OCLC Micro: Volume 8 Issue 6
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OCLC News
Don MarmionHarvard University Library officials signed a six‐year, multimillion‐dollar contract with OCLC that will involve computer processing by OCLC of bibliographic records for some 5…
International News
Dan MarmionBibliographic information from one of the world's most celebrated botanic library and archive collections, the Library and Archive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will be added…
OCLC Users Council Meeting Report: October 4–6, 1992
Kenneth J. BiermanThe Users Council's theme for the 1992/93 year is Transforming Technologies: Reconstructing Libraries for the New Information Community. To begin this, the October Users Council…
Open a Window and Let in Your PASSPORT
Judith A. CarterCongratulations are in order! There's a new arrival in my house. My husband and I have welcomed into our lives an active, fully operating, 386DX 40MHz computer. Don't laugh, I'm…
What's New in Public Services?
Melinda Townsel‐WinstonThat's right, OCLC has added five new databases to The FirstSearch Catalog and EPIC service. Now available on The First‐Search Catalog and the EPIC service are Contents‐First…
Interview: Tam Dalrymple
Melinda Townsel‐WinstonI decided to interview Tarn Dalrymple after reading comments she made about an article intended for the Public Services column. I noticed her protective approach to OCLC services…
Recycle an OCLC M300? Or breaking up is hard to do
James Speed HensingerConsiders the problems associated with OCLC′s decision to guaranteecontinued support for the OCLC M300 and M300XT workstations after July1993. Examines some libraries′ plans to…
Yellow bricks: combination lettering on label sets using PASSPORT
Emily BadertscherDescribes in detail the editing procedures for producingdouble‐high letters for spine labels individually from the computerkeyboard, and still typing charge cards on an older…
Using the OCLC GOVDOC service
Martha ChildersReports on the implementation and use of the OCLC GOVDOC, theonline service providing cataloguing for federal government documents,and finding cost‐efficient and productive means…