General News

IFLA/OCLC Fellows for 2007 Named

OCLC, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), the American Theological Library Association, and OCLC PICA announced the IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellows for 2007 at a news conference during the IFLA World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council in Seoul, Republic of Korea during August 2006. The 2007 Fellows are: Mr. Kodjo Elolo Atiso, Librarian, Animal Research Institute, Achimota, Ghana; Mrs. Alicia Chavarria Esguerra, Instructor/Librarian, Bulacan State University, City of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines; Mrs. Pauline Nicholas, Information Specialist, Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; Mrs. Elisangela Alves Silva, Information Assistant, Abrinq Foundation for the Rights of Children and Adolescents, São Paulo, Brazil; Ms. Nevena Tomić, Library Manager, Cultural Centre "Students' City," Belgrade, Serbia. The IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program supports library and information science professionals from countries with developing economies. The Fellowship program provides advanced continuing education and exposure to a broad range of issues in information technologies, library operations and global cooperative librarianship. Since its inception in 2001, the program has welcomed 28 librarians and information science professionals from 21 nations. During the 2007 program, which will run from April 27 through June 1, the Fellows will participate in a five-week program of lectures, seminars, and mentoring. Four weeks will be based at OCLC's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, USA, and one week will be based at OCLC PICA in Leiden, Netherlands. Topics and issues will include information technologies and their impact on libraries, library operations and management, and global cooperative librarianship. The Fellows will visit selected North American and European libraries, library organizations, and cultural heritage institutions, which will provide an opportunity for them to meet leading practitioners and discuss real-world solutions to the challenges facing libraries today. By observing an OCLC Members Council meeting, the Fellows gain insight into issues affecting global library cooperation and are exposed to the governance of a global library cooperative. Fellows turn their learning and experiences into specific professional development plans that guide their continued growth as well as their personal contributions to their home institutions and country of origin.

OCLC Acquires DiMeMa

OCLC has acquired DiMeMa (Digital Media Management), the organization that developed and supports CONTENTdm, the leading digital management software for libraries distributed by OCLC. CONTENTdm software offers a complete set of tools to store, manage, and deliver digital collections such as historical documents, photos, newspapers, audio, and video on the Web. OCLC has been the exclusive distributor of CONTENTdm software to libraries, cultural heritage organizations, and other nonprofit organizations since 2002. Greg Zick, founder of DiMeMa and former Professor at the University of Washington, will be Vice President of OCLC Digital Services, and will report to Phyllis B. Spies, Vice President, OCLC Collection Management Services. The DiMeMa staff of 11 will maintain its office in Seattle, Washington. CONTENTdm was developed while Dr. Zick and a team of programmers were conducting research into optimal digital image database technologies in the Center for Information Systems Optimization (CISO) at the University of Washington. At the time, special collections of the University of Washington Libraries were stored in a variety of forms and formats, and demand was building to provide flexible online access to these resources. The Libraries began to use the CISO Lab software for fast, full-featured access and management of the collections. After extensive field testing, the products resulting from these research and development activities were made available to organizations outside the University. DiMeMa Inc. was formed in 2001 to support the growing CONTENTdm user community and to focus on accelerated research and product development. The addition of DiMeMa staff will also help the RLG-Programs division and OCLC Research in their efforts to explore the applications of digitization in the library and museum communities. The newly-organized Digital Services Division will integrate both OCLC and RLG digital services into the OCLC portfolio. Digital Services staff, including the DiMeMa staff, will collaborate closely with RLG-Programs staff on shared issues of curation, preservation and presentation of digital resources. CONTENTdm has evolved into a powerful digital collection management solution that offers scalable tools for archiving collections of any size. Today more than 300 libraries and other cultural heritage organizations license CONTENTdm software to manage more than 2,500 digital collections. Metadata for these digital collections can be added to WorldCat. Once in WorldCat, these collection items can be found by searching the database, or searching the Web. Items in WorldCat can now be discovered through WorldCat.org, a new search site that also offers a downloadable search box, and through popular search engines like Google and Yahoo! as part of the OCLC Open WorldCat program.

