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New Connexion client ready for downloading

Version 1.3 provides functionality cataloging users need to migrate to Connexion

A new version of the Connexion client, the Windows-based interface to OCLC’s flagship cataloging service, is now available and ready for download from the OCLC Web site. Key enhancements in Version 1.3 enable you to:

Search WorldCat using true keyword searching, as well as Boolean operators “and”, “or” and “not.” Enter multiple terms with a single index label.
Select from over 90 indexes for searching and 50 indexes for browsing.
Catalog using Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts, as well as Arabic script.
Use a Spanish client interface, similar to the CatME Spanish interface.

Cataloging migration
Are you still using Passport or CatME for cataloging? On May 1, 2005, OCLC will retire Passport for Cataloging. On July 1, 2005, CatME (English and Spanish interfaces), CJK and Arabic Cataloging will also be retired. Passport for Union Listing will be retired later this year, between September and December 2005. OCLC member libraries that perform their cataloging and/or union listing in these interfaces should plan to migrate to Connexion prior to these dates.

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The library as a place: rethinking roles, rethinking space

What is the role of a library when users can obtain information from any location? And what does this role change mean for the creation and design of library space? Six authors—an architect, four librarians and a professor of art history and classics—explore these questions in Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, a new report from the Council on Library and Information Resources. In their essays, the authors challenge us to think about new potential for the place we call the library and underscore the growing importance of the library as a place for teaching, learning and research in the digital age.

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Brigham Young University enters 143 millionth request into OCLC ILL service

Created on February 24, the request was for the article “Viral hijacking of G-protein-coupled-receptor signalling networks,” from the journal Nature Reviews: Molecular Cell Biology, and was filled February 28 by the University of Oklahoma. The 142 millionth ILL request was created on January 26.

Resource sharing migration
Users of OCLC interlibrary loan are moving their sharing activities to a new, Web-based WorldCat Resource Sharing interface. On May 1, 2005, OCLC will retire all existing client and Web-based interfaces currently used to access OCLC Interlibrary Loan: ILL Web, Passport for ILL, ILL ME and ILLiad version 6.x. OCLC member libraries that perform their resource sharing in these interfaces should plan to migrate to the Web-based WorldCat Resource Sharing or ILLiad 7.0 by that date.

Brigham Young University Library
University of Oklahoma Libraries

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Alexian Brothers Health System
Location: Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ALBIL
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Gregory Elementary School
Location: Moweaqua, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILLGE
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Bond Elementary School
Location: Assumption, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILLBE
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Westview Elementary School
Location: Champaign, Illinois, USA
OCLC Symbol: ILDRH
OCLC Network: ILLINET

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 58 million bibliographic records and holding information contributed by more than 8,500 libraries around the world. The new Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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