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OCLC Governanceand the
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council MeetingNational Library of Australia
15 April 2010
Asia Pacific Regional Council
Evolution of Governance Model
1967 Ohio College Library Center (OCLC)• Ohio-based governance
1977 Expansion beyond Ohio• establishment of Users Council (with enlarged Board of Trustees)• US-wide governance
1981 Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
2001 Expansion beyond US• Users Council re-established as Members Council (with delegates drawn from countries outside US) • US-plus governance
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Evolution of Governance Model
2009 Internationalisation
• Members Council replaced by Global Council
• establishment of 3 Regional CouncilsAmericas
Asia Pacific
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
• global governance
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Evolution of Governance Model
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Asia Pacific Regional Council
Charge
To serve as• a unit of OCLC governance which elects Member Delegates to the Global Council
• an incubator of new ideas within the OCLC cooperative
• a two-way conduit to allow the broadest, most inclusive conversation among OCLC staff, Members, participants and interested parties
• an inclusive forum and a vehicle to allow interested memory institutions to learn more about OCLC and opportunities for participation in the OCLC cooperative
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Asia Pacific Regional Council
Officers
Chair
Vice Chair and Chair-Elect
Council Secretary
Executive Committee
Officers plus 4 members
Nominating Committee
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Asia Pacific Regional CouncilExecutive Committee
Chewleng Beh (Chair) National Library Board, Singapore
Vic Elliott (Vice Chair) The Australian National University, Australia
Jieh Hsiang (Council Secretary) National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Janet Copsey The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Tetsuo Kato Waseda University, Japan
Samson Soong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Fangyu Xue Tsinghua University, China
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Asia Pacific Regional Council
First Asia Pacific Regional Council Membership Conference, Beijing, 7-8 September 2009
• over 100 delegates
• focus on resource sharing and collaboration
• program of presentations and discussions
• regional issues identified
Agenda and presentations available at< http://www.oclc.org/multimedia/2009/files/aprc/apc_september09.htm >
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Membership
Any library or other memory institution that embraces the OCLC values of collaboration and sharing is welcome. Institutions worldwide become members of OCLC by contractually agreeing to contribute intellectual content or share resources. Our cooperative is strengthened by our membership’s diversity, such as geographical, institutional type, or size.
Membership and Governance Protocols
8 June 2009
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Membership
Ways of sharing
• contributing metadata
• sharing holdings information
• sharing staff resources and expertise, such as in a reference cooperative
• making digital content available to other members
• sharing materials using OCLC services
• contributing to OCLC in other ways indicating an agreed upon significant level of engagement with the cooperative
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Global Task Force on Cost Sharing and Pricing
Established September 2009 with charge
‘to study and make recommendations about OCLC cost sharing and differential pricing to further strengthen OCLC products and services for libraries and cultural institutions and their users worldwide’
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Assertions for consideration
1) Cost sharing and pricing should support the public purposes of OCLC
2) Differential pricing is advantageous to OCLC and its members
Cost Sharing and Pricing
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Cost Sharing and PricingAssertions
3) Should the argument for differential pricing be accepted, the pricing structure should be influenced by the following factors:
• ability to pay• the value derived• level of contribution to the cooperative• promotion of new markets for OCLC services• group purchasing• transparency and simplicity
4) Member engagement is critical to success
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OCLC’s Public Purpose
The purpose or purposes for which the Corporation is formed are to establish, maintain and operate a computerized library network and to promote the evolution of library use, of libraries themselves, and of librarianship, and to provide processes and products for the benefit of library users and libraries, including such objectives as increasing availability of library resources to individual library patrons and reducing the rate of rise of library per-unit costs, all for the fundamental public purpose of furthering ease of access to and use of the ever-expanding body of worldwide scientific, literary and educational knowledge and information.
Articles of Incorporation
20 May 2002
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Thank you
Vic Elliott
15 April 2010
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