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OCLC : building the future of library management

SWRLS, March 11th 2013

Elisabeth Robinson

UK Product ManagerOCLC

@misswizzie

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• Best known for

• WorldCat

• UNITY UK

• FABLIbraries

• Bookmark Your Library

• Enquire/QuestionPoint

• Dewey

OCLC – a snapshot

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• WorldShare Management Services

• ‘True’ Cloud based solution

• Library services platform

• 100 sites live worldwide

• Academic and Public

WorldShare

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• Traditional systems vs. new requirements

• Increase of e-materials

• Integration / interoperability

• Drive for efficiencies

• “Doing more with less.....”

• Alternative payment models

• Lower upfront cost, and annual subscription

Why something new?

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Shared data saves money

Simple and intuitive interfacessave work and training time

Greatly reduceneed forIT staffsupport

No additional charge foruser interface “extras”

Easier workflowsempower

staffto do more

No localhardware

costs

No localsoftware

costs

Includesintegrated

cataloguing dataNo

datasecurity

costs

WorldCat presence increases

library visibility

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• No hardware responsibility

• Saving money

• Less reliance on IT

• Releasing resource

• Flexibility of delivery

• Mobile technologies

Cloud based

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Further benefit of cloud solution:Reduced time and costs on technology

70% 30%INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE

Amazon.com: http://www.slideshare.net/goodfriday/amazon-web-services-building-a-webscale-computing-architecture

Before cloud computing…After cloud computing…

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• Creating efficiencies

• Logical workflows

• Data reuse• Catalogue

• Vendors

• Knowledge-base & ERM

• Analysis

• Peer organisations

• Last copy

Shared data/shared services

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• Library services platforms

• Open architecture

• Interoperability

• Applications and web services

• A platform on which to build your library’s future

• A platform that enables innovation

Open technologies

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Best seller - Acquisitions app

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Example: Working with external services: The Amazon Budget Widget

Price: $8.86

Current Budget: 4,573.21 Remaining Budget: 4,357.29Current Budget: 4,573.21 Remaining Budget: 4,348.43

“The application platform will allow us to develop

power tools that could really, really streamline

operations for staff.”

Kyle Banerjee, Digital Services Program Manager

Orbis Cascade Alliance (pilot participant)

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Being Global: WMS Product & Development team

3 continents, 5 countries, 12 cities

Dub

SM

Circulation

Localisation

IDM/UDS

DubUser Interface Cookbook

Acquisitions

Vendor Information Centre

LicenseManagement

KnowledgeBaseWorldCat

NJDub

NJDub

Infrastructure

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“Above all, we liked that OCLC is a library cooperative. We are members working together toward a common vision sharing many of the same challenges. And it is through this shared vision that we hope to eliminate many of the barriers that prevent access to information.”

Sandy Ashworth, Director, Boundary County District Library

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