OCLC continues to introduce new products and services and to support innovative research and library initiatives. Attend this session to hear all about the newest OCLC activities. Presented by Christa Burns at the Sirsi Midwest Users' Group Annual Conference - July 25, 2008.

1. Sirsi Midwest Users’ Group Annual Conference July 25, 2008 Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Coordinator, NEBASE What’s New at OCLC?

2. The OCLC Cooperative 69,826 libraries in 112 countries 1,355 55,284 882 5,639 4,253 1,015 320 1,080

3. 2007-2008 OCLC Members Council Executive Committee

6. New OCLC governance structure Regional Council Regional Council Regional Council Global Council Board of Trustees Members Members Members

7. US Service Providers OCLC Western (Including Alaska and Hawaii) Amigos Library Services, Inc. BCR NEBASE MINITEX BCR WILS INCOLSA MLC OHIONET NELINET NyLink PALINET OCLC Eastern (DC, MD, VA) SOLINET ILLINET FEDLINK (All U.S. Federal Libraries) MLNC CLC BLC

12. OCLC Research Systems and service architecture Knowledge organization Interoperability Collection and User analysis Content management

13. Virtual International Authority File

15. WorldMap

16. OCLC ResearchWorks

20. WorldCat at April 1, 2008 84.1m Books 4.1m Serials 3.1m Visual materials 1.5m Maps 100 million records 1.14 billion holdings 3.1m Sound recordings 2.2m Scores .7m Computer files

25. Multilingual WorldCat Percentage of non-English Records 1998 36% 2008 50 ¼ %

28. Dewey Decimal Classfication

30. Harvest Metadata from Digital Content Management Systems Metadata Content management server The Web End users retrieve the information they need

31. Digital Archive

39. Participating materials vendor partners

40. IBERBOOK SÁNCHEZ CUESTA, S.A. Coming soon…

41. WorldCat.org

44. WorldCat Lists

45. WorldCat Identities

46. WorldCat: Facebook Widget

49. WorldCat Local at UCLA Library

50. Limit search to UCLA Library

51. Limit search to UC libraries

52. Search libraries worldwide