WorldCat.org Offers Search Access to Libraries' Collections

Web users can now search the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide through WorldCat.org, a site that offers a downloadable search box to allow access to the world's largest database and resource for discovery of materials held in libraries. The search box can be downloaded from the WorldCat.org site to library Web sites, museum sites, genealogy sites, book club sites, blogs, or any other site where Web searchers would benefit from access to the collections of the world's libraries. WorldCat connects libraries of all types and sizes, from giant research libraries to small public libraries around the world. It enables people to find what they're looking for in library collections irrespective of where they are located. As the world's largest computerized library catalog, WorldCat includes not only entries from large institutions such as the Library of Congress, the British Library, the National Library of Finland, and Singapore National Library, but also from small public libraries, art museums, and historical societies. WorldCat contains descriptions of library materials and their locations. The database provides access to the electronic full text of some articles and books as well as images and sound recordings. It spans 4,000 years of recorded knowledge. Every 10 seconds a library adds a new record to WorldCat. Today, WorldCat contains more than 70 million entries for books and other materials and more than 1 billion location listings for these materials in libraries around the world. Since 2003, WorldCat records have been made available to popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo! through the OCLC Open WorldCat program, which is intended to make information from libraries more visible on the Web. WorldCat.org, which is now available in beta form, makes the entire WorldCat database available to anyone interested in searching just the content of libraries. Through WorldCat.org, users can access other services from some participating libraries such as interlibrary loan or online reference help from library professionals. Try WorldCat.org from the site: http://www.worldcat.org/. Find out more about the downloadable search box: http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.affiliate.GetSearchBox.

Frederick G. Kilgour, Founder of OCLC, Dies at 92

Frederick G. Kilgour, a librarian and educator who created an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries, died on 2006 July 31. He was 92 years old and had lived since 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Kilgour is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in 20th-century librarianship for using computer networks to increase access to information in libraries around the world. He was among the earliest proponents of adapting computer technology to library processes. At the dawn of library automation in the early 1970's, he founded OCLC and led the creation of a library network that today links 55,000 institutions in 110 countries.

PREMIS Data Dictionary Wins Award

The PREMIS Data Dictionary has won the 2006 Society of American Archivists' Preservation Publication Award. The report was recognized "for writing of superior excellence and usefulness, which advances the theory or practice of preservation in archival institutions." The SAA Preservation Publication Award recognizes an outstanding preservation-related work of relevance to the archives community, which is published in North America and contributes to the advancement of the theory and practice of preservation in archives institutions. It was presented 2006 August 4 at the SAA Annual Meeting, in Washington, D.C. The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies Working Group, convened by OCLC and RLG, initially developed the PREMIS data dictionary as a specification with the goal of creating an implementable set of core preservation metadata elements, with broad applicability within the digital preservation community. One of the nominators commented that the report "is without a doubt the most significant publication on any aspect of preservation in the year 2005. The work is intellectually sophisticated, groundbreaking, truly collaborative and international in scope and of great significance for the archival preservation community." The joint working group won the 2005 Digital Preservation Award, sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition in recognition of "leadership and advancement in digital preservation."

Collections and Technical Services

Connexion Enhancements Installed August 2006

Among the Connexion enhancements installed on 2006 August 13 were:

• Export files are saved in a place that allows them to be stored for 30 days. The 30 day count does not start until a file is downloaded.
• If your institution has more than one cataloging authorization, you can choose to collect exported records into a single file or into separate files by authorization number.
• You can enter information in subfields $k and $t of field 852 on the edit record screen.
• You can enter information in field 526 on the record edit screen.
• Your search screen displays immediately after a successful Save to Catalog command.

