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Subject: WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative
- Draft for Community Review
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 16:58:08 -0400
From: Weitz,Jay <[log in to unmask]>
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*From:* OCLC-Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of
*Whitehair,David
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:29 AM
*To:* OCLC-CAT
*Subject:* [OCLC-CAT] WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC
Cooperative - Draft for Community Review
Please see the message below, posted on behalf of the OCLC Record Use
Policy Council.
Thanks,
David
David Whitehair
Senior Product Manager, Cataloging & Metadata Services
OCLC
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin, OH 43017-3395 USA
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TO: OCLC Members
FROM: OCLC Record Use Policy Council Co-Chairs *Barbara Gubbin,*
Director, Jacksonville Public Library, USA; and *Jennifer Younger,*
President-Elect, OCLC Global Council and Edward H. Arnold Director of
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame, USA
RE: Next-generation policy for WorldCat records—open for community review
DATE: April 7, 2010
The OCLC Record Use Policy Council members have been working for the
past few months to develop the next generation of a WorldCat use policy,
and we are pleased to announce that the draft document, WorldCat Rights
and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/default.htm>, is open for
community review.
This Council, convened by the OCLC Board of Trustees last September, has
produced a new draft document that incorporates many suggestions raised
by the community over the past year. For example, rather than using
legal language, we have drafted the new policy as a code of good
practices, intended to outline the rights and responsibilities of OCLC
members with regard to the use of WorldCat records.
We intend for this document to help inform the decision-making process
for member library leaders as they seek to innovate around the shared
resource that is WorldCat. We have sought to encourage the widespread
use of WorldCat data while also supporting the viability and utility of
WorldCat and the OCLC network of services.
The draft policy is not final. Between now and the end of May, we very
much want your feedback. We hope you will take the time to review the
draft policy carefully, and let us know your thoughts. You can post
comments to the community forum <http://community.oclc.org/recorduse>,
send an e-mail with your thoughts to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, or register to attend a webinar
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/council/default.htm> where
you can ask questions and submit feedback to members of the Record Use
Policy Council. We will continue to add content to the accompanying FAQ
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/questions/default.htm>_ _as
we get more questions from the community review process.
We plan to send a revised version of the draft policy to the OCLC Board
of Trustees at the end of May for final review and approval. We
anticipate that a final document will be published mid-calendar year 2010.
Many thanks are due to all the members and librarians who commented over
the past year and whose feedback helped us formulate this new document.
We would especially like to thank the members of the Record Use Policy
Council:
· *ChewLeng Beh,* Global Council Delegate and Chair, OCLC Asia Pacific
Regional Council; and Senior Director, Singapore National Library Board,
Singapore
· *Raymond Bérard,* Global Council Delegate and Director, ABES, France
· *Karen Calhoun,* Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services,
OCLC, USA
· *Klaus Ceynowa,* Global Council Delegate and Deputy Director General,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany
· *Christopher Cole,* Global Council Delegate and Associate Director for
Technical Services, National Agriculture Library, USA
· *Lorcan Dempsey,* Vice President, OCLC Research and Chief Strategist,
OCLC, USA
· *Nancy Eaton,* Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly
Communications, Penn State University, USA
· *Clifford A. Lynch,* Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI), USA
· *Brian E. C. Schottlaender,* Global Council Delegate and The Audrey
Geisel University Librarian, UC San Diego Libraries, USA
· *Lamar Veatch,* Global Council Delegate and State Librarian, Georgia
Public Library Service–University System of Georgia, USA
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