An Update on OCLC Asia Pacific

OCLC CJK Users Group Meeting

San Diego, CA

March 6, 2004

Andrew H. WangExecutive DirectorOCLC Asia Pacific

Building an Information Network and a People Network

OCLC Offices of Regional Responsibilities The Americas

The U.S.A. OCLC Canada Latin America and the Caribbean

OCLC | PICA OCLC Europe and the South Africa OCLC Middle East and the North Africa

OCLC Asia Pacific

Objectives

Revisit the rationale for re-evaluating jobs and building a new exempt pay structure at OCLC

Develop a general understanding of job evaluation

Review the job evaluation process at OCLC

Understand your important role in providing “quality assurance” in the job evaluation process

Update project time lineS e r v e s 2 ,5 0 0 I n s t i t u t i o n s i n A s ia a n d th e P a c i f i c R e g i o n

Growth – OCLC Users in Asia Pacific

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124% growth rate in 4 years, 2000-2004

OCLC Users in Asia and the Pacific Region

1. China (Mainland) 1,012 institutions2. Japan 515 institutions3. Korea 329 institutions4. Taiwan 194 institutions5. Australia 169 institutions6. Singapore 98 institutions7. New Zealand 43 institutions8. Thailand 28 institutions9. Hong Kong 26 institutions

10. Malaysia 17 institutions11. India 16 institutions12. Philippines 4 institutions13. Macau 2 institutions14. Pakistan 2 institutions15. Mauritius 1 institution16. Micronesia 1 institution

(Users Profiled – January 2004)

OCLC Membership Categories

OCLC Governing Members Libraries that make a contractual commitment to catalog ALL

newly acquired materials on WorldCat The key is contribution of holding symbol and original records

OCLC Members Libraries that catalog SOME of their newly acquired materials on

WorldCat Libraries that lend materials (ILL suppliers) to other OCLC users

OCLC Participants Libraries that choose not to contribute through cooperative

cataloging and/or ILL, but wish to use other OCLC services

OCLC Members Council Delegates – OCLC Asia Pacific (Term: 2001-2004) Ms. Shirley Leung – Asia Pacific Delegate

University Librarian

Hong Kong Baptist University

Mr. Cheng Huanwen – China Delegate

Professor and University Librarian

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Mr. Michitaro Urakawa – Japan Delegate

Director of the Library

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

China (Mainland) China Academic Library Information System (CALIS)

FirstSearch China Library Consortium (CLC)

netLibrary eBooks China National Publications Import & Export Corporation

(CNPIEC) ECO (eJournals) MARC records supply

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

Japan National Institute of Informatics (NII – NACSIS)

Cataloging System-to-system link for ILL

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

Korea Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS)

Cataloging and union catalog FirstSearch ECO (eJournals) netLibrary eBooks

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

Singapore Singapore Integrated Library Automation Service (SILAS)

Cataloging and union catalog

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia

Taiwan Consortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan

(CONCERT) FirstSearch

Taiwan E-Books NetWork (TEBNET) netLibrary eBooks

Major Contributors in Asia – MARC Records of Chinese Information Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Baptist University

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

University of Hong Kong

Major Contributor in Asia – MARC Records of Japanese Information Waseda University

Agreement of 1993 – 330,000 records

Agreement of 1998 – 300,000 records

Agreement of 2003 – 90,000 records

plus 2,500 records monthly

Opportunities – MARC Records of Korean Information

National Central Library of Korea

Opportunities – Chinese-Language Information

Joint University Library Advisory Committee (JULAC)

HKCAN (Hong Kong Chinese Authority – Names)

Shanghai Library

Index to Journals Published in China

Shenzhen Library

Batchload over 1 million records of 23 institutions

Opportunities – Chinese-Language Information

National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan

Dissertations and Thesis

Index to Newspaper Articles

The End . . .

Thank you!

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