[Web4lib] Fw: Next-generation policy for WorldCat records--open for community review

[B.G. Sloan]

FYI...

Note: Draft policy is at: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/default.htm 


--- On Wed, 4/7/10, OCLC Member Update <emailpublishing at oclc.org> wrote:

From: OCLC Member Update <emailpublishing at oclc.org>
Subject: Next-generation policy for WorldCat records--open for community review
To: bernies at uillinois.edu
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 11:37 AM

April 7, 2010 

Next-generation policy for WorldCat records—open for community review
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, 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, send an e-mail with your thoughts to recorduse at oclc.org, or register to attend a webinar 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 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