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	Susan Chinoransky George Washington University schinoransky@burns.nlc.gwu.edu

Correction to last issue’s article

David Whitehair of OCLC Product Management & Implementation Division contacted me after he had received the last issue of TSLL with a correction. In the OCLC column, I stated that a keyword search was the most expensive OCLC search. While this is still the case for Interlibrary Loan and Union List, OCLC has changed the searching prices in its Cataloging module so that keyword searching and derived/numeric searching are priced the same. As in the game of Monopoly, this was definitely an error in my favor! And yours as well.

Add your examples to Bibliographic Formats and Standards

OCLC is soliciting examples for its Bibliographic Formats and Standards. If you have that one special example that you feel best illustrates a particular cataloging rule, format, or input standard, send it to the Documentation Dept. at http://www.oclc.org/oclc/forms/doccom.htm or mail it to: OCLC Documentation Department, mc123, 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin, Ohio 43017-3394.

OCLC Cataloging Service User Guide, Third Edition

By the publication of this issue of TSLL, you should have received the third edition of the OCLC Cataloging Service User Guide. It includes information about such new topics as cooperative cataloging, cataloging agents, and the Bibliographic Record Notification service. It supersedes the cataloging information in eight Technical Bulletins (209, 210, 212, 213, 214, 217, 218R, and 221). Please be sure to return the Reader Comments sheet with your critique of the new edition.

Library of Congress Joins CORC

After careful deliberation, the Library of Congress has decided to participate in OCLC’s CORC project. In the LC Cataloging Newsline (v.7, no. 13, Nov. 1999), LC lists several advantages of joining the project. These include:

1. Cost-effectiveness (no major time of systems staff, less cataloger staff time, more technician involvement);
2. Automatic Dewey assignment;
3. Possible URL maintenance assistance;
4. User friendly (minimal staff training required);
5. Suggested subject terminology;
6. Automatic searching for previously created records for the same resource;
7. Participation in and contributions to an international effort with opportunity to influence product development;
8. Opportunity for the directorate to learn more about alternate techniques for managing electronic resources;
9. Availability of records for copy cataloging;
10. More efficient method of creating pathfinders.

Not only will LC catalogers submit MARC or Dublin Core records to the CORC database, reference librarians will have the opportunity to experiment with CORC’s pathfinder functionality. OCLC is still seeking more participants for the CORC project. For more information, see: http://oclc.org/oclc/corc/index.htm.

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