What's New on OCLC's Web Sites

February 18, 1999

• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include:
  • Maricopa Community College Libraries (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
  • New URL for University of Northern Colorado Libraries (Greeley, Colorado, USA) [OCLC]

February 17, 1999

• Updated IP-address recognition:
• Recommended basic URL is http://firstsearch.oclc.org/ ( no port number) in the instructions for IP-address recognition access to FirstSearch Web and the Electronic Collections Online standalone interface
• Added instructions for selecting the French or Spanish version of FirstSearch through IP-address recognition access
• OCLC System Statistics updated [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

February 16, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts, Vol 2. no.7  February 15, 1999 [OCLC]
• News Releases:
  • OCLC Improves International Access to Its Services
  • Dewey for Windows, Version 1.20 Available
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include University of South Alabama (Mobile, Alabama, USA) [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

February 15, 1999

• OCLC to Participate in DuPage Periodical Database Teleconference [OCLC]

February 12, 1999

• OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets Update, revised [OCLC]
• OCLC CJK Services: Expanding Access to East Asian Materials updated [OCLC]
• Bases de datos de los Servicios FirstSearch de OCLC (en Español) updated [OCLC]
• CatME para Windows do OCLC Guia de consulta rápida (em Português) [OCLC]

February 11, 1999

• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]

February 10, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 6 February 8, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC's Featured Member: Smithsonian Institution Libraries [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Report of the Task Force on Shared Commitments to the Principles of Cooperation, a PowerPoint presentation from the canceled January Users Council Meeting [OCLC]
• Update to Dewey for Windows Reference Card [Dewey]

February 9, 1999

• Learning to Use OCLC CJK Software is now available.
  A Word 6.0 version is also available for downloading via FTP. [OCLC]
• News Release: Bethel College Library Enters 88 Millionth ILL Request
• OCLC Abstracts, Vol 2. no.6  February 8, 1999 [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Master Enhance List updated [OCLC]
• Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Report: January 1999 [Dewey]
• New CatME Tip:  Importing Original Records from Local System [OCLC]

February 8, 1999

• OCLC CJK Software Quick Reference is now available.
  A Word 6.0 version is also available for downloading via FTP. [OCLC]
• Passport for Windows User Guide Available on the Web [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 51-52, 1999 no. 01) [Dewey]

February 5, 1999

• OCLC New FirstSearch ALA Midwinter '99 PowerPoint presentation [OCLC]
• Update to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative FAQ [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include a new URL for Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina, USA) [OCLC]

February 4, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 2. no 5 February 1, 1999 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• Update to the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Standards Working Group [OCLC]
• Passport for Windows Listserv Archive updated and moved [Abilene Christian University Web Site]

February 3, 1999

• OCLC's Featured Member Library: Marquette University Law Library [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 5 February 1, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC to Participate in DuPage Periodical Database Teleconference on February 26 [OCLC]
• Local Data Record Updating Planning Guide Now Available in PDF [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• DC& Changes and Corrections for DDC 21 and Abridged Edition 13:
  • DC& Volume 6, Number 2, December 1998 (PDF)
  • Table 2 Geographic Areas: Great Britain and Republic of South Africa, February 1999 (PDF) [Dewey]

February 2, 1999

• OCLC CJK Software Guided Tour [OCLC]
• Please participate in the Office of Research online survey about Web data, statistics, and analysis for librarians. [OCLC]
• Updates to Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Working Groups [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts, Vol 2. no.5  February 1, 1999 [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include a new URL for St. Bonaventure University, Friedsam Memorial Library (St. Bonaventure, New York, USA) [OCLC]

February 1, 1999

• News Releases:
  • British Library Document Supply Centre To Offer ILL Rush Service
  • OCLC CJK 3.0 Software Offers New Features, Functionality
• Updated PromptCat Vendor list [OCLC]
• List of OCLC Services revised [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Dewey for Windows Product Overview revised [Dewey]
• New and Changed DDC Entries, January 1999 [Dewey]

January 29, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 4 January 25, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC Reference News, December 1998, No. 39 [OCLC]
• New OCLC FirstSearch service overview updated [OCLC]

Janurary 28, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 2. no 4 January 25, 1999 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• PowerPoint Presentations from Canceled January Users Council Meeting Now Available
  • OCLC Update--Phyllis Spies
  • New FirstSearch: An In-Depth Update--Sonya Oliver [OCLC]
• The Word 6 version of Learning to Use OCLC CJK Software is now available via FTP. [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

January 27, 1999

• Getting Started with OCLC CJK Software, Second Edition is now available.
  A Word 6.0 version is also available for downloading via FTP. [OCLC]
• ALA Midwinter Meeting Report [Dewey]

January 26, 1999

• FirstSearch documents updated:
  • Database List
  • Summary of FirstSearch Database Features
  • Brief Descriptions of Databases [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts, Vol 2. no.4  January 25, 1999 [OCLC]
• Passport macro, authwfm.mbk, updated [OCLC]