OCLC Interim Support for ISBN 13

A new international standard is expanding the current 10-digit ISBN to a 13-digit ISBN. The new ISBN will consist of 13 digits: the 3-digit prefix that identifies the book industry (currently 978), followed by the core 9-digit number and the recalculated check digit that validates the internal integrity of the whole number. As such, it will also be identical to the EAN Bookland 13-digit code that already appears encoded in the bar code printed on the back of the book. Although the official date for moving to this new standard is 2007 January 1, some publishers expect to begin printing both the current 10- and the new 13-digit ISBNs in materials later this year. This will allow them to make the transition more easily to the new ISBN-13. For further details on the ISBN-13 implementation, please see: http://www.isbn-international.org/en/revision.html and http://www.isbn-international.org/en/download/implementation-guidelines-04.pdf. The Library of Congress began recording ISBN-13 numbers in LC records on 2004 October 1. Because OCLC was in the process of moving to a new system/database platform, OCLC adopted the following interim support for ISBN-13 numbers in WorldCat, which will remain in effect until OCLC has completed implementation of ISBN-13. Implementation is scheduled for 2006 November 12, and will be described in Technical Bulletin 253, ISBN and OCLC Number Changes, which was published in September 2006. Until implementation:

• For records loaded into WorldCat from the Library of Congress and our other trading partners:
  • OCLC will convert a 13-digit number appearing in field 020 subfield $a to an EAN (field 024, first indicator '3').
  • If the record contains a 13-digit ISBN without a corresponding 10-digit ISBN, OCLC will convert a 13-digit ISBN beginning with 978 to a 10-digit ISBN, modifying the check digit along the way, as well as convert to an EAN as indicated above.
• For online input:
  • For original records, OCLC libraries should input ISBN-13 numbers into an EAN field (024, first indicator '3') rather than inputting into the ISBN field (020).
  • For copy cataloging that contains an ISBN-13 on the piece but not on the record being edited, users with full-level or higher authorization may add the ISBN-13 numbers into an EAN field (024, first indicator '3') as a database enrichment using system lock and replace capabilities. Users that do not have full-level authorization may report these to OCLC Quality Control Section using one of the many error reporting options: online system, email, fax or mail.
  • OCLC libraries should NOT input ISBN-13 numbers in an 020 field. If libraries do enter the 13-digit ISBN in an 020 field, validation will move the number to subfield $z indicating that it is an invalid ISBN. Such numbers will not be indexed and retrieved as the user might expect. (See "For searching" below).
• For searching:
  • No indexing/searching changes will be implemented at this time. Libraries can search for ISBN-13 numbers using the "Standard Number" index, which covers both the 020 subfield $z and the 024 fields.
  • ISBN-13 numbers will not be retrievable using the ISBN index during this interim period.
• After OCLC completes the implementation of our new system/database platform, we will add support for the ISBN-13 numbers in the 020 field for Batchload, online input and searching. In the future:
  • All 10-digit ISBNs will be converted to 13-digit ones and both forms stored and indexed in WorldCat records.
  • 13-digit ISBNs in field 024 (EAN) will be converted to field 020 and both forms (10-digit and 13-digit) will be stored and indexed in WorldCat records.
  • When a user inputs a valid 10- or 13-digit ISBN, the online system will automatically generate the other ISBN prior to adding the record to WorldCat.
  • Reports and catalog card printing will be modified to display or print 13-digit ISBNs.

Amazon.com is Now an OCLC PromptCat Participant

Amazon.com is now an OCLC PromptCat participant, making it possible for libraries to receive OCLC MARC records along with the materials they get from the online vendor including books, music, DVDs, and more. The OCLC PromptCat service offers an effective, affordable way to automate a library's cataloging needs. With PromptCat, new items ordered through participating vendors such as Amazon.com arrive with complete OCLC MARC records, and the library's holdings are automatically set in WorldCat, the world's most comprehensive database of library materials. Each of these services can be tailored to meet the needs of each library, and each library is able to manage its processing profile online. For a complete list of OCLC PromptCat participants, visit http://www.oclc.org/promptcat/about/vendors/.

