History of the record use policy

In September 2009, the OCLC Board of Trustees convened the Record Use Policy Council to engage the global library community in developing the next generation of the WorldCat record use policy. The intent was to recommend to the OCLC Board a new policy that would be aligned with the present and future information landscape. The new policy, WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative, went into effect August 1, 2010 and replaces the Guidelines for Use and Transfer of OCLC Derived Records, developed in 1987. The work of the Record Use Policy Council has now concluded.

WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative effective August 1, 2010

Our 12-member Record Use Policy Council undertook a detailed investigation of the issues and drafted a new policy that we introduced for community review in April 2010— WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative. More than 275 comments were gathered via e-mail, phone, meetings and letters, in an online forum, and by monitoring blogs, listservs and Twitter. Your comments resulted in substantive additions and changes to the draft. At the end of May 2010, we submitted our revised policy statement to the OCLC Board, which approved the document during its June meeting.

OCLC Record Use Policy Council

OCLC Record Use Policy Council Co-Chairs

Barbara Gubbin Director, Jacksonville Public Library, USA

Jennifer Younger President Elect, OCLC Global Council and Edward H. Arnold Director of Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame, USA

OCLC Record Use Policy Council Members

	ChewLeng Beh Global Council Delegate; 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		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

Liaison to the OCLC Board of Trustees

Larry P. Alford Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees and Dean of University Libraries, Temple University, USA