January 25, 1999

• News Releases:
  • OCLC Announces Essay Contest on Interlibrary Loan
  • Terry Noreault Promoted to Vice President, OCLC Office of Research
  • George Needham Named Vice President, OCLC Member Services [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 2. no 3 January 18, 1999 [OCLC]
• The Word 6 version of Getting Started with OCLC CJK Software is now available via FTP. [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include a new URL for Ohio University--Athens (Athens, Ohio, USA) [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 49-50) [Dewey]

January 22, 1999

• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include Providence Hospital, Helen L. DeRoy Medical Library (Southfield, Michigan, USA) [OCLC]

January 21, 1999

• OCLC AsiaLink service overview [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 3 January 18, 1999 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online Publisher and Journal Information. Changes made to publishers list regarding participation in Print Subscribers Program. [OCLC]

January 20, 1999

• OCLC Training Materials Web Site Now Available [OCLC]
• OCLCBits and Pieces, January 1999 [OCLC]
• AsiaLink Set Order Form updated for 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC AsiaLink Collection Development Service: Fee Schedule and Estimated Material Costs for 1999 [OCLC]

January 19, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts, vol. 2, no. 3, January 18, 1999 [OCLC]

January 18, 1999

• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include:
  • NOAA Coastal Services Center (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)
  • Poplar Creek Public Library District (Streamwood, Illinois, USA) [OCLC]
• OCLC Canada Training Announcement [OCLC Canada]

January 15, 1999

• Two OCLC Access Suite components to be upgraded this weekend
  Updates to the OCLC Access Suite download page will be available on January 17.
  The following pages were updated:
  • OCLC Access Suite
    • Service overview
    • Components
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Order form
  • OCLC CJK Software 3.0
    • Service overview
    • End of Support of OCLC CJK 2.11 announcement
  • OCLC Cataloging Micro Enhancer 1.10
    • Function Key Template
    • Learning to Use
    • Quick Reference
    • Getting Started
    • Service overview
    • CatME Enhancements announcement [OCLC]
• Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch Web
  • A new improvement now allows users to get title lists from the Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch Web page (http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/fs/fstitle/index.asp) more quickly than ever. All list results are now displayed in pages of 25 titles as the default display (this can be customized to any number of titles, including all titles on one page).
  • Added title information for Business and Management Practices, PsycINFO, and MDX Health Digest
  • Updated title information for OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, Aids and Cancer Research, BasicBIOSIS, EBSCO MasterFILE, EconLit, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, and Periodical Abstracts
• 1998 "Contributed CJK" Records Annual Report [OCLC]
• Technical Bulletin 229: Electronic Documents through the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service [OCLC]

January 13, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 2 January 11, 1999 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• OCLC Newsletter, No. 236, November/December [OCLC]
• OCLC's Featured Member Library: University of Maryland Libraries
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Libraries Using the DDC updated to include Toccoa Falls College, Seby Jones Library (Toccoa Falls, GA, USA) [Dewey]

January 12, 1999

• OCLC Z39.50 Cataloging Service product information sheet updated [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts Vol 2, no.2  January 11, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en Español):
  • Vol. 1, no. 30, December 21,1998
  • Vol. 1, no. 31, December 28,1998
  • Vol. 2, no. 1, January 4, 1999 [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

January 11, 1999

• OCLC Users Council Janaury Meeting Canceled [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 48) [Dewey]

January 8, 1999

• Technical Bulletin 228: OCLC-MARC Authority Update 1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC ILL Direct Request: Helping Your Library Increase Productivity updated [OCLC]
• OCLC Conference Schedule updated [OCLC]
• Simplification of Table 3. Subdivisions for the Arts, for Individual Literatures, for Specific Literary Forms Discussion Paper [Dewey]
• Dewey Breakfast Update at ALA Midwinter '99 [Dewey]

January 7, 1999

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 2. no 1 January 4, 1999 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• Infotrieve is now an OCLC ILL Document Supplier [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts Vol 2, no.1  January 4, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 1. no 30 December 21, 1998 [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include a new URL for University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) [OCLC]
• Libraries Using the DDC updated to include National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) [Dewey]

January 5, 1999

• On October 21, 1998, WLN and OCLC announced plans to merge. On January 1, 1999, the merger was completed, and a new entity--the OCLC/WLN Pacific Northwest Service Center--was established. About the OCLC/WLN Merger includes links to the following items:
  • Merger News
  • WLN's Web Site
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • An Interview with Don Muccino
  • Inquiry Form [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 1. no 31 December 28, 1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Europe News Update, December 1998 [OCLC Europe]

January 4, 1999

• News Release: OCLC and WLN Agree To Merge [OCLC]

December 30, 1998

• OCLC's Featured Member: Spangler Library, Ohio Dominican College [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• ALA Midwinter '99 Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) Activities updated to include CORC: Resource description tools built with OCLC SiteSearch software
  (RSVP online)[OCLC]
• OCLC PromptCat product information sheet updated [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• New and Changed DDC Entries, January 1999 [Dewey]
• Libraries Using the DDC updated to include a new URL for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL, USA) [Dewey]

