OCLC Governance
and the
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Meeting
National 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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
Evolution of Governance Model
2009
Internationalisation
•
Members Council replaced by Global Council
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establishment of 3 Regional Councils
Americas
Asia Pacific
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
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global governance
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Evolution of Governance Model
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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 Council
Executive 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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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 >
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
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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Cost Sharing and Pricing
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
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Cost Sharing and Pricing
Assertions
3)
Should the argument for differential pricing be
accepted, the pricing structure should be influenced by
the following factors:
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4)
ability to pay
the value derived
level of contribution to the cooperative
promotion of new markets for OCLC services
group purchasing
transparency and simplicity
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
Asia Pacific Regional Council
Thank you
Vic Elliott
15 April 2010
Asia Pacific Regional Council