OCLC Newsletter

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Number 215 1995

OCLC Newsletter
Number 215, May/June 1995
ISSN: 0163-898X

Good News on the Economic Front
  by K. Wayne Smith.............................................3

                              Membership News
OCLC NetFirst to improve end-user access to Internet resources..4-5
Chapman & Hall announces new editorial staff
  by Nancy Fogarty and Dean Smith...............................5
University of Chicago logs 57 millionth ILL using FirstSearch/PRISM ILL
Link............................................................6-7
University of Rochester sets new record logging 58 millionth
ILL.............................................................6-7
OCLC PRISM service availability extended........................7
A changing of the guard: OCLC's new state-of-the-art PRISM hardware
  by George Promenschenkel......................................8-10
OCLC Statistics.................................................10
Series and MeSH headings correction projects begin..............11
OCLC Forest Press Home Page now available on WWW................11
Washington Report: House and Senate debate telecommunications reform
  by Elinor Hashim..............................................12
Top 1,000 serials on World Wide Web.............................12
In Memoriam: Kevin Flaherty, executive director of Michigan Library
Consortium
  by Aaron Smith................................................13
Susan Gangl is named OCLC on the Front Line Award Winner........13
Pamela Brown appointed to Dewey Editorial Policy Committee......14
OCLC trainers receive international award for CBT...............14
OCLC exhibits, meetings at the American Library Association Annual
Conference......................................................15
                               International
SABINET hosts OCLC Europe staff visit to South Africa
  by David Buckle...............................................16-17
92 Institutions in Japan begin trial use of FirstSearch.........16
OCLC Europe Users' Forum Held...................................18-19
End-user Services and the Electronic Library
  by Richard Heseltine..........................................19-21
Seminar on library integration held in Romania
  by Janet Mitchell.............................................20-21
                                 Research
Carol Tenopir discusses electronic reference services
  by Mark Crook.................................................22-23
Annual Review of OCLC Research now available....................24
                             Resource Sharing
Working to improve access to information
  by Collette Mak...............................................25-27
Resource sharing strategy white paper available.................27
OCLC ILL Fee Management service tracks interlibrary loan
charges.........................................................28
FirstSearch increasingly provides access to materials
  by Tam Dalrymple..............................................28-29
OCLC ILL PRISM Transfer moves local ILL files to the PRISM service
  by Bob Murphy.................................................29
ILL ME for Windows being developed
  by Mark Stemley...............................................29
Development of new PRISM ILL reports under way
  by Erik Jul...................................................30-31
Custom Holdings to be added to PRISM ILL
  by Myrtle Myers...............................................30
PRISM UL/NAD update
  by Myrtle Myers...............................................31
                                 Interview
Christine Deschamps: the director of the library of the University Paris V
(Rene Descartes) discusses resource sharing in Europe...........32-35
                               Product News
New OCLC cataloging service, PromptCat, is now available........36
FirstSearch Web Server to Debut This Fall
  by Robert Smith...............................................36
ProceedingsFirst and PapersFirst now available on FirstSearch and
EPIC............................................................37
American Business Information now available on FirstSearch,
EPIC............................................................37
Dissertation Abstracts now on FirstSearch.......................38
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books added to FirstSearch and
EPIC............................................................38
New versions of OCLC SiteSearch software products introduced....38

Submitted by: BUBL Administrator  (cijs27@vms.strath.ac.uk)
               Fri, 23 Jun 1995 10:48:17 EDT