CORC: A New Service, A New Spirit
by Jay Jordan
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OCLC Users Council
Users Council elects two to OCLC Board of Trustees, holds videoconference seen by 7,500 librarians worldwide
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University of Oregon enters 100 millionth OCLC Interlibrary Loan request
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Words on the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Service . . . from a library user:
What May Be Found Interlibrary
by Paul Salgado
page 8-9
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/
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WebExpress provides access to local and remote information resources through a library's own customized interface
http://www.oclc.org/webexpress/
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OCLC at ALA
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OCLC President's Luncheon celebrates launch of CORC
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/announce/wizard.htm
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Winners of OCLC-sponsored ALA awards honored at President's Luncheon
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Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL Librarian Award recipient named
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Winners of ALA Annual conference drawings announced
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ALCTS announces Margaret Mann Citation recipient
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Hong Kong Public Libraries sponsors a seminar
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Paul K. Sybrowsky receives 2000 Melvil Dewey Medal
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OCLC Usability Lab celebrates 10-year anniversary
http://www.oclc.org/usability/
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Anne Robertson appointed to Dewey Editorial Committee
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Network directors meet in Dublin, Ohio
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Dewey Editorial Policy Committee meets at the Library of Congress
http://www.oclc.org/fp/news/epc/; http://www.oclc.org/fp
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SiteSearch users meet to share successes, concerns
by Bruce Newell
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University of Washington and OCLC work together to improve access to digital collections
http://content.engr.washington.edu; content@ciso.engr.washington.edu
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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
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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
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Praise for DC Qualifiers from Key Leaders in Metadata:
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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
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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
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Karen Drabenstott is visiting scholar
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review99/drabenstott/multimedia_ddc.htm
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Libraries increase Net Value with CORC
by Gary Houk
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CORC: Build locally, share globally
by Taylor Surface
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CORC awareness grows on Web
http://www.oclc.org/institute/career/career.htm/; http://www.kabalarians.com/
by Alane Wilson
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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
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OCLC Institute helps introduce CORC in China
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OCLC Cataloging libraries can use CORC now
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Migration to new FirstSearch now complete
http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/
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Suite101.com to use DDC in new directory
http://www.suite101.com
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Selection, indexing and abstracting at PAIS
by Catherine Korvin
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The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/membership/index.htm
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Transcribed by Sharron Brown
28 November 2000