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LYRASIS and OCLC Present:
Collaborative Platforms: Working With OCLC
WorldShare™ and More Tools for Libraries
Objectives
• After this session, you will be able to:
• Define web scale / cloud computing• Identify free/reasonably priced web
scale tools• Improve your work efficiency by
working at web scale• Understand the collaborative
features of the OCLC WorldShare™ Platform
Cloud Computing
• Basic definition: • The practice of using a network of remote
servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server.
• Web Scale: • 'Web-scale' refers to how major web
presences architect systems and services to scale as use grows. --Lorcan Dempsey
Four types of cloud computing
Infrastructure
Platform Applications Services
KPMG
Discussion: What are you using?
• Share in chat some cloud computing tools you are using in your work life with the group—Share:
• What its called• What it does• How you are applying it in a library
setting
Cloud computing tools in libraries
• Let’s review some practical tools and think about how we can apply them to our work in libraries!
Dropbox
SlideShare
PollEverywhere
Prezi
Shared infrastructure to manage and share resources across libraries and across
communities.
Shared data about the world’s libraries. Find and get it.
The Future Today
Doing things differently
Doing different things
Entertainment
The Future Today
Communication Information
Shopping
Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
The Future Today:
Organizations have access to infrastructure and platforms that enable them to reach a broad, geographically diverse community…
The Web scales
…and at the same time scope their services to focus on meeting the specific needs of their users.
The Future Today: The world at Webscale
Consumer
Business
SharedData
Shared Infrastructu
re
INSTITUTION ANDLIBRARY PRIORITIES
Priorities in higher education
• Student enrollment, retention, and graduation rates
• Student learning• Faculty research productivity• Faculty grant proposals and
funding• Faculty teaching
Top Priorities for academic libraries
• Licensed e-collections/e-books 51%
• Future of higher education and the library’s role 42%
• Facilities issues 39%• Visibility of library’s collection
30%• Digitization projects 23%
Tipping Point
• Over 3.5 million people take online courses today
• Most major colleges and universities now offer online degree programs
• The concept of “point, click, study” is officially mainstream
• Even residential universities, "hybrid" courses will become the norm as discussions, office hours, lectures, study groups, and assignments move on line.
Top concerns in academia: online and distance learning
It can help answer your key priorities
• Key priority #1: Increasing visibility and relevance in your community– WorldShare solution: Increase your visibility on the web– WorldShare solution: Free your staff for critical public
services• Key priority #2: Demonstrating value to your funders and
community– WorldShare solution: Offer new services for your patrons
• Key priority #3: Helping to stretch your budget
– WorldShare solution: Reduce your costs
Tipping point…
• Residents in 20’s & 30’s not engaged within community
• Reaching out through social media• More diverse population
Top concerns in the public sector: changing community demographics
Meeting these priorities: Things to do differently
• Spend more cataloging time on special collections
• Streamline tech services so staff have 8 hours a week freed up for new projects
• Manage all your physical and electronic collections in one place
• Automatically add and update e collections for discovery and access
• Give your students access to everything from your library on their mobile device
Meeting academic library priorities: Different things to do
• The library sponsored a student collaboration app that consolidated from multiple sources for student projects
• The library sponsored a faculty research app that consolidated data, literature, notes etc for collaboration with colleagues
Meeting public library priorities: Different things to do
• The library sponsors a genealogy collaboration app that consolidated information from multiple sources for surname projects
• The library sponsored a small business app to pull together multiple resources for small business owners
To have the future now
• Tools to do different things in the community we serve
• Tools to do things differently to gain capacity
HOW OCLC WORLDSHARE HELPS
200720052000
Back to the future: A decade of change and new assumptions
1999 201120102006200420032001
S3 & EC2
Discovery
Community Collaboration
2009
100,000 appsin Apple’s
National/GlobalSystem
ElectronicVendor
A World of disconnects
PrintVendor
s
Library
ILSCirculation
CatalogingSelf
Service
Acquisitions
ConsortialSystemResolver
ERM
Meta-search
A to ZListYouTube
GoodReads
UsersFacebook
Wikipedia
Amazon
WebMD
BBC News
HathiTrust
iTunes
university.edu
Scholarportals
EasyBib
Google Scholar
ESPN
OPAC
JSTOR
National/GlobalSystem
ElectronicVendor
PrintVendor
s
Library
ILSCirculation
CatalogingSelf
Service
Acquisitions
ConsortialSystemResolver
ERM
Meta-search
A to ZListYouTube
GoodReads
UsersFacebook
Wikipedia
Amazon
WebMD
BBC News
HathiTrust
iTunes
university.edu
Scholarportals
EasyBib
Google Scholar
ESPN
OPAC
JSTOR A-Z
A-Z List Circulation Discovery
Acquisitions Cataloging Digital Repository
Self Service Vendor Directory Patron Admin
Delivery Tracker
Reserves Mgr
WorldCat Identities
Moving our infrastructure to Webscale
DuraArchive Check Discovery
CLOCKSS Checker JSTOR Image Find
Portico Account DOI Generator Molecule Scan Hathi Text Search
Faculty Press
Study Guides
AcademiCal
Moving our infrastructure to Webscale
Family Tree Info Discovery
ScoreFinder Room Reserve
Pic2Lib Amazon Wish List Friends of the Library
Facebookbookclub
for donations
Project Generator
Rate & RecommendNYT Best Sellers
Angry Birds
Moving our infrastructure to Webscale
OCLC WorldShare Platform
• The WorldShare Platform leverages OCLC’s infrastructure to deliver an externalized integration environment• Exposes a suite of business- and data-level Web services
for use by libraries and other industry partners, beginning with WorldShare Management Services
– Creates opportunities for collaborative innovation,
making it possible to transform the relationships between libraries, their data, and their systems
What is the WorldShare Platform?
A developer “toolbox”, with Web service documentation, testing sandbox, and other resources necessary to build applications.
What is the WorldShare Platform?
An “App Gallery” to support sharing apps across libraries…and allow “single click” installation for even non-technical users.
What is the WorldShare Platform?
A place to facilitate
collaborative innovation
through online forums,
mashathons, etc.
The OCLC WorldShare Platform
Platform Management
Infrastructure
Data
Web Services
App Gallery
Library-built Applications
Partner-built Applications
OCLC-built Applications
Flexible, open platform for the community to share applications and innovation
New York Times Bestseller App…
New York Times Bestseller App…
New York Times Bestseller App…
OCLC-built Applications
On the WorldShare Platform:
WorldShare AcquisitionsWorldShare License ManagerWorldShare Circulation
Coming to WorldShare Platform:
WorldShare Analytics
Moving to WorldShare Platform:
WorldShare ILLMetadata management
WorldCat and the WorldShare Platform?
WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local moving to platform architecture
OCLC apps on the WorldShare Platform
Only need a Web browser
Shared infrastructure to manage and share resources across libraries
and across communities.
Shared data about the world’s libraries.
Find and get it.
Thank You for Attending!
Questions?• Professional
Development• 1.800.999.855
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