Donohue Group Contributing Original MARC Records to WorldCat

The Donohue Group, Inc. (DGI), is a provider of professional contract technical and consulting services to libraries, historical societies and museums. Founded in 1984, they have been known to libraries for many years for quality contract cataloging. One of the services offered by DGI is Publishers Cataloging in Publication (PCIP). Within this program, a publisher who is not eligible to participate in the LC CIP program may contract with DGI for creation of PCIP. You can read more about DGI's PCIP program at http://www.dgiinc.com/pcip.htm. DGI is now contributing these PCIP records to WorldCat. As a result, cataloging for these titles will be available in WorldCat prior to a library's acquisition of the title. This enables OCLC member libraries to do copy cataloging rather than costly original cataloging. PCIP prepared by DGI looks very similar to LC CIP. When added to WorldCat, the DGI PCIP records will be set at Encoding Level M, which is the OCLC code for batchload records that are less than full level. This Encoding Level may be upgraded by any member library with a full cataloging authorization. Doing such an upgrade earns the library a Minimal Level Upgrade credit. The records contain an incomplete 300 field, much like the LC CIP records do, though the DGI PCIP is often subfielded and may indicate whether illustrations will be present in the subfield $b. Other than the information that is not available pre-publication, the records are quite complete. They contain complete LC and Dewey classification numbers as well as LCSH and LC subject headings for children's literature as appropriate. When a DGI record is added to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code DONE. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu).

The Dewey Decimal Classification Debuts in Vietnamese

OCLC announces the publication of the Vietnamese translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, Abridged Edition 14, by the National Library of Vietnam. The new edition was officially launched at a seminar in Hanoi on 2006 August 16, at which Assistant Editor Julianne Beall represented the Dewey team. This is the first complete translation of an edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) into Vietnamese. In September 2001, at a workshop in Hanoi sponsored by The Atlantic Philanthropies and RMIT International University Vietnam, and attended by librarians from across the country, Vietnamese librarians chose the DDC as one of their bibliographic standards. Translations of the most recent editions of Dewey are available, under way, or under discussion in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Vietnamese project also aims to develop the classification skills of Vietnamese librarians, and the publication and launch of Dewey will be followed by a national training program in DDC classification, led by Professor Patricia Oyler of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston.

BBC Audiobooks America Partners with OCLC

OCLC is pleased to announce that BBC Audiobooks America, a major supplier of audiobooks to the public library market, has become a Vendor Record Contribution Partner. BBC Audiobooks America, located in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, publishes and distributes unabridged audiobooks and radio dramatizations in CD, audiocassette, and MP-3CD formats. In addition, they distribute some BBC video programs. For more information on their extensive offerings in many subject areas, see their website at http://www.bbcaudiobooksamerica.com. OCLC began loading original MARC records for BBC Audiobooks America titles in September 2006. Look for the symbol BBCAA in the 040 field subfield c to identify titles contributed by BBC Audiobooks America to WorldCat. When a record from BBC Audiobooks America matches a record already in WorldCat, the BBCAA symbol is added in subfield $d of the 040 field. In both cases of original records and matches, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code BBCA. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable using the vendor information keyword index. For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, see http://www.oclc.org/partnerships/material/contribution/technical/default.htm.

Introducing the New OCLC Terminologies Service

The new OCLC Terminologies Service offers multiple thesauri in a single interface. Using the Terminologies Service improves access to your library, museum, or archival materials and increases visibility of your collection. This powerful new metadata creation tool helps you easily catalog both digital and traditional hardcopy materials. The service brings multiple thesauri together into a single interface-to save you time and improve metadata creation. Among the features of this powerful new tool:

• Eliminates the need to learn multiple interfaces and search strategies for each terminology.
• Delivers more consistently tagged metadata to WorldCat or any union catalog.
• May be used as a stand alone service or with your Web-based metadata editor.
• Gives access to pertinent thesauri such as mesh, gmgpc, gsafd, lctgm, ngl and dct.

Learn more at http://www.oclc.org/terminologies.

Reference Services

LILACS Records Loaded into WorldCat

OCLC recently completed the first phase of loading records from The Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences Database (LILACS) into WorldCat. The majority of the records were original to WorldCat (316,796 original LILAC records were added). Documents in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are included. LILACS is a cooperative product of the Latin American and Caribbean Centre on Health Sciences Information, coordinated by BIREME (Biblioteca Regional de Medicina). BIREME is a Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Specialized Center established in Brazil since 1967 and works in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Secretary of Health of the State of Sao Paulo, and the Federal University of Sao Paulo. BIREME offers a virtual library to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean providing information in Science and Health (www.bireme.br). It is the mission of BIREME to contribute to the development of health in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean by the promotion of the use of the scientific and technical health information. In a broad sense, LILACS covers all Health Sciences addressing human health: Medicine, Public Health, Dentistry, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Sanitary Engineering, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Biology, Nutrition, Psychology, Ecology and Environment, etc. The Cooperating Centers of the Latin America and Caribbean countries include: the libraries of the network or national information systems; the Documentation Centers of Pan American Health Organization - PAHO; PAHO Representations in the countries of the Region; PAHO Special Regional Centers; and PAHO Headquarter Library. All of them contribute to the LILACS database. A Coordinating Centre in each country is responsible for the activities of the National Cooperating Centers concerning the LILACS database. In Brazil, BIREME is also the LILACS Coordinating Centre at regional and national levels.

