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Membership criteria

OCLC's Membership Criteria and corresponding services and activities are proposed by OCLC staff and reviewed by the Membership Committee on an annual basis. The Membership Committee is comprised of Global Council member delegates and members of the Board of Trustees. Any changes must be approved by the Global Council and the Board of Trustees. Here are the current criteria and corresponding services and activities that qualify institutions for membership. An institution must complete at least one of the following activities related to an OCLC service within the past three years:

Membership Criteria as outlined in OCLC's membership definition Qualifying Cooperative Services and/or Activities
  • Contributing Metadata
  • Sharing Holdings Information
  • Sharing staff resources and expertise, such as in a reference cooperative
  • QuestionPoint: Includes those libraries with QuestionPoint activity that benefits the cooperative, such as contributing to the global knowledge base, referring or receiving questions for the cooperative, etc.
  • Making digital content available to other members
  • CONTENTdm: Includes those CONTENTdm libraries that load holdings to WorldCat
  • Sharing materials using OCLC services
  • WorldCat Resource Sharing (WCRS): any library with borrowing or lending activity, including libraries using WCRS under another entity's contract, such as a state or national library
  • Contributing to OCLC in other ways (in the future appended to this list) indicating an agreed upon significant level of engagement with the cooperative
  • None identified for FY10 or FY11

OCLC Membership Committee

  • Bruce Newell, (Chair), Director, Montana Library Network (retired); OCLC Board Member
  • Sandra (Sandy) Yee, Dean of the Wayne State University Libraries and Library and Information Science Program, Detroit, Michigan; OCLC Board Member
  • Kathleen Imhoff, Library Consultant; OCLC Board Member
  • Poul Erlandsen, Head of Section, The Royal Library — CULIS; Member, OCLC EMEARC Executive Committee; OCLC Global Council Member Delegate
  • Samson Soong, University Librarian, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Lee Shau Kee Library; Member, OCLC Global Council Executive Committee; Vice-Chair/Chair-elect, OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Executive Committee Member
  • Wilbur Stolt, Director of Libraries, University of North Dakota, Chester Fritz Library; OCLC Global Council Member Delegate