The OCLC-AMICAL RESPOND project:

Leveraging WorldCat to connect international American

universities

AMICAL interest in resource sharing confirmed in member surveys 2004: most common interest area for

cooperation 2006: “success” includes resource sharing

What is resource sharing? Sharing of content that has been collected

by institutions

Percentage of collection in English

Significant collections in non-English languages

Language Number of AMICAL Libraries

French 6

Arabic 5

German 3

Russian 3

Greek 2

Italian 2

Hungarian 1

Kyrgyz 1

Spanish 1

Elements of RESPOND1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat3. AMICAL union catalog4. WorldCat Resource Sharing5. Rebuilding local catalogs6. Collection Analysis

RESPOND: Access to OCLC global network Facilitating resource sharing within

AMICAL Broadening awareness of AMICAL library

holdings

Discovery of AMICAL holdings via Open WorldCat

Discovery of AMICAL holdings via Open WorldCat

Loading local records into WorldCat Holdings; Bib records unique in AMICALcat

Bib records unique in WorldCat

Current Status Holdings in WorldCat: 730,000 Pilot:

Loading local records into WorldCat Search interface to WorldCat AMICAL union catalog WorldCat Resource Sharing Rebuilding local catalogs Collection Analysis

Best practices in ILL

ConceptualStructuralProcedural(from Leon, DeWeese, Kochan, Peterson-Lugo & Zillig, 2003)

RESPOND Participants

WorldCatConsolidated index of the holdings of

thousands of libraries, worldwide

88 million bibliographic records Over 1 billion item locations Created through the cooperative

contributions of member libraries Data forms the basis for wide variety of

OCLC’s products and services

Elements of RESPOND1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat3. WorldCat Resource Sharing4. Building our local catalogs from

WorldCat records5. AMICAL union catalog6. Collection Analysis

Elements of RESPOND1. Loading local records into WorldCat 2. Search interface to WorldCat3. WorldCat Resource Sharing4. Building our local catalogs from

WorldCat records5. AMICAL union catalog6. Collection Analysis

AMICALcat:The AMICAL Group Catalog

Benefits and Challenges

Benefits…Allows wider range of possibilities for

resource sharing Consolidating workflow Increasing performance Simplifying union catalog creation Reflection on best practices

Best practices in ILL

ConceptualStructuralProcedural(from Leon, DeWeese, Kochan, Peterson-Lugo & Zillig, 2003)

Challenges… Large number of new and unfamiliar tools

and workflows Time and coordination necessary for

inclusion of records in WorldCat Comprehensively Successfully

Diversity of languages and scripts Coordinating with OCLC and with each

other

Map of RESPOND Participants