OCLC Newsletter

ISSN: 0163-898x

Index

Number 224

November/December 1996


Contents


A Very Good Year for OCLC Member Libraries

by K Wayne Smith
page 3


Membership News

OCLC opens facility and names buildings

page 4

OCLC issues annual report

page 5

National Digital Library Program awards contract for digital conversion to Preservation Resources

page 6

OCLC support available through Web and e-mail

page 6-7

High Library at Elizabethan College enters 69 millionth ILL request

page 7

RETROCON project will make all Harvard-Yanching Library CJK records available online

page 8

MORE debuts at Marquette University

page 8

Bug busters are on the lookout for defects

by Jaron Terry
page 9

NACO libraries hit milestone

by George Promenschenkel
page 10

MOUG executive board meets

page 11


International

FirstSearch users form group in Japan

page 12

Phyllis B Spies speaks in Brazil

page 13

OCLC Europe celebrates OLUC's 25th

page 13


Research

OCLC seeks research proposals for the OCLC Library and Information Science Research Grant Competition

page 14


OLUC 25

Home sweet OCLC

by George Promenschenkel
page 15-16

November/December highlights

page 17-18


Mapping Information Access

Maps to 21st century access show how to avoid technological obsolescence

by Gary Houk and Brad Gauder
page 19-22


Product News

First group of publishing partners announced for new OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online

page 23-24

Pilot projects to produce shelf-ready materials

page 25

Resource kit for teaching DDC 21 available

page 26

OCLC NetFirst available via EBSCOhost

page 26

ILL Fee Management impacts libraries worldwide

by Donna Gehring
page 27


Information Dimensions

IDI BASIS software helps keep critical government departments working

page 28

IDI brings Web-based document management to Netscape's AppFoundry

page 29

BASIS document management available to the Arab World

page 29

Bright IDEA contest winners announced

page 30


Index

Transcribed by Angus Nicolson
17 March 1997