OCLC Newsletter

ISSN: 0163-898X

Index

Number 241

September / October 1999


Contents


From Jay Jordan

Promoting the Evolution of Librarianship
    by Jay Jordan
    page 3


Membership News

New FirstSearch is here
    page 4-5

University of Miami Music Library enters 42 millionth record into WorldCat
    page 5

Western Illinois University enters 93 millionth OCLC ILL request
    page 6

Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee looks ahead to next editions
http://www.oclc.org/fp

    page 7

Panelists discuss CORC at ALA Annual
http://purl.oclc.org/corc

    page 8-9

OCLC hosts 11 Internet lists
    page 9

ILL Fee Management saves libraries money and time
    by Brad Gauder
    page 10

New members join Strategic Service Area Advisory committees
    page 11

OCLC CJK 3.0 Software User Update Workshop held
    by Hideyuki Morimoto
    page 12-13

1999/2000 Users council t focus on the 'New World'
    page 13

OCLC sponsors new RUSA award
    page 14

Academic library leaders create expanded vision for libraries in the Digital Knowledge Age
    page 15

OCLC plans ALA Midwinter symposium on 'Libraries and the Web'
    page 16


Worldwide

KERIS delivers OCLC FirstSearch in Korea
http://www.keris.or.kr

    page 17

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology hosts OCLC visit
    page 17

Andrew Wang promoted to executive director, OCLC Asia Pacific Sales, Service and Market Development
    page 18

Science and Technology Information Center and OCLC work together in Taiwan
    page 18

OCLC welcomes group from National Library of China
    page 19

OCLC initiatives approved at LIBER Conference
http://www.kb.dk/guests/intl/liber/

    page 19

OCLC to sponsor new IFLA Early Career Development Fellowship
    page 20

New OCLC booth makes debut at IFLA
    page 20

Universidad Veracruzana Library joins OCLC
    page 21


Research

Wordsmith project moving toward an organized terminology base of Web documents
    by Jean Godby
    page 22-23

ALISE to cosponsor research grants
    by Diane Morris
    page 24

OCLC research project measures scope of Web
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/webstats/

    page 25

Annual Review of OCLC Research 1998 now available on the Web
    page 26


OCLC Y2K Readiness Disclosure

OCLC began to address Year 2000 issues in 1995
    by Bob Murphy
    page 27-28

OCLC in final phases of testing for Year 2000
    page 28

Y2K issues not restricted to OCLC online services
    page 29

Y2K transition weekend will give staff time to monitor systems
    page 29


Product News

OCLC SiteSearch 4.1 suite offers greater customization and focus on emerging technology
    by Meredith Dean
    page 30-31

New versions of OCLC CJK and CatME software mow available
    page 31


Library Scene

The 'New' Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire
    page 32


Index

Transcribed by Lesa Ng
28 January 2000