OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Meeting

The Libraries Australia/ OCLC Relationship

Anne HornUniversity LibrarianDeakin University

15 April 2010

What day/month is this? What is missing?

1863 The Battle of Gettysburg begins

1916 WWI First day on the Somme

1978 The Northern Territory is granted self-government

1979 Sony introduces the Walkman

1997 Hong Kong is handed back to Chinese authorities

2007 Libraries Australia and OCLC sign Collaborative Services Agreement

July 1

History of the relationship with OCLC

Libraries Australia

1981 - 1999 ABN

OCLC

Small number of Australian member libraries

2005 - 2007 NLA and OCLC discussed “federated WorldCat” concept

2005 - Libraries Australia

1999 - 2005 Kinetica

National Library Agreement with OCLC – commenced July 2007

Essence of this new relationship

The Australian resource sharing network retains its independence

Protecting Australian library interests in maintenance of a viable National Bibliographic Database and Libraries Australia service

Providing unlimited search and cataloguing access

Greater exposure of the collections of Australian libraries internationally

Supporting the Vision

Libraries Australia

• Supports collaboration between member libraries (over 1,000)

• An essential pillar of the national information architecture

OCLC

• The world’s libraries. Connected.

72,000 libraries

171 countries

• Connecting more libraries and more records through web technology, amplifying the power of library cooperation

Collaborative Services Agreement

national representation in OCLC’s Regional and Global Councils

searches of WorldCat through Libraries Australia now at 1.3m per year

data synchronisation with WorldCat

Collaborative Services Agreement

support for CBS (catalogue utility) software

support for VDX (interlibrary loan) software

local support for global services such as collection analysis and WorldCat Registry

benefit from OCLC research and development and service improvements

CataloguingCBS cataloguing client software Release 3.3.8.6 (March 2010)

CBS v5.0 cataloguing software in test - will incorporate the CBS Job Manager

we are very keen to see more widespread adoption of SRU Record Update with local systems

Document DeliveryILL activity still expanding through LADD

ISO ILL Protocol interoperability testing with local systems continues at high rate – see LAAC paper Libraries Australia achievements [LAAC/2010/1/2]

VDX software: Release 4.1.2 (April 2010)– User interface improvements including streamlined request entry– Configurable ILL actions and work queues

Discussions commenced on ILL network interconnection – see LAAC paper WorldCat Resource Sharing [LAAC/2010/1/7]

Source www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/laac/papers.html

Complementary servicesWorldCat Collection Analysis

- each analysis can be done against two-to-ten libraries (ie., OCLC symbols) with peer collections

- OCLC has predefined some peer groups, but is also happy to take requests

WorldCat Registry – data exchanged with the Australian Libraries Gateway periodically

WorldCat FAQ at www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/FAQarchive.html#oclc

Thank You

Questions?