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Attached is a report on the Enhance Sharing Session that took place at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, 2010 June 25. Special thanks to my OCLC colleague Linda Gabel for her diligent note-taking. Also attached is the text of the “News From OCLC” handout that was distributed at the session. The “OCLC Policy Statement on RDA Cataloging in WorldCat for the U.S. Testing Period,” a second handout at the Enhance Session, is available online at http://www.oclc.org/us/en/rda/policy.htm.
Please note that the Enhance Participants List is available at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/quality/enhance/default.htm and most other Enhance documentation can be accessed from the “Enhance-Level Cataloging” section of the OCLC Web site’s “WorldCat and Cataloging Documentation” page at http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/.
Please take advantage of the Enhance discussion list and the information sharing opportunities it affords. If you or your colleagues have not subscribed but wish to, please to the sign-up page on the University of Washington Web site at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/enhance.
As always, thank you for all the work you do to uphold the quality standards of OCLC’s WorldCat.
July 8th, 2010
OCLC and ebrary sign agreement to add ebook records, links to WorldCat
New partnership will help libraries make ebook holdings more visible, accessible through WorldCat
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 24, 2010—OCLC and ebrary, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, are working together to add records for the ebrary ebook catalog to WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database for discovery of library resources.
ebrary’s growing selection of over 170,000 authoritative ebooks in all subject areas will be represented in WorldCat with a link to the ebrary platform. Libraries that subscribe to ebrary ebooks can have ebrary set holdings automatically for the relevant records. WorldCat Local authenticated users will then be able to link directly to ebrary ebooks from the corresponding WorldCat records. Web users searching through WorldCat.org will be able link to the ebrary platform to preview the ebooks and find out how their library might be able to access them. Libraries may choose to share records for their own theses and dissertations, special collections, and other electronic documents hosted by ebrary.
“We, at ebrary, are very pleased to have entered into this partnership with OCLC,” said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. “This is something that our customers have been requesting from us for a long time, and we are very happy to have done this. Partnerships like this are important to making information more accessible, providing better integration within library systems and improving the value of our services and our publishers’ content for libraries, which is something we will always try our best to do.”
“Libraries will welcome the addition of records representing the ebrary ebook collection to WorldCat,” said Chip Nilges, OCLC Vice President, Business Development. “OCLC continues to partner with organizations to improve the ability of WorldCat to point to all types of collections, such as Google Books, the HathiTrust Digital Library, database providers and ebook providers such as ebrary. We will continue to work with partners to maximize the visibility and value of libraries’ full collections.”
To find out more about ebook and econtent partnerships with OCLC, contact Bill Carney, OCLC Content Manager, at carneyb@oclc.org.
About ebrary
ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 425 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers content services—DASH! (do-it-yourself), Software as a Service (SaaS) and licensed—for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online. All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools™, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customer’s choice, extending content value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies. Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA. More information about ebrary is at www.ebrary.com.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners.
June 25th, 2010
Connexion client 2.20 is released!
Version 2.20 is a 32-bit and 64-bit compatible version of Connexion client which will work with 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The only change in this version is the addition of 64-bit compatibility; only users who want to run Connexion client under 64-bit versions of Windows need to upgrade to this version. OCLC will continue to support Connexion client 2.10 for all other users.
Connexion client is the Windows-based interface to Connexion. This announcement does not impact the Connexion browser, which is the Web-based interface to Connexion.
Information about Connexion client and a link to download the software is here:
http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/recent.htm
View the upgrade instructions here:
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/client/gettingstarted/gettingstarted/#update_client.fm
June 21st, 2010
OCLC is pleased to announce that Susan Bach Books is now an active WorldCat Selection partner!
Susan Bach Books, located in Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1949 by a linguist and book dealer from Europe and is the oldest existing book dealing firm in the country. As a distributor of all Brazilian university and academic presses, they have a large stock of out-of print books and periodicals and a fine collection of Rare Books. Their representatives are in all regions of Brazil and have arrangements with a few book dealers from Spanish-speaking neighboring countries which enable them to supply some selected titles from Latin America. They provide full library services of Brazilian materials in all subjects and their services include: approval plans, standing orders, serial subscriptions, new-titles bulletins, monographic ordering, full cataloging and minimal level records, and shelf- ready processing.
For more information about Susan Bach Books, please see: http://www.sbachbooks.com.br/.
For more information about WorldCat Selection, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection.
For a complete list of WorldCat Selection partners, both current and forthcoming, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection/partners.
June 21st, 2010
New record use policy ‘WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative’ — effective August 1
Community feedback shaped new policy
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 21, 2010—A new WorldCat record use policy, developed by a Record Use Policy Council and informed by community input, has been approved by the OCLC Board of Trustees. WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative will be effective August 1, 2010.
