OCLC Newsletter

ISSN: 0163-898X

Index

Number 222

July/August 1996


Contents


Happy 25th Birthday, OLUC!

by K Wayne Smith
page 3


Membership News

OCLC President's Luncheon celebrates 25th anniversary of OLUC

page 4

Eden-Webster Library enters 35 millionth bibliographic record

page 5

New Hampshire State Library logs 67 millionth OCLC ILL

page 6

OCLC makes PURL software available free on the WWW

page 6-7

The Internet and why it's difficult to support

page 7

PALINET and West Virginia Library Commission produce FirstSearch training program

by Jaron Terry
page 8

NEBASE celebrates 20th anniversary

by Jo Budler
page 9

Participating Institutions available

by Peter Insabella
page 9

OCLC's Web site grows

by Debbie Hysell
page 10

PLA, SLA and ALA drawing winners announced

by Brad Gauder
page 11

Yin-Fen Pao receives LITA/OCLC minority scholarship

page 11

M.J. Rossman dies in car accident

by Cecelia Boone
page 12

George Brown appointed vice president at Product Development at OCLC

page 13

Donald Muccino elected to NISO Board

page 13


International

University of Sao Paulo joins OCLC

page 14

OCLC Asia Pacific Services celebrates 10th year

page 15

OCLC RETROCON service is converting records for UK universities.

page 16

NetFirst launched in London

by David Buckle
page 17

OCLC Europe visits libraries in Israel

page 17

DDC 21 introduced in the UK

by Katherine Brelsforth
page 18

David Buckle retires from OCLC Europe

by Duncan Irvine
page 19


Research

Scorpion Project explores using Dewey to organize the Web

by Keith Shafer
page 20-21

OCLC Office of Research publication available

page 21

OCLC awards 1996 research grants

page 22

OCLC Office of Research and Special Projects Division staff

page 23


OLUC

Four who were there

page 24

July/August Highlights

page 25-26

What the OCLC Online Union Means to Me

page 27-31


Product News

Dewey Decimal Classification: knowledge organization tool for the 21st century

by Joan S Mitchell
page 32-36

DDC Edition 21 Published

page 36

Practical guide revised for DDC 21

page 37

Dewey for Windows available

page 37

The UnCover Company becomes a FirstSearch document supplier

page 38

CINAHL now on FirstSearch and EPIC

page 38

FirstSearch service gets enhancements, new look on the Web

page 39

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature available on FirstSearch, EPIC

page 40

CatCD for Windows offers OCLC cataloging in offline, stand-alone environment

page 41

OCLC Selection now available

page 42

11 book vendors now participating in OCLC PromptCat service

page 43


Information Dimensions

BASIS Intranet Solution speeds construction of Web-based document management applications

page 44-45

Information Dimensions receives top exporting award from the state of Ohio

page 45

BASIS Document Manager helps the Institute of Gas Technology deliver information on the Web

page 46

Information Dimensions expands headquarters in move to OCLC campus

page 47

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Transcribed by Kirsty Smith, 02 October 1996