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May/June 1999 No.239 ISSN: 0163-898X

Feature The CORC Project Extending the WorldCat cooperative model to the Web

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From Jay Jordan
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From Jay Jordan

OCLC Research is helping libraries meet the challenges of the Digital Age

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Membership News

OCLC and Pica begin discussions on collaboration

17th Annual International Conference of Research Library Directors

OCLC Institute takes up global librarianship

Lehigh Carbon Community College enters 89 millionth OCLC ILL request

OCLC CIP Upgrade Unit reaches 200,000-title milestone

Massachusetts library enters 90 millionth OCLC ILL request

OCLC SiteSearch users exchange ideas, provide feedback

RONDAC meets in Dallas

OCLC discontinues workstation sales

New Web site helps FirstSearch users become better searchers

New OCLC ILL Full Text Option delivers

Harvard-Yenching Library ready to begin cataloging with OCLC CJK 3.0 software

OCLC CJK Users Group holds annual meeting

Nancy Olson receives Margaret Mann Citation

Diane Vizine-Goetz and Lois Mai Chan to receive Best of LRTS Award

Jay Jordan named fellow in Standards Engineering Society

Pat Stevens named chair of the new NISO Standards Committee

Richard Baumgarten appointed to Dewey editorial committee

Brenda Bailey is new director, OCLC Distributed Systems

Lori Saviers named director of OCLC Reference and Resource Sharing Product Marketing

OCLC Statistics as of May 1, 1999

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Worldwide

Bibliothèque nationale du Québec joins OCLC

National Library of Australia director-general visits OCLC

Asia Pacific library leaders participate in Conference of Research Library Directors

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Research

Norman Paskin discusses the Digital Object Identifier

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Feature

OCLC CORC Project

CORC Project is significant for libraries and their users

The genesis and development of CORC as an OCLC Office of Research project

Resource Description Framework: Achieving interoperable metadata on the Internet

CORC and the Dublin CORE

CORC built using toolkit developed in Mantis project

Authority control for the Internet

CORC interface designed for experienced catalogers as well as other users

OCLC research takes experience in classification to the Internet

Database created by CORC project continues to grow

CORC project participants hold first meeting

Institutions participating in the CORC project

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Product News

OCLC/WLN merger provides new opportunities for libraries

Electronic Collections Online expands to 2,200 journal titles

Records from HARRASSOWITZ added to WorldCat

Forest Press publishes Dewey Table 2 revisions

EPIC users turn to new FirstSearch for expert searching

Label Program version 1.20 now available

Ensuring a smooth transition from multidrop access

Library Scene

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County

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