Global Council Annual Meeting 2011

The meeting was held April 11–13 in Dublin Ohio. Choose a morning or afternoon from the navigation bar below to see the available video recordings from that session. Slide presentations from individual speakers are available below.

Slide presentations from this meeting:

Global Council President's Report   [PDF, 163K]

Jennifer Younger, President

Collaboratively Building Web-scale with Libraries  [PDF, 2.7M]

Robin Murray, VP Global Product Management

What's It All About? OCLC Web Services, Developers Network and the Application Gallery: Their Contribution to the Cooperative   [PDF, 3.3M]

Kathryn Harnish, Senior Product Manager

Ensuring Robust Communications and Member Engagement for the OCLC Cooperative   [PDF, 404K]

Bill Maes, University Librarian, Dalhousie University and

Robin Green, Deputy Librarian, University of Warwick, Co-Chairs, GC Communications Task Force

Cost Sharing Models Task Force Update and Discussion   [PDF, 413K]

John Helmer, Executive Director, Orbis Cascade Alliance and Chair of the Cost Sharing Models Task Force

OCLC's Public Purpose and Pro Bono Activities   [PDF, 163K]

Kendall Wiggin, State Librarian, Connecticut State Library

Europeana: Think Culture!   [PDF, 2.9M]

Elisabeth Niggemann, Director General, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and Member, OCLC Board of Trustees

Linked Data and Open Data Licensing  [1.1M]

George Buzash, Attorney, OCLC Legal Department;

Karen Calhoun, VP Metadata, OCLC; and

Gordon Dunsire, Member, W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group (LLD XG)

Archives   [PDF, 2.2M]

Dennis Meissner, Head of Collections Management, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

Research Data Management and Linked Data Initiatives

• OPEN Biz   [PDF, 2.2M]
  
  Simon Bains, Head of Digital Library, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• The Australian National Data Service   [PDF, 156K]
  
  Vic Elliott, Director, Scholarly Information Services & University Librarian, The Australian National University

Membership Strategies and Successes in the Regional Councils: Updates from Regional Chairs: Asia Pacific, EMEARC and the Americas Regional Council

• Americas Council   [PDF, 1.3M]
  
  Anne Prestamo
• Asia Pacific Council   [PDF, 607K]
  
  Vic Elliot
• EMEA Council  [PDF, 1.5M]
  
  Gwenda Thomas

WorldCat in the Global Information Space: The National Library of Australia/OCLC Partnership   [PDF, 1M]

Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing and Innovation, National Library of Australia

WorldCat in the Global Information Space: Issues and Priorities in Enhancing WorldCat Quality   [PDF, 818K]

Berndt Dugall, Direktor/Librarian, Universität Frankfurt and

Karen Calhoun, VP Metadata

Libraries in Society   [PDF, 807K]

Jennifer Younger, moderator

Report from Membership Committee   PDF, 193K]

Discussion and vote on endorsement of procedures for handling unresolved cases of disputed use of data extracted from WorldCat Wilbur Stolt, Director of Libraries, University of North Dakota

Poul Erlandsen, Head of Section, The Royal Library —CULIS, Denmark

Bruce Newell, Member, Board of Trustees

Discussion and Vote on Guidelines for Contributions to WorldCat   [PDF, 129K]

Henriettede Kok, MPM, Public Library, BibliotheekMidden-Brabant, The Netherlands

Carol Pitts Diedrichs, Director of University Libraries and Professor, The Ohio State University

Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management