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New version of Connexion client interface now available; support for version 1.00 ends in July

An updated version of the Connexion client, a Windows-based interface, is ready for download at no charge from the OCLC Web site. Version 1.10 includes new features and user requested enhancements that will help streamline and improve a library’s cataloging workflow. Changes are included in set-up options, macro recorder, bibliographic save file and constant data, authority save file and constant data, system help, and many other areas. To see a listing of the enhancements, go to the Connexion client recent enhancements page. OCLC will discontinue support for version 1.00 on July 1, 2004. All 1.00 users must upgrade to 1.10 to be able to log on after July 1.

Connexion is OCLC’s flagship cataloging service, a powerful, flexible suite of tools with built-in access to WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database. Both this Windows-based client interface and a Web-based browser interface are available.

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Pervasive computing vision: Computers to be ‘oxygen of the future’

By the year 2010, scientists predict we will be immersed in a sea of miniature computers. Many of us carry three or four digital devices with us, according to Simon Moore of Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory, but soon that figure will be in the hundreds. Those predictions came at the launch of the Cambridge-MIT Institute’s Pervasive Computing initiative, a trans-Atlantic collaboration between information scientists and engineers at Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

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New directions in sharing: OCLC Interlibrary Loan

This year marks the 25th anniversary of OCLC Interlibrary Loan, a system that supports more than 7,000 libraries, resource centers and document suppliers. With your participation, more than 134 million requests have been handled since 1979—with a record 9.2 million requests in 2003.

Over the next 18 months, OCLC is planning more enhancements to ILL functionality, as well as other changes, that will make using and budgeting resource sharing even more efficient. Stay up to date with “new directions in sharing” by subscribing to the OCLC Resource Sharing list, a broadcast-only distribution announcing the latest ILL news.

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OCLC welcomes the following new member libraries

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad de Odontología
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFDO
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León—Facultad Medicina CRIDS
Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
OCLC Symbol: MXFDM
OCLC Network: OCLC Latin America & the Caribbean

Membership guidelines and protocols

WorldCat update

Every 12 seconds an OCLC member library adds a new record to WorldCat, which contains more than 54 million records representing 918,897,146 holding locations as of April 3, 2004. Every 4 seconds an OCLC member library fills an interlibrary loan request using WorldCat, which has supported 134,832,217 interlibrary loan requests as of April 3, 2004. A library user searches WorldCat using the OCLC FirstSearch service every second.

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