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SamKon
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Sacramento
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
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        and offers a workflow-oriented approach to searching and cataloging. And 
        the new edition incorporates system enhancements made in controlling headings, 
        using diacritics, special characters and constant data.</p>
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      <p><a href="http://www.ub.gu.se/G/tillf/SamKon/biblsamkon.html">SamKon</a><br>
        Location: G&ouml;teborg, Sweden<br>
        OCLC Symbol: SESAM<br>
        OCLC Network: OCLC PICA<br>
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      <p><a href="http://pacific.fws.gov/lawenforcement/sacramentole.htm">U.S. 
        Fish &amp; Wildlife Service, Sacramento</a><br>
        Location: Sacramento, California, USA<br>
        OCLC Symbol: FWSCA<br>
        OCLC Network: FEDLINK<br>
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      <p><a href="http://www.oclc.org/news/newsletter/oclcnewsletter260.pdf">OCLC 
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