This document summarizes an OCLC presentation about its member-driven community and shared innovative products and services that ensure access to knowledge. It discusses OCLC's global network of over 16,000 member libraries in 120 countries and how it shares metadata, supports resource sharing and discovery, provides management tools, and undertakes research to advance libraries. The presentation highlights OCLC's role in cooperative cataloging and tools like WorldCat, Tipasa ILL management, and CONTENTdm for special collections.

1. WILS Peer Council • 5 June 2017
OCLC Now
Meryl Cinnamon, Member Relations Liaison, OCLC, cinnamom@oclc.org

2. We are a member-driven
community
We share innovative products
and services
We ensure access to knowledge

3. A MEMBER-DRIVEN COMMUNITY

4. Send us your photos
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5. Americas
11,093 members
in 27 countries
EMEA
3,802 members
in 70 countries
Asia Pacific
1,664 members
in 23 countries
As of 31 December 2016
A global network of libraries
16,000+ members, 120 countries

6. Global access with a local delivery
Wisconsin
237As of 30 June 2016
Public libraries 107
Academic libraries 49
Votech/community college libraries 30
School libraries 21
Associations/foundations, corporate/business,
other
16
State/municipal/federal/national libraries 13
ARLs 1

9. Global and Regional Councils
16,000+
institutions
Members
Delegates to
three Regional
Councils
Regional Councils
48 Delegates
(combines the 3
Councils)
Global Council
6 of the 14
trustees
Board of Trustees
ELECT COMPOSE ELECT

10. Americas Regional Council (ARC) FY 2017/2018
ARC CHAIR
Chris Cronin
Director of Technical Services
University of Chicago
ARC VICE-CHAIR, CHAIR ELECT
Constantia Constantinou
Dean of University Libraries
Stony Brook University, USA
ARC SECRETARY
Debbie Schachter
Director, Learning Resources
Douglas College
ARC IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
Bonnie Allen
Dean of James E. Walker Library
Middle Tennessee State
University
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12. Join us in
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13. Connect with OCLC colleagues
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14. oclc.org/blog

15. OCLC
Community Center
Join the community at oc.lc/community
• 9,200+ members
• 3,800+ institutions
• 250 new postings a month

16. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

17. A new standard of excellence
in library services technology

18. New technology for our shared future
• Faster access to data
• Agile software
development
• Rapid release schedule
SPEED
• Increased capacity
• Strengthened security
• Improved stability
USER
EXPERIENCE
• Industry-best technologies,
fit for libraries and library
users
• Timely service response
ACCESSIBILITY
• Across all components
• Adapts quickly to changing
needs
SCALE

19. METADATA

20. 395million records
2.5billion holdings
WorldCat gets two
new records
every
second
As of 22 March 2017

21. From where do WorldCat records come?
OCLC
member
libraries
74.47%
National
libraries
20.10%
Vendors/publishers
2.81%Library of Congress
2.62%
As of April 2017

22. 1,004,109 1,014,754
1,080,183
1,197,384
1,503,531
884,548
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1,600,000
FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 (Through
Mar 2017)
Records enhanced by OCLC members

23. 21,352,465
54,482,735
17,046,642
75,998,003
81,584,274
77,633,457
0
10,000,000
20,000,000
30,000,000
40,000,000
50,000,000
60,000,000
70,000,000
80,000,000
90,000,000
FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17
(Through Mar
2017)
Records enhanced by OCLC staff

24. • In 2015, 17+ million records were copy cataloged online
• As of April 2017
‒ OCLC’s Duplicate Detection and Resolution (DDR) software
processed over 6.5 million records and removed 2,249,698
duplicates
o 24.8+ million duplicates removed since processing began in August
2009
‒ Quality Control (QC) staff eliminated 482,528 duplicates
manually
o 922,136 duplicates removed by QC staff to date in FY2017
Cooperative cataloging

