OCLC & Consortia: Facilitating Cooperation
by Jay Jordan
page 3
Library leaders discuss future roles and contributions of research libraries during International Research Library Directors Conference
by Patricia Maes and Johnathan Zittrain
page 4-5
PAIS continues dedication to libraries, custom of excellence
by Debra Brown-Spruill
page 6-7
Fort Wayne Reference and Interlibrary Loan Center makes 98 Millionth OCLC ILL request for LaGrange Country Library
page 8
Montana State University creates 99 millionth OCLC Interlibrary Loan request
page 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison uses OCLC SiteSearch software to create "Africa Focus"
http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/
by Jenny Bushnell and Don Johnson
page 10-11
OCLC CJK Users Group meets in San Diego
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/cjk/report/2000cjk/index.htm
by Joy Kim
Library leaders from Asia Pacific region meet to discuss issues, challenges facing libraries
by Eliza Sproat
page 13-16
Department of Defense uses SiteSearch to support military education
http://www.ifn.pims.org:8000
by Sarah A. Mikel
page 17-18
Collection and Technical Services Committee meets in Dublin
page 19
CIP Upgrade staff celebrates milestone
page 19
OCLC'S x.25 backbone is decommissioned
page 20
Gary Marchionini is named Kilgour Award winner
page 20
Robert Wedgeworth is John Ames Humphry/OCLC Forest Press Award winner
page 21
OCLC services to be unavailable Aug. 6-7 during power upgrade
http://www.oclc.org/
page 21
Erik Jul named executive director of OCLC Institute
page 22
Robert Van Volkenburg named director, Product Marketing, OCLC Library Resources
page 23
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Frankfurt and beyond
by Stuart Weibel
page 24-25
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set endorsed by European standard organization
http://www.cenelec.be/
http://www.etsi.fr/
http://www.cenorm.be/isss/
page 26-27
Research Advisory Committee meets in Dublin
by Beth Marsh
page 27-29
Consortia: Leading change through cooperation
by Phyllis B. Spies
page 30
Illinois promotes equal access to libraries through partnerships
by Barbara B. Alexander
page 31-33
Library consortia come in all sizes, types
page 33-34
OCLC works with consortia worldwide
page 35-36
OCLC Refernce Services moves to next stage of content management and collection development
by Tam Dalrymple
page 37-38
PromptCat provides fast, automatic copy cataloging
by Jennifer Hamilton
page 39
Dot marks the spot
page 40
Transcribed by Susannah Wake
8 August 2000