OCLC Micro: Volume 8 Issue 5
Table of contents
OCLC News
Dan MarmionThe Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials, the world's first peer‐reviewed medical journal distributed by computer, began publication on July 1. OJCCT is a joint venture of…
OCLC’s linking strategy: Internet and NREN
Describes OCLC′s plans and policies with respect to linking withthe Internet and the emerging National Research and Education Network(NREN). Includes a consideration of the…
John Popko: Users Council President
Nancy Melin NelsonJohn Popko has hit the ground running. Early in June he was elected as vice president/president elect of OCLC's Users Council and, as such, he anticipated a full year's time in…
Public Services
Melinda Townsel‐WinstonWell I'll tell you what's new. Here is a potpourri of items pertaining to the EPIC Service and/or the FirstSearch catalog that should be of interest to Public Services librarians.
The need for funded research
Tschera Harkness ConnellProvides a brief summary of an OCLC funded project,“Identifying barriers to effective subject access in librarycatalogs” in which the author participated and the purpose ofwhich…
Converting the OCLC M386 microcomputer into an electronic interlibrary loan workstation: methods of selecting hardware and software
Mounir KhalilDescribes the PC‐Fax‐Scan Interlibrary Loan (ILL)‐Document DeliveryProject, highlighting the advantages of using the newly developedsystem. Briefly discusses the necessary…
Using PASSPORT, biblio‐links OCLC, and Pro‐cite to create a bibliography
Birong HoDemonstrates how the complex and detailed task of creating abibliography, involving compiling data,formatting it into a style sheet,revising the text, and printing the product can…
DEBUGging Old Printers: DOS, Double‐Strike, and PASSPORT 1.0
James E. CorblyOne of the true milestones of library history was reached last year when OCLC introduced the new PRISM service to its member libraries. PRISM was everything OCLC, promised it…