OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 19 Issue 1

The essence of what we do

Norm Medeiros

This article reports on Connexion, OCLC’s new integrated toolset developed as its next generation cataloging system. The author considers the ever‐changing nature of technical…

Reference, access, and use

Randall C. Jimerson

Providing reference and access services for users requires special techniques and knowledge of a repository’s holdings. Archivists need to identify their user clientele and design…

Ghosts in the machine: people and organisation level issues in distributed digital libraries

Dennis Nicholson

This article deals with people and organisation level issues in distributed digital libraries, and in the process introduces the range of topics relevant to this new column and…

Electronic tools for cataloging

Zahiruddin Khurshid

BiblioFile marked the beginning of the availability of cataloging tools in electronic format based on microcomputer technology. During the last 17 years, some of these tools have…

Employing CatME’s efficiency, ease, and economy

Anping Wu, Dan Pfohl

OCLC Cataloging Micro Enhancer (CatME) has remained a powerful cataloging tool for many years. This article introduces the history of CatME and demonstrates its efficient…

Digital anxiety and cooperation in a networked world

Robert Cox, Rachel Onuf

In September, 2000, the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) received a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to outsource legacy…