An Update on OCLC Asia Pacific OCLC CJK Users Group Meeting San Diego, CA March 6, 2004 Andrew H. Wang Executive Director OCLC Asia Pacific Building an Information Network and a People Network

OCLC Offices of Regional Responsibilities  The Americas The U.S.A. OCLC Canada Latin America and the Caribbean  OCLC | PICA OCLC Europe and the South Africa OCLC Middle East and the North Africa  OCLC Asia Pacific

Objectives l Revisit the rationale for re-evaluating jobs and building a new exempt pay structure at OCLC l Develop a general understanding of job evaluation l Review the job evaluation process at OCLC l Understand your important role in providing “quality assurance” in the job evaluation process l Update project time line

Growth – OCLC Users in Asia Pacific 124% growth rate in 4 years,

OCLC Users in Asia and the Pacific Region 1.China (Mainland)1,012institutions 2.Japan515 institutions 3.Korea329 institutions 4.Taiwan194 institutions 5.Australia169 institutions 6.Singapore98 institutions 7.New Zealand43 institutions 8.Thailand28 institutions 9.Hong Kong26institutions 10.Malaysia17institutions 11.India16institutions 12.Philippines4institutions 13.Macau2institutions 14.Pakistan2institutions 15.Mauritius 1institution 16.Micronesia1institution (Users Profiled – January 2004)

OCLC Membership Categories  OCLC Governing Members Libraries that make a contractual commitment to catalog ALL newly acquired materials on WorldCat The key is contribution of holding symbol and original records  OCLC Members Libraries that catalog SOME of their newly acquired materials on WorldCat Libraries that lend materials (ILL suppliers) to other OCLC users  OCLC Participants Libraries that choose not to contribute through cooperative cataloging and/or ILL, but wish to use other OCLC services

OCLC Members Council Delegates – OCLC Asia Pacific (Term: ) l Ms. Shirley Leung – Asia Pacific Delegate University Librarian Hong Kong Baptist University l Mr. Cheng Huanwen – China Delegate Professor and University Librarian Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China l Mr. Michitaro Urakawa – Japan Delegate Director of the Library Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia China (Mainland)  China Academic Library Information System (CALIS) FirstSearch  China Library Consortium (CLC) netLibrary eBooks  China National Publications Import & Export Corporation (CNPIEC) ECO (eJournals) MARC records supply

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia Japan  National Institute of Informatics (NII – NACSIS) Cataloging System-to-system link for ILL

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia Korea  Korea Education & Research Information Service (KERIS) Cataloging and union catalog FirstSearch ECO (eJournals) netLibrary eBooks

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia Singapore  Singapore Integrated Library Automation Service (SILAS) Cataloging and union catalog

Relationships with Nationwide Consortia Taiwan  Consortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan (CONCERT) FirstSearch  Taiwan E-Books NetWork (TEBNET) netLibrary eBooks

Major Contributors in Asia – MARC Records of Chinese Information Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong University of Science & Technology University of Hong Kong

Major Contributor in Asia – MARC Records of Japanese Information  Waseda University Agreement of 1993 – 330,000 records Agreement of 1998 – 300,000 records Agreement of 2003 – 90,000 records plus 2,500 records monthly

Opportunities – MARC Records of Korean Information  National Central Library of Korea

Opportunities – Chinese-Language Information  Joint University Library Advisory Committee (JULAC) HKCAN (Hong Kong Chinese Authority – Names)  Shanghai Library Index to Journals Published in China  Shenzhen Library Batchload over 1 million records of 23 institutions

Opportunities – Chinese-Language Information  National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan Dissertations and Thesis Index to Newspaper Articles

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