... is bedeviled by its own share of dictators and despots who do not allow for a free flow of information about the activities and happenings in their countries. These result from the high levels of corruption and neglect exhibited towards the basic tenets of government, which if exposed will lead to mass...

... the assignment of finding a way to access OCLC from the Macintosh, for she wanted to compare RLIN and OCLC as cataloging utilities for the Apple Library. The library's policy is not to use any of those dreary DOS machines. OCLC does not currently provide its PASSPORT search software in a Macintosh format...

... possible for the port to change its baud rate (speed) if the attached PC issues a "break" signal. Since this can happen during the operation of PASSPORT (by pressing the break key, or by pressing Alt 3), a controller port can suddenly stop communicating at the expected speed. The result is that the PC...

... for acquisitions and cataloging staff in the old library building and the second for interlibrary loan staff in the new library building. Each dedicated line required its own leased synchronous phone line to Dublin, dedicated Sprint modem, and comm controller. There were three workstations on the first dedicated...

...-transfer-protocol OCLC Systems and Services Vol. 9 / Number 4 25 into our local system, a process III refers to as conversion. The file will first need to have its duplicate records identified and deleted before exporting into our local system, but that is something that a vendor can do easily. (When...

.... Considers the advantages of the network and its costs. Catalogues Computer networks Database management Collection management Implementation IT Online retrieval 46 Vol. 9 / Number 3 Fall 1993 An OCLC/GTO LAN Set-up: A Case Study Report by Ting Zheng and JoyceL.Huang Ting Zheng is coordinator...

... of technology and of getting the chance to know what it's like to push yourself to the edge. In my experience, the emergency situations that came with beta testing were opportunities that sharpened my survival instincts. To a few, the absence of specific standards makes beta testing a challenge; to others...

... is to make my contribution both transparent and singular. It's a neat trick, and one that is not only fairly straight-forward to achieve, but also quite rewarding on a number of fronts in which my shelflisting efforts are not. The way I achieve this is by creating subject authority records in my local system...

...Dan Liebtag Examines briefly the costs of OCLC cataloguing services,particularly compared with one of its major competitors in the non‐large library market, the Library Corporation′s Bibliophile. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Cataloguing Costs Interlending IT Libraries Online retrieval...

... its own format, so the values for the tag groups are not the same as for the bibliographic tags. As in the bibliographic file, the authority file format field tags determine the indexing for the derived and scan search capabilities of the authority file. If you want me to discuss the authority file...

... if patrons requested their ILL materials electronically? What would this do to ILL workloads? Electronic requesting is happening on both a local and a national level, and its impact may surprise you. First, however, let's look at the way we've always done it. The Old Way CSUL Until eighteen months ago...

... will have cancel transactions deleted from its databases at this time. Typically, last transaction dedupping is the best option for libraries that do not, as a rule, acquire or add multiple copies, or for those libraries that have made it a policy to consolidate holdings of previous uses when new copies...

...Sherry L. Vellucci Examines the OCLC/AMIGOS collection analysis CD (CACD) and its potential applications that can assist in the labour‐intensive process of evaluation and collection development. Identifies three categories of potential uers of the qualitative and quantitative data analysis provided...

...Dan Liebtag Reviews the experience of a County Library with the EPIC and PRISM interlibrary lending systems in improving efficiency and productivity of subject and keyword searches. Emphasises the need for keyword searching and its facilitation with the searching of OLUC on PRISM. Looks at recent...

... County, Ohio, District Library. As the envelope of the paperless society pushes its sticky edge farther into the heartland, we here at Fairfield County District Library (FCDL) have been tempted by the allure of electronic ordering. FCDL is a medium-sized public library serving approximately 100,000...

... / Number I 9 The Great PRISM ILL Cutover by Judith A. Carter A Holiday Gift From: OCLC To: ILL Departments Everywhere Judith A. Carter is reference librarian at Parker College of Chiropractic, Dallas, Texas. It's the week before the Great PRISM ILL Cutover, and I'm like a kid before Christmas I want...

... tapes to OCLC with all its associated paperwork and dealing with a variety of vendors and computer systems before each member library can complete a tapeload. There are still complaints about the costs, particularly the price of telecommunications, and, similar to many states, we are grappling...

..., full forms of authors' names, publication dates, edition statements, series statements, and classification of any type are lacking in the list. The University Press could not provide a more complete list, owing to the limitations of its computer database. This list was so brief that it would deny...

...Laura Gayle Green Describes the experience of the Indiana University Music Library with the Search CD450 software on alocal area network (LAN). Deals with the LAN from a user′s perspective, outlining some of its majoradvantages and disadvantages. Emphasises the issue of LAN′s CD‐ROM compatibility...