25. Knowledge sharing in Wisconsin
CATALOGING NUMBERS
Holdings in WorldCat 32,309,067
Unique records in WorldCat 733,922
Number of records cataloged 1,456,428
Number of original records added 1,208,541
As of 30 June 2016

26. • Allow library staff to catalog and transmit data to WorldCat in
their native scripts and share it with information seekers
worldwide
– Library staff can create new catalog
records in any script
– Information seekers can find the data
in native scripts
WorldCat and Unicode

27. WorldCat on a global scale
As of December 31, 2016
52% Non-English
48% English
English 148 Million
German 48 Million
French 35 Million
Spanish 18 Million
Chinese 12 Million
Japanese 10 Million
Italian 9.9 Million
Dutch 6.4 Million
Russian 5.7 Million
Swedish 4.7 Million
Polish 4.6 Million
Danish 3.5 Million
491languages represented
in WorldCat
Languages represented in WorldCat include:

28. BibNote Collection
Sets
eSerials
Holdings
Contract
Cataloging
Batchload
WorldCat
Cataloging
Partners
MARC
Subscription
Bibliographic
Snapshot
GovDoc
All your work in one place

29. • Automate electronic and print workflows in one place
• Improve quality of your catalog
• Highlight and share electronic collections
• Included in your OCLC Cataloging and Metadata
subscription
Learn more at oc.lc/getCM

30. Completing the vision
OLD NEW
BibNote WorldCat updates
Collection Sets
eSerials Holdings
GovDoc
WorldCat knowledge base collections
Batchload WorldCat data sync collection
WorldCat Cataloging
Partners
WorldCat cataloging partner collection
MARC Subscription
Bibliographic Snapshot
WorldCat query collection

31. Your Catalog
Library Community
• Automatically receive MARC record updates
WorldCat updates

32. ‒ Simplify and automate your electronic resources workflow
‒ Improve the quality of your catalog
‒ Make your e-resources easier to find, share, use
‒ Automatically maintain WorldCat holdings
• Manage your electronic resources
Knowledge base collections

33. Knowledge base collections
• Simplify and automate electronic resources workflow
• Make e-resources easier to find, share, use
• Automatically maintain WorldCat holdings and
receive bibliographic records

34. How it works
✓ updates
OCLC automatically…
✓ Maintains WorldCat holdings
✓ deletes
Register your collections in the WorldCat
knowledge base…
OCLC automatically detects…
✓ new titles
✓ Delivers MARC records and reports

35. ‒ Get new physical items to users without delay
‒ Automatically receive WorldCat MARC records that include invoice date,
net price, barcodes, custom notes, other local data
‒ Get spine and pocket label files for shelf-ready processing
• Get new print materials into circulation quickly
Cataloging partner collections

36. • 32 participating partners
Cataloging partner collections

37. ‒ Synchronize your entire catalog with WorldCat
‒ Enhance your records with information from the WorldCat master record
‒ Manage local data
• Improve resource sharing and discoverability
of your materials
Data sync collections

38. • Create customized set of MARC records
Query collections
All serials, books
or journals?
All holdings?New titles added?
Your catalog
All holdings for
a specific subject?

39. • Streamline metadata
management workflow
• Currently available to WMS
libraries and participants in
early adopter program
http://oc.lc/getRM

40. Search for more authority support

41. Facets can be added to search

42. Broad info in results screen

43. Auto suggests authorities

44. Auto suggests authorities

45. • GND (German Integrated Authority File)
• LC/NACO Authority File and Library of Congress Subjects
• Maori Subject Headings (Nga Upoko Tukutuku)
• MeSH (National Library of Medicine)
• NTA Names (Nederlandse Thesaurus van Auteursname)
Vocabularies (Authorities) supported

46. Transliteration tools
• Cyrillic is first

47. RESOURCE SHARING

48. 6,957libraries represented
worldwide
53countries
seconds
a request is filled
every
18

49. Resource sharing in Wisconsin
TOTAL RESOURCE SHARING TRANSACTIONS
ILL requests/borrows 157,653
ILL loans 110,517
As of 30 June 2016

50. Introducing Tipasa
The world’s first cloud-based
ILL management system
TM

51. Tipasa timeline
2016 2017 2018 2019 & Beyond
SEPTEMBER
Early adopters:
small academics
and publics
Small academics
and publics
Rapid users and
medium academics
Large academics
and Docline libraries

52. +

54. DISCOVERY

55. 5 wordsin library searches,
compared to…
How do library users
search?
3 wordsin Google searches
40%of clicks come from
the top search result

56. 8%
name
49%
other /
subject
43%
known
title
How do library users
search?

