OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 9 Issue 2
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OCLC News
Milo NelsonThe largest authority control corrections project in OCLC's history has begun with automated soft‐ware programs that work their way through the twenty‐eight million record Online…
OCLC Users Council Meeting Report: February 7–9, 1993
JoEllen OstendorfThe effects of electronic access on the provision of information continue to be the focus of the OCLC Users Council. Building upon the Internet theme of the last Users Council…
A fever of excitement over keyword searching
Judith A. CarterConsider the prospects for keyword searching with the advent ofuser‐access to PRISM interlibrary lending system in December 1992.Offers some helpful avice for starting out with…
ILL‐Conceived Ideas
Susan RaschkeWelcome to The Column concerning interlibrary services in the OCLC universe! Dare if you will to join me in my continuing mission to infuse new life, explore strange new visions…
The SOurce DLC qualifier and virtual employees
Daniel CannCasciatoDiscusses ways that the Cataloguing Department at the University ofOregon managed to eliminate a cataloguing backlog. Discusses the changein routine for acquisitions and…
Doing ILL with an Edsel
Jane SmithConsiders the significant increase in interlibrary loan requests onOCLC. Details how one interlibrary loan department uses the OCLC to copewith an increasing workload. Briefly…
Learning about keyword searching in PRISM
Dan LiebtagReviews the experience of a County Library with the EPIC and PRISMinterlibrary lending systems in improving efficiency and productivity ofsubject and keyword searches. Emphasises…
Local systems implementation: working smarter with OCLC
Nelia WurangianAddresses some issues that enhance efficiency in databasepreparation and ways to reduce cost and complexity in procedures. Looksat database creation, in particular building…
Programming function keys to speed up Union listing
Martha GunnarsonShows how customizing function keys can make adding, deleting andediting LDRs more efficient and effective. Reviews the steps forprogramming function keys, filling in the SCHD…
The PZI interlibrary loan function key template
David KaufmanLooks at some of the enhancements in interlibrary lendingfacilitated by the latest interlibrary lending (ILL) function key editorthat is included with PASSPORT software. Shows how…
A practical method for using interlibrary loan data to assist librarians with collection equipment
Scott A. MellendorfExplains the method used at Saginaw Valley State University tocollect the Library of Congress Classification Code using interlibraryloan data. Details data collection using…
OCLC/AMIGOS collection analysis CD: broadening the scope of use
Sherry L. VellucciExamines the OCLC/AMIGOS collection analysis CD (CACD) and itspotential applications that can assist in the labour‐intensive processof evaluation and collection development…