“Consortia are experimenting with new forms of collaboration to improve their services, demonstrate their value and increase the visibility of their members. During ALA, we hosted a session that featured three individuals from different consortia. These presentations demonstrate creative approaches to new ventures through strong partnerships.”
OCLC has a new Research publication: “Print Management at “Mega-scale”: A Regional Perspective on Print Book Collections in North America” by Brian Lavoie and Constance Malpas, Program Officer JD Shipengrover
Excerpt: “This report explores a counterfactual scenario where local US and Canadian print book collections are consolidated into regional shared collections based on the mega-regions framework. We begin by briefly reviewing the conclusions from the Cloud-sourcing report, and then present a simple framework that organizes the landscape of print book collection consolidation models and distinguishes the basic assumptions underpinning the Cloud-sourcing report and the present report. We then introduce the mega-regions framework, and use WorldCat data to construct twelve mega-regional consolidated print book collections. Analysis of the regional collections is synthesized into a set of stylized facts describing their salient characteristics, as well as key cross-regional relationships among the collections. The stylized facts motivate a number of key implications regarding access, management, preservation, and other topics considered in the context of a network of regionally consolidated print book collections.”
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-05.pdf
Posted in Collection Development, OCLC, Valerie
OCLC is introducing something called Worldshare.
OCLC WorldShare provides a Web-based platform for collective innovation with shared services, integrated applications and a streamlined approach to managing library workflows. Together with WorldCat, WorldShare helps the world’s libraries connect in new ways to operate, innovate and collaborate at Webscale.
The new partnership allows both organizations to focus on providing libraries with consulting, education and engagement programs. To help you learn more about how Web scale is revitalizing traditional services by sharing workflows, activities and data, LYRASIS and OCLC present a series of FREE, regionally based events:
Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how to lower your costs, make your services more efficient and improve your users’ overall experience. During this FREE series, you and your staff will:
Virtual Events
February 10, 2011: Live Online
February 24, 2011: Live Online
News releases
“OCLC and the Connecticut Library Consortium announce partnership DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 13 October 2010—OCLC welcomes the Connecticut Library Consortium as a new partner in the OCLC Partnership Program.
“OCLC and LYRASIS present a FREE day-long program focused on current and future ways that network-level services will increase efficiency, improve productivity and streamline workflows.
Libraries have been cooperating on cataloging, collection management and resource sharing services for decades. In that time, we have enjoyed the benefits of networked services—no local software or hardware, elimination of maintenance and support costs, lower overall expense and better scalability.
“Thanks to a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Denver Public Library, in partnership with the City of Denver, History Colorado, University of Colorado at Denver Auraria Library, and the University of Denver Penrose Library, is bringing together historic resources and digitized archival materials on Creating Communities Online.
…. Neighborhood Histories 
As part of Creating Communities, the Denver Public Library digitized photographs, maps and documents from seven of Denver’s historic neighborhoods. For each of the seven featured neighborhoods in the Neighborhood Histories section of the site, they have gathered resources highlighting the people, places and diverse community that shaped each neighborhood’s unique history.”
Developer collaboration leads to implementation of NCIP 2.0
Early this spring a community of library developers interested in interoperability between discovery interfaces and integrated library systems formed a working group to build on the work of the DLF ILS-DI Task force. After several months of collaboration between this developer community and OCLC team members, we are excited to announce our plans to contribute an implementation of version 2.0 of the NCIP standard, derived from the OCLC Web-scale Management Services codebase, to the eXtensible Catalog’s open-source NCIP Toolkit.
In case you are wondering, NCIP is the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol. The standard is “intended to address the growing need for interoperability among disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, and related applications.”
Posted in Integrated Library Catalogs (ILS), Joe, NISO, OCLC
OCLC, the RLG and the Smithsonian Institution are hosting a conference in September. It is:
Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration, September 20-21, 2010 at the Smithsonian Institution, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C.
OCLC Research and an RLG Partnership planning committee have created a two-day event on strategies for effective collaboration that will be hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, 20-21, September. All RLG Partners, as well as representatives from other cultural heritage organizations, are cordially invited to attend this free event. Please mark your calendars and register now to reserve your spot at this important event.
It is also supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. It is endorsed by the Joint SAA, ALA and AAM Committee on Archives, Libraries & Museums (CALM).
Thanks to Gary for the note.
Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration
20-21 September 2010
Smithsonian Institution, Ripley Center, Washington, D.C.
Organized by the RLG Partnership and OCLC Research
Hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Endorsed by the Joint SAA, ALA and AAM Committee on Archives, Libraries & Museums (CALM)OCLC Research and an RLG Partnership planning committee have created a two-day event on strategies for effective collaboration that will be hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, 20-21, September. All RLG Partners, as well as representatives from other cultural heritage organizations, are cordially invited to attend this free event. Please mark your calendars and register now to reserve your spot at this important event.
Thanks to Gary Price for letting us know about the conference.
Posted in ALA, Conference, IMLS, Joe, OCLC
Tagged AAM, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, RLG, SAA, Smithsonian
