IV Encuentro Internacional de Catalogadores - Bogota -Colombia

1. Libraries, Catalogs, and the Global Information Infrastructure David Whitehair Global Product Manager, Cataloging & Metadata Services IV Encuentro Internacional De Catalogadores October 22, 2008

2. The Way We Worked Books Journals Newspapers Gov docs Maps Scores AV Dissertations Special collections Manuscripts Papers Univ records Journal articles Conference proceedings Etc. Library catalogs Archives Abstracting & Indexing services

3. Where Do You Begin an Online Search for Information on a Topic? College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: a Report to the OCLC Membership : http://www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm

4. LC Action Item 6.4: “Support research and development on the changing nature of the catalog to include consideration of a framework for its integration with other discovery tools.” Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 17 March 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

5. The Catalog in Context, 1 Online catalogs represent one node in the scholar’s information universe

6. Geocentric/ Aristotelian view: The local catalog is the sun Heliocentric/ Copernican view: The local catalog is a planet

9. National Library and Information System, Trinidad and Tobago 24 public libraries Heritage Library National Archives

11. Some Success Stories

12. 1. WorldCat: The World’s Cataloging at Your Fingertips

13. The OCLC cooperative: 2008 69,826 libraries in 112 countries 1,355 55,284 882 5,639 4,253 1,015 320 Cataloging eBooks Reference Digitization & Preservation Resource Sharing Collection Analysis 1,080

14. The OCLC Cooperative: a decade of growth 1998 30,000 3,200 64 38 million 668 million participating libraries participants outside U.S. participant countries WorldCat records WorldCat holdings 2008 69,826 14,544 112 108 million 1.3 billion

15. WorldCat at June 30, 2008 90.6m Books 4.6m Serials 3.6m Visual materials 1.6m Maps 108 million records 1.3 billion holdings 3.8m Sound recordings 2.4m Scores .8m Computer files .9m Archival collections

22. Example of Group Catalog Searching

23. Example of Group Catalog Searching

24. 2.c. Exposing the Nation’s Scientific Research: Brazil’s IBICT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

25. 2.c. Exposing the Nation’s Scientific Research: Brazil’s IBICT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

26. 2.c. Exposing the Nation’s Scientific Research: Brazil’s IBICT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

27. 2.c. Exposing the Nation’s Scientific Research: Brazil’s IBICT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

29. 3.a. FUNGLODE Global: Being More Visible on the Network

30. 3.a. FUNGLODE Global: Being More Visible on the Network

31. 3.b. Open WorldCat, Driving Searches to Your Library

32. 3.b. Open WorldCat, Driving Searches to Your Library

33. 3.b. Open WorldCat, Driving Searches to Your Library

35. Exposing Your Collections Where Your Users Live and Work on the Web

36. Exposing Your Collections Where Your Users Live and Work on the Web

37. Exposing Your Collections Where Your Users Live and Work on the Web

38. WorldCat Registry

39. A Completed Entry: Main Library of the University of Texas at Austin

40. Some New Ventures We Might Try

42. Start Locally and Extend Your Search Regionally and Globally Local Group Global

43. A Few Other Points to Notice: Multilingual Subject Terms and Subject Searching

44. Just One Last Thing … Exciting new uses for cataloging and authority data … WorldCat Identities

46. WorldCat Identities: Gabriel García Márquez Link to WorldCat Identities

47. García Márquez’s Identity, Page 1

48. García Márquez’s Identity, Page 2

49. García Márquez’s Identity, Page 3

50. Thank you! David Whitehair [email_address]