OCLC Record Use Policy Council
The Record Use Policy Council has begun its work which will culminate in a new draft policy and recommendations for implementation to the Chair of the OCLC Board of Trustees and OCLC President and CEO, for review and approval by the OCLC Board of Trustees in midyear 2010. As we carry out our charge, we will seek to understand today's environment as it relates to the creation, use and transfer of data and articulate principles of shared data creation consonant with the values of the OCLC cooperative. We will use a formal, transparent process for vetting the new draft policy with the OCLC Regional Councils and the OCLC Global Council as the representatives of the OCLC membership. We are mindful of the vibrant library community we represent and we will seek ways to strengthen our community.
At any time, you can send your input to us at recorduse@oclc.org which is a list set up for the use of the Record Use Policy Council members, or post comments to us here.
For more information on the Record Use Policy Council, its members and its charge, please visit the Record Use Policy Council page on the OCLC web site.
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
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You still do not get it; you continue to be seeking to SELL and LICENSE the content libraries created; you do not own that creation. If Libraries wish to use/sell/give away their own cataloging records which you also have a copy of, and supposedly retain for them, that's their right. You cannot claim ownership of the work of the libraries or the catalogers, and then SELL or LICENSE that to others for profit or to make money. It's not yours to sell or license...
I am so disappointed in this process, and OCLC. You continue to attempt to control the records created by the member libraries. You, not us, are trying to limit access, to cataloging information.
Best,
DrWeb
*speaking only for himself*
Dear Dr. Web,
Thanks for your comments. The members of the Record Use Policy Council hope that you will take the time to review the new draft policy once it becomes available for public review in early April. We believe the new policy is quite different than the one that was previously proposed and withdrawn, and that it does a better job explaining the need for a policy. In the meantime, in case you have not yet seen it, we have supplied a recent update on our work and intentions at http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/council/default.htm. We look forward to hearing from you again once you have had a chance to review the new draft. -Record Use Policy Council
In the glossary we are treated to a definition of the public good. However, this phrase does not appear specifically in the document. The text implies that WorldCat is not a public good, but rather a co-op, or club, as the definition states. Was something left out? Why not just say it somewhere in the document for all to see - OCLC WorldCat is not a public good?
Dear BreakfastClub,
The use of the term "public good" appears in Section 2, letter D, in the paragraph following the numbered list. It reads "The fact that OCLC has a public purpose does not mean that WorldCat is a 'public good' in the economic sense."
--Record Use Policy Council