PsycCRITIQUES Database Now Available on FirstSearch

OCLC will now offer PsycCRITIQUES, a database of full-text reviews of current books, some popular films, videos, and software, as well as comparative reviews of books. It replaces the APA print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books as of January 2005. Weekly releases of approximately 15-20 reviews that include current year copyright book reviews will be added to the database. PsycCRITIQUES also includes a backfile of more than 5,000 Contemporary Psychology reviews from 1995-2004. The new database joined APA's family of research databases on FirstSearch: PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycFIRST.

Resource Sharing, Contract Services, Collection Management

NetLibrary Teams with Airiti to Offer Chinese-Language eContent

NetLibrary, a division of OCLC and a leading platform for eContent to libraries worldwide, has announced an agreement with Taipei, Taiwan-based Airiti, Inc. to offer subscription service to three highly-regarded Chinese-language databases. The agreement, which was announced during the 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council in Seoul, Korea, in August 2006, will provide OCLC NetLibrary with rights to sell annual subscriptions to Airiti's Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS), the Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS), and the National Palace Museum (NPM) Online Database. Named the Best Subsidized Digital Publication by News Bureau of The Executive Yuan of Taiwan, the NPM Online database contains more than 12,000 images of Chinese antique art paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiquities, and other artifacts from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. NPM Online provides high-resolution 1024x768 pixel images and includes artifact descriptions in multiple languages, including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and English. Japanese versions will be coming soon. Airiti's Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) and Chinese Electronic Periodical Services (CEPS) database products will provide library users with direct access to more than 2,500 full-text Chinese-language journals. The Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services covers 81,000 articles published in leading Taiwanese academic journals, and the Chinese Electronic Periodical Services includes 338,000 full-text articles from journals published in China and in Taiwan. Spanning subject areas including medicine and life sciences, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and applied sciences, each service is updated daily with new academic journal content and includes archived issues dating to 1991. The Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services, Chinese Electronic Periodical Services and NPM Online database are available to libraries as an annual subscription, offering unlimited, simultaneous usage. Users will be able to link directly to the image database and periodical services from the NetLibrary user interface, and will be able to search, browse, and access content online.

WorldCat Collection Analysis, August 2006 Enhancements

On Tuesday, 2006 August 8, OCLC installed the WorldCat Collection Analysis Quarterly Update and added the following enhancements:

• Quarterly Updates
  • This quarterly update represents changes libraries have made to their holdings from 2006 January 1 to July 1.
  • All Individual Library Analyses, Group Analyses, WorldCat Comparisons, Peer Comparisons, Predefined Group Comparisons, and Authoritative List Comparisons will reflect these updates.
• WorldCat Comparison for Group Subscribers
  • We have created WorldCat Comparisons for Group Subscribers. This comparison shows what the group as a whole owns Uniquely in WorldCat, what it shares with one other library, two other libraries, etc. For example, if eight members of a group own an item and one other library (not in the group) also owns that item it will display in the Shared by 2 column.
• Continually Updated Resources Formats
  • We have incorporated the new Continually Updated Resources and Continually Updated Resources, Electronic formats into the service.
  • They are both available as Limits on the Limits screen and as row dimensions in the Analysis Results.
• Conspectus Update
  • Geography & Earth Sciences: Added geographic Subjects for Atlases and Maps; added some additional Subjects throughout.
  • Physical Sciences: Added more Subjects throughout.
  • Law: Added more Subject breakdowns for the Category "Law, General" and narrowing down the Subject "Comparative Law, International Uniform Law."