Sessieronde World Cat Janet Lees OCLC PICA

Sessieronde: World. Cat Janet Lees OCLC PICA

Agenda • • • World. Cat overview European library holdings in World. Cat Open. World. Cat and World. Cat. org Future Directions Some fun things to look at 2

World. Cat Overview • OCLC Union Catalog(ue) – global scope but not global coverage. US holdings dominate. • 68 million records, 1 billion holdings • All types of materials – print, maps, visual, electronic, serials, all date ranges • All languages – Unicode support includes nonroman scripts • Platform for cataloguing, resource sharing, reference, collection analysis • Several interfaces – Connexion, Z 39. 50, First. Search, World. Cat. org 3

OCLC PICA contribution to World. Cat • 35. 5 million European holdings • Contribution via online cataloguing, retrospective conversion, batchloading • Major OCLC PICA contributors – UK, Scandinavia, South Africa, France (pre-2002) • Batchloaded files: BL, Czech National Bibliography, GGC, Link. UK, Helsinki University, NUKAT, Danish National Library of Education • Major ILL users: BLDSC, South Africa, Scandinavia • Loading soon: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, GBV 4

Contribution fulfills OCLC Membership OCLC PICA delegation to OCLC Members Council • OCLC Members Council (66 delegates) meets 3 times pa at OCLC Dublin • Delegates elected through annual process for 3 year term • Current OCLC PICA delegation: David Bradbury (UK); Berndt Dugall (D); Poul Erlandsen (DK); Colin Harris (UK); Alex Klugkist (NL); Ariette Skolnik (NL); Ellen Tise (SA) • OCLC PICA delegation also meets with OCLC PICA Board 5

Contribution provides foundation for other OCLC Services eg. World. Cat Collection Analysis Features • Analyze collection age & subject content • Compare collection to other OCLC member libraries to identify overlap and uniqueness • Analyze group collections for uniqueness & overlap for cooperative collection development 6

UK Public Library group analysis 7

Open World. Cat – making the library visible in search engines • 2004 pilot with Google and Yahoo now extended to further partners • Partners harvest limited fields in OCLC World. Cat records • Search engine displays results as “Find in a Library” • Link to library holdings • Deep linking to OPAC and full text 8

Open World. Cat : meeting the user where the user is Find in a Library • • • 84% use search engines to begin information search Only 1% begin an information search on a library web site Search engines use achieves high satisfaction rates People trust what they find on search engines Search engines are a better ‘life style’ fit than physical libraries ‘Self serve’ is a growing trend findings from “Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources : a report to the OCLC Membership” OCLC, 2005 9

Current Partners 10

Open World. Cat-enabled Web tools • Yahoo! Toolbar with World. Cat searching • Google Toolbar Auto. Link • Fire. Fox search extensions 11

Start with an Internet search … 12

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Library Info 18

Ask a Librarian 19

Other Editions 20

Reviews 21

Tables of Contents 22

Purchase options 23

Google Scholar 24

Feedback 25

European Pilot • July – August 2006 • Dutch and UK participants • Evaluated the interface translation, postcode data and “buy it” options • Ranked features • Provided advice on place in library workflow 26

Pilot - Partner sites used 27

Pilot – Interface Translation 28

Pilot - Postal code / Location 29

Pilot - link to Amazon. co. uk Clicks and orders every day during the pilot Books Music DVD Electronics Kitchen & House 380 20 13 6 2 30

World. Cat. org • OCLC’s own destination portal • • • builds on Open World. Cat access to all World. Cat records holdings of subscribing libraries only OWC interface translations (inc Dutch) initial beta release August 2006 31

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World. Cat. org 1. 0 – brief results 33

World. Cat. org – library locations 34

World. Cat. org – local availability 35

World. Cat. org 1. 0 – brief results 36

World. Cat. org 1. 0 – tools 37

World. Cat. org 1. 0 – registration 38

World. Cat. org - where next? • Add more European holdings • Add more “get it” options • Integrate with European resource sharing services • Add payment options • Add authentication and other resolvers • Add more personalisation and social features 39

World. Cat Future Directions • Add more non-US union and national catalogues (particularly non roman scripts) • Add more full text and digital content • Improve holdings level for e-serials • Merge with RLG Union Catalog (rich in nonroman scripts esp Arabic and Hebrew, archival materials and special collections) • Integrate into OCLC PICA services 40

Finally some fun things ……. . 41

Office of Research prototypes… 42

World. Cat statistics 43

Watch World. Cat grow ……. . 44