OCLC Newsletter

ISSN: 0163-898X

Index

Number 246

July/August 2000


Contents


From Jay Jordan

CORC: A New Service, A New Spirit
    by Jay Jordan
    page 3


Membership News

OCLC Users Council
Users Council elects two to OCLC Board of Trustees, holds videoconference seen by 7,500 librarians worldwide
    page 4-5

University of Oregon enters 100 millionth OCLC Interlibrary Loan request
    page 6-7

Words on the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service . . . from a library user:
What May Be Found Interlibrary
    by Paul Salgado
    page 8-9


. . . from a librarian
    by Mary L. Augustine
    page 9

OCLC Statistics
(as of July 1, 2000)
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/stats.htm
    page 8-9

Wellcome Library in London adds 44 millionth bibliographic record to WorldCat
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
    page 10

WebExpress provides access to local and remote information resources through a library's own customized interface
http://www.oclc.org/webexpress/
    page 11

OCLC at ALA
    page 12-13

OCLC President's Luncheon celebrates launch of CORC
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/announce/wizard.htm
    page 14

Winners of OCLC-sponsored ALA awards honored at President's Luncheon
    page 15

Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award recipient named
    page 15

Winners of ALA Annual conference drawings announced
    page 15

ALCTS announces Margaret Mann Citation recipient
    page 16

Hong Kong Public Libraries sponsors a seminar
    page 16

Paul K. Sybrowsky receives 2000 Melvil Dewey Medal
    page 17

OCLC Usability Lab celebrates 10-year anniversary
http://www.oclc.org/usability/
    page 17

Anne Robertson appointed to Dewey Editorial Committee
    page 18

Network directors meet in Dublin, Ohio
    page 18

Dewey Editorial Policy Committee meets at the Library of Congress
http://www.oclc.org/fp/news/epc/; http://www.oclc.org/fp
    page 19

SiteSearch users meet to share successes, concerns
    by Bruce Newell
    page 20-22

University of Washington and OCLC work together to improve access to digital collections
http://content.engr.washington.edu; content@ciso.engr.washington.edu
    page 23

The Colorado Virtual Library-providing access to virtually anything
http://www.aclin.org; http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org
    by Brenda Bailey
bailey_b@cde.state.co.us
    page 24-25


Research

Dublin Core releases recommended qualifiers to improve access to information
http://purl.org/dc/documents/dcmes-qualifiers/; http://purl.org/dc/pressreleases/qualifiers20000711.htm.rdf; http://www.niso.org/Z3985.html; http://purl.org/dc/; http://www.ifla.org/udt/dc8/call.htm
    page 26-27

Praise for DC Qualifiers from Key Leaders in Metadata:
    page 26-28

How "World Wide" is the Web? Trends in the internationalization of Web sites
An abstract from the Annual Review of OCLC Research 1999
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review99/
    by Brian F. Lavoie and Edward T. O'Neill
    page 28

Web-based name services can improve access to resources
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
    by Keith Shafer
    page 29-31

Karen Drabenstott is visiting scholar
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review99/drabenstott/multimedia_ddc.htm
    page 31


Clicks and Mortar

Libraries increase Net Value with CORC
    by Gary Houk
    page 32

CORC: Build locally, share globally
    by Taylor Surface
    page 33

CORC awareness grows on Web
http://www.oclc.org/institute/career/career.htm/; http://www.kabalarians.com/
    by Alane Wilson
    page 34

Organizing state government Web resources: A CORC pilot project
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.cslib.org/pathfinders/corc.htm
    by Julie Schwartz and Stephen Slovasky
    page 35-36

WebDewey in CORC available
http://www.oclc.org/fp/
    by Suzanne Butte
    page 37-38

Libraries and OCLC team to build CORC
    by Alan Wilson
    page 39-40

Panelists discuss CORC at ALA Annual
http://purl.oclc.org/corc/
    by Alane Wilson
    page 40-42

OCLC Institute helps introduce CORC in China
    page 43

OCLC Cataloging libraries can use CORC now
    page 43


Product News

Migration to new FirstSearch now complete
http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/
    page 44

Suite101.com to use DDC in new directory
http://www.suite101.com
    page 45

Selection, indexing and abstracting at PAIS
    by Catherine Korvin
    page 46-47


Library Scene

The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/membership/index.htm
    page 48


Index

Transcribed by Sharron Brown
28 November 2000