OCLC WorldCat Local at University of Wales Trinity Saint David by John Dalling, (University of Wales Trinity Saint David). Presentation at New Dawn: the Changing Resource Discovery Landscape - JIBS Event and AGM, Monday 25th February 2013 Brunei Gallery at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), London. Find out more about resource discovery at the HELibTech website: http://helibtech.com/Discovery
3. Why?
• 2 institutions
• 2 Library Management Systems
• 2 catalogue interfaces
• 1 new university
• 0 resource discovery interfaces
4. When?
Reviewed Planned “go
Chose WorldCat live” date:
Evaluated 4 products: Loaded records: results and
Local:
start of 2010 Summer 2010 loaded September
April 2010 corrections 2010
Live for both
Live testing on one Launched WC Added campuses:
campus: Link Manager: Loaded final
collections to
corrections September
September 2010 January 2011 knowledgebase
2011
6. Central index for content
Replaces
searches of
multiple
services and
replaces searches of multiple services and interfaces
interfaces
The world’s libraries. Connected.
7. WorldCat Local conceptual overview
WorldCat Local
Central Index
User Interface
Licensed
WorldCat
content
Availability
WorldCat
Integrated knowledge
link resolution base
LMS Full text Content Content
Full text Content
providers Content
Full text
Full text Content providers
Content
providers
Content providers
providers Member
providers
viewer providers libraries
The world’s libraries. Connected.
8. WorldCat Local libraries
Worldwide
• 399
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
• 5 in the UK
• 5 in Spain
• 4 in the Netherlands
• 2 in South Africa
• 1 in Sweden
• 1 in Ireland
The world’s libraries. Connected.
9. WorldCat Local in UK Higher Education
The world’s libraries. Connected.
10. How does it work for us?
Our record returned with
OCLC control number
Record
matching
OCLC
WorldCat
WorldCat
Record
displays
11. Benefits
• Easy to use knowledgebase
– Now manageable across multiple sites
• Consolidated searching for full text
– Limiting to full text resources, e-books
– Searches content of full text articles
– ‘One-stop’ search for most of our content
• Search across both our campuses
12. WorldCat Local central index content
Maps: 4 million
Scores: 6 million
Visual materials: 11million
Serials: 11 million
Sound recordings: 12 million
Conf. proceedings: 15 million
eBooks: 14 million
Theses and dis.: 19 million
Institutional repository
Articles records: 25 million
775 million Archival materials: 27 million
Digital materials: 34 million
Books
233 million
The world’s libraries. Connected. As of 18 January 2013
14. Changes to workflows
• Using OCLC Connexion for cataloguing
• Setting holdings in WorldCat for every
bibliographic record
• WorldCat displays the central OCLC
record and not our local record
15. Impact: Uptake of WorldCat Local
Total WorldCat Local Use: 4 September 2011 - 28 January 2013
1,400
1,200
1,000
Weekly Unique Visitors
800
600
400
200
0
Sunday, September Sunday, December 04, 2011 March 04, 2012
04, 2011 Sunday, Monday, June 04, 2012 September 04, 2012December 04, 2012
Tuesday, Tuesday,
16. Impact: Uptake of WorldCat Local
WorldCat Local Use by Campus: 4 September 2011 - 28 January 2013
800
700
Weekly Unique Visitors
600
500
400
300
200 Carmarthen
100 Lampeter
0
17. Impact: Top 50 Search Terms
Created with Wordle: www.wordle.net
20. Local Issues
• Two campuses = 2 instances of WCL
– No ‘main’ campus, 1 hour apart travelling time
• Not compatible with ‘Classic’ Athens
– Limits consolidated searching options
– Works with Shibboleth / EZProxy
• Print journals display not ideal
– Limitations due to our LMS OPAC display
21. Wider Issues
• Editions and formats grouped together…
– …most popular rather than latest is shown
– old editions are frequently requested from storage
• Some resources not well promoted
– Teaching artefacts
– Special collections: provenance data
• Batch processing / deletion
22. Useful Links
• OCLC WorldCat Local brochure
http://www.oclc.org/services/brochures/212611usb_worldcat_local.pdf
• OCLC WorldCat Local information
http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/
• Trinity Saint David WCL:
http://tsd-c.worldcat.org
http://tsd-l.worldcat.org
WorldCat Local includes features that can help you centralize users’ access to the all the electronic, digital and physical content you provide—in a single, streamlined user experience, and centralize some staff internal workflows required to manage it. WorldCat Local’s extensive integrated central index plus meta search makes every resource accessible homogeneously. Replaces the need for a meta-search feature.
DataThe Central Index consists of:The WorldCat database, continually enriched with contributions from member libraries worldwide. (Includes digital collections harvested via the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.) Licensed content contributed through data feeds from content providersThe WorldCat knowledge baseCollection, title and linking data are supplied and continually updated through data feeds from content providersApplications & services- Users interact with the user interface to find items of interest. - Search results from the central index are presented in a single relevance-ranked result set Live availability for physical items is displayed through interoperation with the local library management system Integrated link resolution uses collection subscription information and link syntax from the WorldCat knowledge base to provide ‘View Now’ links to electronic content on provider platforms.
The content inWorldCat Local comes from your library and the WorldCat Local Central index. The Central Index combines the power of WorldCat with its’ 1.9 billion holdings and adds additional licensed and digital content access to it to provide your users access to more than 1 billion items.But it’s more than just books and articles. As you can see WorldCat Local provides access to a wide variety of materials. With over 775 million articles, more than 14 million e-books as well as institutional repositories and archival collections it is truly becoming THE source for discovery and delivery of ALL your library’s content.[Note: content updates as of 18 January 2013]
Mobile access with no extra software, development or integration
Using this to illustrate how easy it is to access this type of data with Adobe SiteCatalyst.
Why JSTOR?- Collections / subscribed content has remained static throughoutGood linking and integration between WCL and JSTOR- One of our most popular resources across many disciplines
Why ACLS?- Fairly static collection (404 books added in July 2012 = grown by 10%)We have subscribed for a number of years, so can measure growth consistentlyGrowth can also be attributed to increasing promotion by library staff, and interest by academics in using e-resources with students, but the high level of growth likely to be increased visibility through WCL.