The new policy outlines the rights and responsibilities associated with stewardship of the WorldCat bibliographic and holdings database by and for the OCLC cooperative, including the use and exchange of OCLC member-contributed data comprising WorldCat.
The policy was drafted by the Record Use Policy Council, a group of 12 library leaders charged by the OCLC Board of Trustees to craft a replacement for the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records, which was developed in 1987.
In April 2010, the Record Use Policy Council submitted to the library community and to the OCLC Board a draft policy that began a two-month period of community review and discussion. More than 275 comments were gathered via e-mail, phone, meetings and letters, in an online forum, and by monitoring blogs, listservs, and Twitter. At the end of May, community input was incorporated and a policy statement was submitted to the OCLC Board, which approved the revised document during its June meeting.
“We decided to emphasize a code of good practice for members of the cooperative, based on shared values, trust and reciprocity,” said Jennifer Younger, Co-Chair of the Record Use Policy Council, President-Elect, OCLC Global Council and Chair, Board of Directors, Catholic Research Resources Alliance. “The focus of the new policy is on member rights and responsibilities—instead of data ownership issues, detailed provisions or restrictions—with the general aim of fostering innovation in our ever-changing information landscape.”
The policy is based on the premise that OCLC members value WorldCat as a comprehensive, timely, and accurate reflection of the consolidated holdings of those members. The policy’s intent is to encourage the widespread use of WorldCat bibliographic data while also supporting the ongoing and long-term sustainability and utility of WorldCat and of WorldCat-based services such as resource sharing, cataloging, and discovery.
“The new policy supports library choice in a hybrid environment of metadata types and content standards,” said Barbara Gubbin, Co-Chair of the Record Use Policy Council and Director, Jacksonville (Florida) Public Library. “It recognizes as essential the need for OCLC members to share and reuse their data with many partners, across many systems, sites, and applications.”
The Record Use Policy Council was named in September 2009 to develop this new policy by providing a broad and inclusive set of perspectives and experiences, determining the current and future information needs of the library community, and gathering and including feedback from the library community.
“We heard from many OCLC members, and we listened,” said Larry Alford, Chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees and Dean of University Libraries, Temple University. “This process was an exercise in governance of the collaborative by its members. The result is a new record use policy that will serve the cooperative well as we continue to nurture and grow WorldCat while providing libraries with the flexibility they need to use WorldCat derived data in innovative ways in a rapidly changing information environment.”
Mr. Alford acknowledged the work of the Record Use Policy Council. “These global library leaders spent many months grappling with complex issues and listening to library community input,” said Mr. Alford. “OCLC members worldwide owe this dedicated group a deep debt of gratitude for their time and hard work.”
The new policy will become effective August 1, 2010, replacing the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records. Because the data sharing environment is constantly and rapidly evolving, this new policy will be regularly reviewed to ensure its continued timeliness.
To view the new policy, including a Frequently Asked Questions document and a comparison between the draft submitted for community review and the final document, visit www.oclc.org/worldcat/recorduse/.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or servicemarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or servicemarks of their respective owners.
June 21st, 2010
OCLC is pleased to announce that Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta is now an active WorldCat Selection partner!
Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta is one of the leading Spanish suppliers of bibliographical material for institutional and scientific libraries. They have been providing Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American books and non-print materials to specific libraries all over the world for many decades. The most important reasons behind the successful cooperation that they have built on with their clients are their long experience (since 1924) in the market of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American books and their highly qualified staff, whose members are trained to meet the specific needs of the various libraries. Their prime service is the approval plan. Over the course of many years and in cooperation with highly specialized libraries, Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta have developed the necessary tools in order to offer the best selection of bibliographic material for any defined profile. Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta has earned itself an outstanding reputation in the Anglo-Saxon and European world for the quality of its blanket orders.
For more information about Iberbook Sánchez-Cuesta, please see: http://www.ibersaculib.com/.
For more information about WorldCat Selection, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection.
For a complete list of WorldCat Selection partners, both current and forthcoming, please see: http://www.oclc.org/selection/partners.
June 16th, 2010
Are you planning to attend the American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C. this month?
If so, please plan to join OCLC for programs about classification, cataloging and metadata, acquisitions and technical services for your library.
Register now to reserve your spot at these and other OCLC sessions at ALA.
Friday, June 25
Enhance Sharing Session
This interactive session is a forum for Q&A and for the exchange of information concerning OCLC’s Enhance program and Expert Community.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Washington Convention Center, Room 102A
Saturday, June 26
Dewey Update Breakfast: News and Research
Start your day with breakfast and details about what’s new with Dewey and the research that supports it.
