OCLC Micro: Volume 8 Issue 1
Table of contents
OCLC News
Dan MarmionFrench Libraries Sign Retrospective Conversion Contract with OCLC OCLC will convert to machine‐readable form more than 600,000 bibliographic records for six French academic…
OCLC Users Council
Kenneth J. BiermanThe OCLC Users Council comprises sixty delegates elected by the regional OCLC networks. Delegates serve three‐year terms; on average, twenty new delegates are elected each year…
Public Services
Melinda Townsel‐WinstonBefore introducing the guest columnists for this issue, I want to remind you that one purpose of this column is to provide librarians with a forum whereby they can address the…
PASSPORT/PRISM: Search‐to‐produce ratio explained
Judith CarterDiscusses the change in the search‐to‐produce ratio from 3:1 to1.5:1 free searches for every produce or update command. Explains whatthe OCLC considers to be on the ′search′ side…
PRISM for the infrequent OCLC searcher: a training course (part I)
Claire B. DunkleOutlines a training programme developed for infrequent users ofOCLC who are apt to be discouraged by OCLC′s new PRISM interface.Addresses means of developing training…
PASSPORT’s function key editor – powerful, but maddening
Andrea WeasAcknowledges the frustrations commonly associated with OCLC′sPASSPORT software function key editor. Elucidates, step‐by‐step, sometechniques for recreating function keys more…
Search CD450 and local area networks: one library’s experience
Laura Gayle GreenDescribes the experience of the Indiana University Music Librarywith the Search CD450 software on alocal area network (LAN). Deals withthe LAN from a user′s perspective, outlining…