December 29, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts Vol 1, no. 31 December 28, 1998 [OCLC]

December 28, 1998

• Guidelines for National Level Enhance Participants [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 46-47) [Dewey]
• Libraries Using the DDC updated to include Manchester College, Funderburg Library (North Manchester, IN, USA) [Dewey]

December 23, 1998

• OCLC's Featured Member: Grand Island Public Library [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]

December 22, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts Vol 1, no. 30 December 21, 1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Annual Report 1997/98 [OCLC]
• News Releases:
  • The National Library of China Is Now an OCLC Member
  • University of Oregon Enters 87 Millionth OCLC ILL Request
  • Lori Burrington Appointed OCLC Assistant General Counsel [OCLC]
• “What the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service Means to Me” Essay Contest [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include Lamar University, Mary and John Gray Library (Beaumont, Texas, USA) [OCLC]
• OCLC System Statistics updated [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

December 21, 1998

• OCLC Bits and Pieces, December 1998 [OCLC]

December 18, 1998

• OCLC Interlibrary Loan Micro Enhancer Frequently Asked Questions revised [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 1. no 29 December 14,1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Cooperative Online Resource Catalog ALA Forum Agenda [OCLC]
• OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online journal and publisher information area has been updated with new data and enhanced to help keep information more current [OCLC]

December 17, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 1. no 29 December 14, 1998 [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include new URLs for:
  • Dallas Theological Seminary, Turpin Library (Dallas, Texas, USA)
  • State University of New York, College at Geneseo (Geneseo, New York, USA) [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

December 16, 1998

• OCLC Index of Activities at ALA Midwinter '99 including links to online registration and RSVP forms for:
  • Cooperative Online Resource Catalog meetings
  • OCLC/ARL Symposium
  • New FirstSearch Breakfast [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 1. no 28 December 7,1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en Español) Vol 1. no 27 November 30,1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC's Featured Member: Pickler Memorial Library at Truman State University [OCLC]

December 15, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts Vol 1, no. 29 December 14, 1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Cataloging Label Program information sheet updated [OCLC]
• OCLC Dedicated TCP/IP Access updated [OCLC]
• Bases de datos de los Servicios FirstSearch de OCLC updated [OCLC]

December 14, 1998

• Web site for the New OCLC FirstSearch [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 44-45) [Dewey]

December 11, 1998

• OCLC Newsletter, No. 235, September/October [OCLC]
• OCLC Cataloging Label Program Frequently Asked Questions [OCLC]

December 10, 1998

• New: FirstSearch Bibliographic Instruction Web site [OCLC]
• Overview of OCLC activities and meetings at ALA [OCLC]
• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• Annual Review of OCLC Research, 1998 [OCLC]
• Two new databases to be added to FirstSearch this weekend and listed in Database Delivery Options and Documentation:
  • Alt-HealthWatch
  • Business & Management Practices
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

December 9, 1998

• OCLC's Featured Member:  University of Wyoming Libraries, Coe Library [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 1. no 28 December 7, 1998 [OCLC]
• OCLC Users Council Meeting, January 10-12, 1999 [OCLC]
• OCLC Users Council 1998/99 Annual Plan [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include a new URL for Merrimack College, McQuade Library (North Andover, Massachussets, USA) [OCLC]

December 8, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts Vol 1, no. 28 December 7, 1998 [OCLC]
• News Releases:
  • Zarephath Bible Institute Is 14,000th FirstSearch User
  • Subject Headings for Children, Second Edition, Available [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include
  • Elizabeth City State University, G.R. Little Library (Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA)
  • New URL for Mercer University Main Library (Macon, Georgia, USA)
  • University of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas and St. Croix, Virgin Islands) [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

December 7, 1998

• OCLC ALA Midwinter '99 Activities:
  • OCLC/ARL Symposium:  "New Directions in Resource Sharing"
  • New FirstSearch Service Breakfast [OCLC]

December 4, 1998

• OCLC Abstracts (en français): Vol 1. no 27 November 30, 1998 [OCLC]

December 3, 1998

• NetFirst Calendar Planner [OCLC]
• OCLC WorldCat Collection Sets Update now includes links to 24 information sheets. [OCLC]

December 2, 1998

• OCLC's Featured Member: University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System [OCLC]
• Links to OCLC Library Web Sites updated to include
  • King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
  • King College, E. W. King Library (Bristol, Tennessee, USA)
  • Toccoa Falls College, Seby Jones Library (Toccoa Falls, Georgia, USA) [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]

December 1, 1998

• Visit OCLC at Online Information '98 in London [OCLC]
• OCLC Conference Schedule updated [OCLC]
• OCLC Abstracts Vol 1, no. 27 November 30, 1998 [OCLC]
• Updated Employment Opportunities at OCLC [OCLC]
• Updated: OCLC's CIP Record Upgrade Project Specifications [OCLC]
• LCSH/DDC Numbers of Current Interest: New Headings
  (Weekly List 1998 nos. 42-43) [Dewey]

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