OCLC‐To‐Go: The Portable OCLC, Crosstalk, and Other Miscellany

Abstract

Has this happened to you? You're out of your library extolling the virtues of OCLC to your friends or colleagues and you want to give an on‐the‐spot demonstration or send an interlibrary loan request, but alas, you didn't have the muscle to bring your M300 Workstation with you. If you have one of the new lightweight modem‐equipped laptop computers, you no longer need to feel bound to the confines of your library building to use OCLC for inter‐library loan purposes. You can dial in to the OCLC system wherever there's a telephone line. Even if you don't have a laptop computer, you can dial into the OCLC system from any computer that has a modem and a communications program. You can market your library's services to outside individuals or groups without having to stay in your library and, when you talk about OCLC, you can also give a live demonstration of how it works.

Citation

Decker, L. (1988), "OCLC‐To‐Go: The Portable OCLC, Crosstalk, and Other Miscellany", OCLC Micro, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 10-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055894