Connexion

Integrated online cataloging. OCLC's flagship cataloging service. Connexion's flexible suite of tools aligns your bibliographic and authority record activities with WorldCat and the OCLC Authority File.

CatExpress

Simple copy cataloging. CatExpress is a Web-based tool for cataloging popular materials via an easy-to-learn interface, perfect for lower volumes and catalogers with less experience.

Dewey Services

Dewey Decimal Classification. The most widely used library classification system in the world. Order the new DDC22 print edition or subscribe to WebDewey, the online version that's continually updated.

Custom Cataloging

Comprehensive technical services. Comprehensive technical services. Improve access to materials and save your library time, money and effort. Customized solutions for your cataloging, conversion and reclassification challenges.

Batch Processing

Records and holdings maintenance. Add, change or cancel holdings on large numbers of records—locally and in WorldCat—with a variety of offline options. Consolidate the cataloging records you've created through WorldCat with Local Database Creation. Convert minimal records to full OCLC-MARC.

PromptCat

Automated copy cataloging. Save staff time and be ready to shelve materials faster. Materials ordered through participating material partners arrive with complete MARC records and your holdings set in WorldCat.

Z39.50 Cataloging Service

Z39.50 access to WorldCat. Search and retrieve MARC records from WorldCat using your Z39.50-compliant local system.

Cataloging Partners

Custom OCLC cataloging from material vendors. Receive high-quality, full MARC records for every title you order from participating vendors. Order materials and MARC records from one source, with one invoice, at a surprisingly low cost.

WorldCat Selection

Automated materials selection. Streamlined selection and ordering process for new library materials; simultaneously delivers corresponding WorldCat records.

OCLC Terminologies Service

Single interface access to multiple thesauri. Access often-used controlled vocabularies such as mesh, gmgpc, gsafd, lctgm, ngl and dct.

WorldCat Collection Sets

MARC record collections. Pre-packaged sets of full catalog records for microform, non-microform and electronic content purchased from vendors, ready to load into your local system.

GovDoc

Government document records. For federal depository institutions, delivery of up-to-date records for the government documents your library holds.

Local Holdings Maintenance

Detailed local holdings. Provide item-specific holdings for any type of materials including serials. Reduce or eliminate unproductive loan requests for materials you don't hold or cannot circulate.

WorldCat

The power behind OCLC cataloging solutions is WorldCat, the authoritative source of cataloging records built by librarians. And when you catalog with OCLC, your collection can be exposed to people broadly searching the Web at sites like Yahoo! Search and Google with the Open WorldCat program.

OCLC-MARC Record Delivery

A variety of WorldCat services generate bibliographic records in OCLC-MARC format. OCLC makes copies of these records available for you to import to your local system to keep your local holdings in synch with your holdings in WorldCat.

Local Database Creation

Whether your local system becomes corrupted or you inherit another library's collection, OCLC can supply OCLC-MARC records and local data for your holdings through local database creation.

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