OCLC Newsletter
ISSN: 0163-898X
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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