What Membership Means

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1 The OCLC Collaborative What Membership Means Anja Smit Chair, EMEA Regional Council

2 Utrecht University established in 1636 All disciplines including Medicine No 53 in the world, 12 within Europe, best in the country students, staff Utrecht University Library founded as city library during the Reformation, 1584 Fysical collection 3,5 M items including special collections 144 fte staff Operating budget of M 23 including acquisition of M 7

3 Collaboration in The Netherlands Successful library collaboration: Pica National Union Catalog and ILL ILS system from the 80-ties Consortium of 14 academic & 12 public libraries Collaborative Information Infrastructure OCLC Europe is the contract partner for CII Steering Committee and Working Groups Annual Work Plan and SLA

4 CII: The Next Step From national to international collaboration Why? Our users are in the cloud Discovery of information happens in the cloud Delivery brought into the cloud Enhance efficiency in our back offices Worldwide ILL Sharing administrative data (e.g. Licenses)

5 OCLC is Crucial to Our Stategy Suite of global services available WorldCat connects our fysical collections to the cloud WordShare Plaform for our digital collections WMS OCLC Research Office provides market research OCLC vision and strategy supports our strategy Membership is more than a subscription

6 OCLC Governance Structure

7 The EMEA Regional Council Europe, Middle East & Africa Represents 1800 Members ( OCLC users) in 60 countries Understanding needs and issues across the Region Promote the cooperative and share information about cooperative activity within the Region Identify themes and issues for Global Council Advise OCLC Management and Board of Trustees on EMEARC matters 2/5/2013

8 EMEA RC: 10 seats in GC

9 Executive Committee Delegate Constituency Term expires Annette Le Roux Sout Africa 2013 Rupert Schaab Germany 2013 Anja Smit The Netherlands 2013 Robin Green United Kingdom 2013 Poul Erlandsen Denmark 2013 Raymond Berard France 2014 Annsofie Oscarsson Sweden 2014 Cendrella Habre Lebanon 2015 Bert Looper The Netherlands (Archives) 2015 Robert Moropa South Africa (Africa) /5/2013

10 EMEA RC Executive Comittee Raymond Annette Robin Annsofie Rupert Poul Cendrella Bert Anja Robert

11 Global Council 2012

12 EMEA RC Activities Regional meetings (this one, Egypt, Eastern Europe, UK) Hosting the Global Council Meeting in April 2013 Reaching out to the membership Participcate in Committees and Task Forces: Membership Cttee Finance Committee, Cost Sharing Task Force Museums & Archives Task Force

13 Our Next Big Event

14 Strasbourg Programme The Power of Shared Data Library Perspectives of Sharing Data Progress on Moving Data to the Cloud Linked Data Innovating with Data

15 What Engagement Can Bring Because Libraries are always part of a network... Work together with colleagues in a large region Active member in the global library community Engage in OCLC strategy through Committees and Task Forces Collaborate internationally in innovation through the Research Programme

16 Grazie!