{"title":"Electronic error reporting via Internet in the VAX environment","authors":"S. A. Khosh-khui","doi":"10.1108/10650759510080742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510080742","url":null,"abstract":"Describes an electronic OCLC error reporting (OER) program developed at the Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, in response to the OCLC announcement that OCLC users could begin submitting bibliographic record change requests and duplicate record reports via Internet e‐mail. OER is a menu‐driven program written in VAX VMS which facilitates sending OCLC error reports by providing blank error‐report forms for various error‐reporting activities. This is accomplished by adding constant and system‐supplied information to the forms and then automatically sending the forms, while giving ample opportunities to review the accuracy of the outgoing report. Doing so provides more uniformity and accuracy in the reporting process and saves money and staff time. Suggests that, although the program is written for the SWT library, it may easily be modified and used by other compatible institutions.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122989801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Borrowing Update System: current status, future plans and technical elements","authors":"John Lewis","doi":"10.1108/10650759510080733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510080733","url":null,"abstract":"The Borrowing Update System (BUS) is a Windows‐based interlibrary loan package designed to facilitate common tasks related to record management and reporting. As a follow‐up to the initial article (which introduced the BUS), discusses the technical aspects with a look toward expansion issues.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126004150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a strategic planning framework for information technologies for libraries","authors":"U. Hofmann","doi":"10.1108/EUM0000000003971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003971","url":null,"abstract":"The fundamental structural change caused by information technologies not only affects the technical services of libraries but also shapes the library services that are being offered to the public. Libraries are possibly faced with a much more dangerous kind of competition than the one customary among direct competitors: the substitution competition caused by new information technologies. A first step for supporting the necessary strategic planning and decision‐making management is to collect information concerning assumptions, trends and structures of these technologies. In this context, it is a matter of reducing complexity in recognizing risks and trends in order to support the development of measures in terms of preliminary navigation. Based on structured expert interviews conducted in leading US libraries in the summer of 1991, the first level of the study is the sectors: general management, technologies, library services, value chain and resources. The internal pattern of the sectors consisted of con...","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130623794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building bridges between faculty and library staff with OCLC FirstSearch","authors":"Steven J. Herro","doi":"10.1108/10650759510080724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510080724","url":null,"abstract":"Describes how the library and biology disciplines of St Norbert College, Wisconsin, implemented First‐Search training of the BasicBiosis file for upper‐divisional biology students. Explains how the investment in FirstSearch affected payment on the paper Biological Abstracts and how the library and biology disciplines networked “like never before” to come to this agreement. The deal was made in Fall 1994.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130087192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OCLC Users′ Council meeting minutes, October 2‐4, 1994: a report","authors":"J. Ostendorf","doi":"10.1108/10650759510080715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510080715","url":null,"abstract":"Reports on the OCLC Users Council meeting of October 2‐4, 1994, which discussed, among other things: OCLC efforts to enhance PRISM; conversion work in Europe and in the Asia/Pacific region; the growth of FirstSearch; electronic library strategies; and research libraries projects.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133233128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library computerization: an inexpensive approach","authors":"Satish Kumar, D. C. Kar","doi":"10.1108/10650759510104970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759510104970","url":null,"abstract":"Describes the use of the CDS/ISIS bibliographic database package within the Tata Energy Research Institute Library in Delhi. Indicates the capabilities of the package and states the hardware requirements and package availability (from UNESCO). Assesses the applications of the package through a comprehensive survey of the literature on its use within libraries throughout the world.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128986335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The OLUC from an NACO point of View: Eliminating derived search keys","authors":"Daniel Canncasciato","doi":"10.1108/10650759410798477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759410798477","url":null,"abstract":"The current resurgence of cooperative cataloging initiatives requires that the Online Union Catalog (OLUC) search keys evolve to allow more precise searching. OCLC has made great strides recently in ways to search the OLUC (the scan title search being a tremendous improvement). Two recent events, combined with the cooperative cataloging activities, prompt this call for accelerated change in OLUC search mechanisms. Phrase searching, until now not available (the scan search is only partially there), must be brought into existence soon to support and promote the renewed emphasis on cooperative efforts. In doing so, we will all benefit. OCLC will get a more dynamic, cleaner database to market and, increasingly, to repackage and sell. Catalog departments worldwide will have a better source database and have an easier time making greater contributions in cooperative programs. As for the derived search keys, they don′t really need to die – withering from disuse would be fine.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"66 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114114476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclassification in the 1990s","authors":"Priya Rai","doi":"10.1108/10650759410798486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759410798486","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1960s the academic and large public libraries engaged in massive reclassification of their collections from Dewey Decimal to the Library of Congress Classification System. A search of the library literature of this decade indicates much publication activity on the topic of reclassification. While losing some momentum in the “trend to LC” during 1968‐1971 many libraries continued to reclassify into the 1970s.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125017573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training original catalogers to utilize CAT ME plus: An outline","authors":"Katherine H. Weimer","doi":"10.1108/10650759410798495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759410798495","url":null,"abstract":"For catalogers who want to simplify their work and lower costs by working offline, OCLC′s Cataloging Microenhancer Plus is an obvious solution. The Cataloging Microenhancer CAT ME Plus stores workforms, and allows the addition of constant data and blocking/copying of data to original records.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124198838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplementing electronic databases: The OCLC FirstSearch Option","authors":"Rachel Cassel, Frank Mols","doi":"10.1108/10650759410798503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/10650759410798503","url":null,"abstract":"In early 1993 Binghamton University Libraries began discussing methods to supplement our collection of electronic journal indexes available on mainframe tapes or CD‐ROM. FirstSearch files were chosen because of the selection available, the advantages of remote storage over local data storage and maintenance, and the ease with which we could provide access through our newly‐developed public Internet interface. This article summarizes our access to electronic indexes, present statistical data on FirstSearch usage for the 1993/94 academic year, and provides possible explanations for the resulting searching activity patterns. Such information may be helpful to other libraries as they implement FirstSearch access.","PeriodicalId":448168,"journal":{"name":"Oclc Systems & Services","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126573762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}