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m., Grand Hyatt Washington, Independence Rooms B-C
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Join speakers Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic, The University of Auckland Library and Ted Fons, OCLC, for a lively discussion around the theme, “Synchronization and syndication of library data.”
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m., Washington Convention Center, Room 145B
WorldCat Selection Users Group Meeting
Hear from Dawn Waller, University of Virginia, and Carolyn Morris, Coutts, about the University of Virginia’s implementation of WorldCat Selection, and David Whitehair, OCLC, about an OCLC update.
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m., Washington Convention Center, Room 142
Monday, June 28
Cataloging Alchemy: Making Your Data Work Harder
Join OCLC staff Glenn Patton, Rich Greene and Jean Godby for a cataloging update and discussion on tools that help WorldCat data work harder for you, and lay a foundation for more effective use of bibliographic data on the Web.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon, Grand Hyatt Washington, Constitution Rooms C-E
June 14th, 2010
The National Diet Library of Japan to add records to WorldCat
OCLC and Japan’s National Diet Library agree to cooperative effort to make 5 million records from Japanese national bibliography more visible through WorldCat
DUBLIN, Ohio, June 10, 2010—OCLC and the National Diet Library (NDL) have signed an agreement to work cooperatively to make more than 5 million records from NDL more visible and accessible to scholars and researchers worldwide through WorldCat.
In the agreement, NDL and OCLC state their intent “to cooperate for the benefit of libraries, library patrons and end users of information services.”
“We at OCLC are honored to work with the National Diet Library to make the official national bibliography of Japan available in the WorldCat database,” said Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO. “This partnership will add significant value for the global community of Japanese language readers and scholars.”
“The National Diet Library values its cooperation with OCLC,” said Makoto Nagao, Librarian of the NDL. “Through WorldCat, our records from the Japanese National Bibliography will be of great benefit to global users. We are pleased to share Japanese cultural resources on a worldwide scale.”
The National Diet Library has been using WorldCat for current cataloging of Western languages materials since 2007. This new agreement provides for the contribution of the complete contents of the JAPAN/MARC database, the official national bibliography of Japan, to WorldCat on a regular basis.
NDL and OCLC will work together to add the 5 million records to the WorldCat database. Once records are added to WorldCat, they are more visible and accessible to Web users worldwide through WorldCat.org, the destination for search and discovery of library materials on the Web.
Kinokuniya Company Ltd., OCLC’s distributor in Japan for 24 years, helped to facilitate this agreement.
WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive database of library materials. Updated in libraries and by library professionals around the world at a rate of nearly one new record every second, WorldCat comprises more than 180 million bibliographic records and holdings contributed by thousands of libraries.
Thirty-five national libraries are adding digital images, national files and bibliographies to WorldCat by both batchloading records and online contribution.
Watch WorldCat grow in real time at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/newgrow.htm.
About National Diet Library
Established in 1948, the National Diet Library has achieved many results over some 60 years as an organization assisting the legislative activities of the National Diet and as the sole national library of the country. As the only depository library in Japan, the NDL acquires all materials published in Japan, preserves them as national cultural heritage, and provides various types of bibliographic data. NDL-OPAC, the online catalog system, is available on the Web at http://opac.ndl.go.jp/index_e.html. The NDL is also developing the digital library in which digital materials are available directly from the NDL website. For more information, visit http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world’s richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks and/or servicemarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks and/or service marks of their respective owners.
June 10th, 2010
This is to inform you that the WorldCat Collection Analysis Quarterly Snapshot will be pulled the week of June 21, 2010. We anticipate its release near the end of July 2010.
June 4th, 2010
Previously OCLC announced a release of the new version of Connexion client for late 2010 or early 2011.
OCLC has modified plans, and now will release two versions of Connexion client.
Connexion client 2.20 – Version 2.20 will be a 32-bit and 64-bit compatible version of Connexion client which will work with 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The only change in this version will be the addition of 64-bit compatibility; only users who want to run Connexion client under 64-bit versions of Windows need to upgrade to this version. OCLC will continue to support Connexion client 2.10 for all other users. OCLC expects to release Connexion client 2.20 in June or July 2010.
Connexion client 2.30 – Version 2.30 will include enhancements to the existing functionality. OCLC has not finalized the details of what changes will be included, but more information will be announced at a later time. All Connexion client users will be required to upgrade to version 2.30 after it is released. OCLC will determine the end of life date for versions 2.10 and 2.20 when version 2.30 is released. OCLC expects to release Connexion client 2.30 in late 2010 or early 2011.
Connexion client is the Windows-based interface to Connexion. This announcement does not impact the Connexion browser, which is the Web-based interface to Connexion.
May 24th, 2010
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