2007

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200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 800,000 jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec jan 2006 2007 Conversions to library services 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% 300% 350% 400% 450% Month over month % change Conversions Month over month % change

Worldcat.org – Western Libraries

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Social Network Services

  • Services that support user workflow and

connect users with common interests

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  • WorldCat Local

– Customized view of WorldCat.org that can serve as a library or library consortium’s local discovery service

  • WorldCat.org – future phase

– An add-on that allows users to search all licensed databases in the library’s collection

What’s next?

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Components of WorldCat Local

  • Content
  • Interoperability with local delivery

environment

  • Branded version of WorldCat.org

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Content

  • OCLC supplied content

– All of WorldCat (including “shared collections”) – All article metadata in WorldCat.org – All evaluative content in WorldCat on FirstSearch

Content we’ll index from your collection

  • Physical collections
  • Electronic journals
  • Special collections
  • Digitized collections

collections WorldCat.org

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Integration with Local Delivery Environment

Circulation

– Request/Place hold via circulation – Or via intra-consortial borrowing system

Interlibrary loan

– Interoperability with OCLC ILL, ILLiad, VDX

Online full-text

– Direct access to FirstSearch, ECO, NetLibrary – Linking to OpenURL Resolver

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Systems to be tested

  • Innovative (INNOPAC, Millennium,

INNReach)

  • SirsiDynix (Horizon, Unicorn)
  • Endeavor (Voyager)
  • Ex Libris (ALEPH 500)

WorldCat Local: University of Washington Customized View Holdings: Local, Group, Global

UW First Then Summit Rest of WorldCat

Detailed record – item held by UW Detailed record – request item

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Request handled locally

Item not held by UW Item not held by UW

  • r Summit

Article citations Article citations Other interfaces

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Chinese interface Searching in the vernacular

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WorldCat Local Partners

  • Pilot partners

– University of Washington – Peninsula Library System – Libraries from the state of Illinois

  • Other potential partners | In discussions with:

– University of California libraries – The Ohio State University

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WorldCat Local Timeline

  • Pilot – Spring 2007
  • Launch service – Late Summer 2007

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What makes WorldCat Local Unique?

  • Shared-platform approach
  • Access to the global network
  • Syndication across the network

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Office of Research

  • Audience Level
  • Fiction Finder (beta)
  • WorldCat Identities (beta)
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FictionFinder

  • Research prototype
  • Updated December 2006
  • Provides access to books, eBooks, and

audio books tagged as fiction

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OCLC FRBR Workset Algorithm

  • Provides a FRBR-inspired view of the

data

– Groups records into works – Facilitates aggregation of data elements from individual records – Enables creation of richer descriptions – Improves ranking & navigation

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Controlled Vocabularies

  • Extensive use of controlled vocabularies

– Special indexes – Browse lists – Subject clouds

  • FAST used for topics, time periods, and places
  • Also:

– Genre terms for fiction & drama (GSAFD) – Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) – Bilindex – Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM)

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Features

  • FictionFinder displays Audience Level

indicators for works and editions (manifestations)

  • Extensively indexed

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Other Features

  • Default ranking of results is by library

holdings, can also sort by author, title, and number of editions

  • Links to WorldCat.org

– Find any edition (work level) – Find this edition (edition level)

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FictionFinder database

  • Includes

– Comics & graphic novels – Fiction – Dramas – Novels – Short stories – Books, eBooks & Audio formats

  • Excludes

– Works about fiction, drama, etc. – Movies, films, video – Music

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Making data … play well together

Mobilize

Value - Created by broadening scope of mobilization Value – Created by generating tight, minimal Interface definition

Specialize

The “Bow Tie”

Synthesize

Value - Created by broadening scope of synthesization

Embrace all forms of information S

  • urce work using

technology Time and geography no longer important

In a Flat World:

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Thank you!

OCLC Western Service Center Phone: (800) 854-5753 Email: western@oclc.org