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“Institutional repositories” is a new concept for collecting, managing, disseminating, and preserving scholarly works created in digital form by faculty and students in individual universities and colleges. It is born out of problems with the current scholarly communication model structured by commercial journal publishers and vendors. To properly implement these repositories, libraries will need to recruit librarians who possess digital collection management and Open Archive Information System (OAIS) management skills. In addition, training faculty and students to use OAIS, helping them prepare their digital products, involving them in institution‐wide policy making, and setting repository goals would be some of the new tasks that libraries will face.

The electronic resource management initiative (ERMI) is one of the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) active initiatives. The purposes of this initiative are to develop XML‐based metadata schemata/DTDs and tools for managing data associated with licensing issues. Developing workflow, identifying best practices, promoting the standards, and engaging library system vendors to implement this system are the other goals of ERMI. This article describes the recent progress made by ERMI.

More than 100 macros have been written and made available on the Web since the debut of PFW in 1996. Evidently, OML has benefited many OCLC system users in automating their jobs. Nevertheless, finding the desired macros takes considerable time and effort because Web sites that provide macros present them in widely varied formats. This article presents the Web sites that currently provide macros for sharing, initiates the discussion on Web macro presentation guidelines, evaluates the presented Web sites based on these guidelines, and provides a source list of useful macros specifically for OCLC subsystem applications.

Describes a methodology for creating subjct bibliographies using a program called Subject Bibliography Generator (SBG) which processes OCLC MARC records, selecting records for the desired subject from the subject heading tag field, which can then be tidied up using a word processor. Gives illustrations of how the program works.

Our New Title Booklist is a special service provided by the Catalog Department of the Maxwell Library to inform the faculty, students, and staff at Bridgewater State College of the new materials acquired by the library each month (about 1,000 new titles every month). The main entry body of the Booklist is arranged in 32 very broad subject headings (fig. 1), most of which are based on LC Classification Schedules such as EDUCATION and HISTORY. But some headings are actually locations, for example, REFERENCE is used for our REFERENCE collection and CURRICULUM is used for textbooks, instructional aids, and the children's and young adult collections. Within individual subject headings, entries are arranged by call numbers (fig. 2). The cover page is a brief index that leads individual departments to their relevant subject headings (fig. 3).

The PRISM SaveScreen facility and function keys provide alternatives in producing data for budget planning and PRISM search cost estimation, and also facilitating PRISM search training. By combining the SaveScreen function key with frequently used PRISM function keys such as 〈SEND〉, 〈DISPLAY RECORD SEND〉, 〈FOR〉, and 〈BAC〉, the activities of a PRISM user can be recorded and stored in a predefined data file for later analyses. For example, from the results of the analyses, the usage levels of OCLC workstations and the approximate monthly PRISM search cost of each workstation were obtained. In addition, based on the recorded search activities, a retraining in PRISM search can be planned. Certainly, by familiarizing oneself with PRISM search commands and search structures, a user can perform cost‐effective and efficient searches. Toward that end, also presents methods of performing cost‐effective PRISM searches.

The purpose of this article is to describe the reasons people decide to attend library school.

The article focuses on motivations discussed in the relevant literature.

The article finds that service to others is a consistent reason for entering the profession.

The article is the author’s farewell.

Full‐Service Union List Subsystem. On July 1, 1990, OCLC opened the Union List Subsystem to non‐serial local data records (LDRs). This new capability allows libraries to create local data records for all MARC formats, not just serial items.

On April 2, 1987, IBM unveiled a series of long‐awaited new hardware and software products. The new computer line, dubbed the Personal Systems 30, 50, 60, and 80, seems destined to replace the XT and AT models that are the mainstay of the firm's current personal computer offerings. The numerous changes in hardware and software, while representing improvements on previous IBM technology, will require users purchasing additional computers to make difficult choices as to which of the two IBM architectures to adopt.