The World of WorldCat
Rosanna Ramacciotti Territory Development Director
OCLC is a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs.
OCLC : a non for profit organization, governed by member libraries
Increase access to worldwide information
Reduce costs for libraries
16.184 Member Libraries
171 countries
16.184 libraries in 171 countries
10.870 3.617
1.697
OCLC Governance
~16,200
institutions
Members
3
councils
Regional Councils
48 delegates,
3 officers
Global Council
15
trustees
Board of Trustees
Your words have huge
meaning to us
EMEA Regional Council Meeting
Florence, February 2015
THE ADVANTAGES OF
MEMBERSHIP – ACHIEVING MORE
TOGETHER
Supporting the
profession
OCLC Research
• Community Research
• Enhance OCLC’s
engagement with
members
• Provide advanced
development,
technical support and
custom analysis
Leading library-centred research
THE WORLD OF WORLDCAT - THE
MEANING OF THE OCLC GLOBAL
DATA NETWORK
A shared data network that connects people to
knowledge through the world’s libraries and their
collections.
A platform for library services that enables libraries to
share data, work and resources to save money and
deliver value to their users.
339 million records
2.2 billion holdings
43 million digital items
16 million eBooks
Books
261 million E-books
16 million
Serials
12.4 million Visual materials
13 million Musical scores
7.6 million
Maps
4.7 million
Just a few of
the dozens of
types of
content:
Comprehensive and global
English: 131 million
German: 65 million
French: 40 million
Spanish: 16 million
Chinese: 10 million
Italian: 8.2 million
Dutch: 5.8 million
Japanese: 9.7 million
Russian: 4.5 million
Some of the 484 languages represented…
Comprehensive and global
Polish: 4.1 million
Danish: 3.1 million
Latin: 4.4 million
Contributions by National Libraries
Numbers as of June 2015
Holdings in WorldCat 19,536,392
Unique records in WorldCat 419,271
Number of records cataloged 665,678
Number of original records added 589,822
Total transactions for FY2015
ILL Requests/Borrows 88,295
ILL Loans 104,542
Foundation for everything
electronic
digital
Global Data Network
global metadata - turn table
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
Metadata Management
Global community manages metadata together
Thousands Manual cataloging
by thousands of
libraries
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
Thousands
Synchronization
with dozens of
national & regional
union catalogs
National Libraries*
etc.
Metadata Ingest & Enrichment
Content Partners
OCLC
Metadata
Ingest &
Enrichment
Aggregate metadata and just load once
etc.
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
Metadata Syndication
Make libraries visible in the Web
OCLC
Metadata
Syndication
End User Partner etc.
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
WorldShare Platform
global metadata
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
Metadata-
API
Knowledge Base
-API Discovery-
API
Ressource Sharing-
API
(and many more…)
Cloud Architecture
Global access to global metadata
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
WorldShare Applications
Metadata
Management
Search/
Discovery ILL
Global applications on top of global metadata
global metadata
Bib Records
Articles
(Central Index)
Authorities
Knowledge
Base Licenses Book & Journal
Vendors
Holdings
Libraries
WorldShare Management Services
Metadata
Management
Search/
Discovery ILL
Acquisition
Reports
License
Manager Circulation
Digital
Collections Library specific data
(multi tenant)
Library Management Applications
global metadata
Global applications on top of global metadata
Resource
Sharing
Metadata End User Management
Four library service lines
WorldShare Management Services (WMS)
A cloud-based library management system
Worldwide WMS update
OCLC Region Signed live
Americas (US, Canada, Latin America) 349 319
ANZ (Australia, New Zealand) 35 26
EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) 17 6
Total Worldwide 401 351 87%
WMS: Current customers (worldwide)
82%
12%
4%
1% 1%
Library Types
Academic
Special
Government
Public
School
51%
17%
14%
10%
2% 2% 2% 2% 4 yr- Private
Community
4 yr- Public
Theological
Technical
Research
Law
Medical
Academics
SCS Mission
To help libraries manage and share
print monographs
COMMERCIAL IN
CONFIDENCE
Helping
Libraries
Manage and
Share Print
Monographs
• The GreenGlass solution of SCS allows to analyze the
data and give decision support – the first part of the
workflow circle
• SCS is now an integral
part of OCLC
• Leverages existing
OCLC Research on
the ‘collective collection’
In January 2015 OCLC acquired
Sustainable Collection Services