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A careful study of OCLC's dial access manuals provides no evidence that the Apple Macintosh works as an OCLC terminal. Despite this gap in these otherwise informative publications, with a little detective work, experimentation, and common sense, librarians have been using the Macintosh to search bibliographic records for reference inquiries, file interlibrary loan requests for patrons, even manipulate records in the course of cataloging. This column is the first in a series exploring the Macintosh as an interface to the OCLC database of over 20 million bibliographic records.