57. Distinct and complementary
FIRSTSEARCH WORLDCAT DISCOVERY
Primarily
used by
• Library staff and experts • Library users
Needs • Details • Simplified interface
Use cases
• What do other libraries have?
• Supports library workflows
• What does my library have?

58. Relevant items must come first
80%of clicks in top 6
40%for the #1 spot

59. Summary or abstract
Availability
Source

60. Share,
cite &
save

61. MANAGEMENT

62. Define the
group or entity
Analyze collection
data
Decision support
Allocate retention
commitments
Register retention
commitments
Weed?
Preserve?
DiscoveryAccess
Review, reconsider,
renew
Allocate retention
commitments
Register retention
commitments
Shared Print – working with groups and
using Sustainable Collections Service

63. Make your valuable, unique special collections available to
users and researchers locally and around the world through
a modern, mobile and accessible user experience
CONTENTdm®

64. CONTENTdm
®

65. Automate
borrowing and
lending
SHARE
Help your users
easily find and
get resources
DISCOVER
Streamline
circulation tasks
and reduce
training time
CIRCULATE
Save time on
selecting and
acquiring
ACQUIRE
Get more time
to catalog
unique materials
DESCRIBE ANALYZE
Support
decisions about
your collection
A complete, cloud-based system
providing all essential library functions

66. WMS Global Community &
User Group Meeting
26-28 September 2017
Dublin, Ohio
OCLC Headquarters
#WMSglobal

67. • Connexion 2.63
• ILLiad 8.7
– 8.6 support ends June 30, 2017
• EZproxy 6.2.2
– Versions prior to 5.7.44 will no longer be supported
Versions

68. New location to download OCLC
Cataloging software

70. Support and training
Support Training Implementation
~70% of service requests
closed in under 5 days
6,000 registrants
in FY2016/17
200+ service
implementations in FY2016-17

71. OCLC partnerships
• We establish partnerships with a variety of organizations – content
providers, library service providers, consumer service providers – to
help make it easier for content and collections to be discoverable and
accessible

72. Linked data requires a true cooperative effort
• We continue to explore linked data benefits for discovery, authority
control, disambiguation and more as part of our work on numerous standards
committees and community projects
• We believe that MARC will eventually be replaced by linked data
representations over time, and our findings indicate that the collaborative
will continue to benefit from MARC, BIBFRAME and Schema.org capabilities
for many years to come
• Our current efforts span a number of linked data activities, including:
For more information please see http://oc.lc/linkeddata

73. ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

74. One purpose: to
share and
accelerate library
learning and
innovation
Reports, webinars
and other work are
made openly
available
OCLC Membership and Research
Unique to OCLC
www.oclc.org/research

75. New reports

77. Small Libraries Create
Smart Spaces
Wikipedia + Public
Libraries: Better Together

78. • Build awareness – wherefore Wikipedia?
• Online training program for 500 US public library staff
• Guidance from a Wikipedian in Residence
• Learning applied in libraries; community programs
• Case studies and resources published
• From December 2016 – May 2018
oc.lc/oclc-wikilib and #oclcwikilib
Our project

79. • OCLC and Wikipedia Library furthers collaboration
• Wikipedia’s cite tool integrates WorldCat Search API to
help editors generate and add citations that link to
WorldCat resources
Just announced!

80. Thank you!
cinnamom@oclc.org
memberrelations@oclc.org