Cataloging with OCLC

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Cataloging with OCLC

• David Whitehair
• david_whitehair_at_oclc.org
• June 2006

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Topics

• WorldCat
• Cataloging options
• Connexion client demo
• Discussion

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WorldCat

• OCLCs bibliographic database
• Over 70 million records
• Over 350,000 for Hebrew language, nearly 50,000
  with Hebrew script
• Nearly 65,000 for Yiddish language, nearly 2,500
  with Hebrew script
• Over 90 keyword/phrase indexes which include both
  Latin and non-Latin data
• Available 24/7 with exception of some Sunday
  morning (US Eastern) hours always announced in
  advance

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Cataloging options

• Via your local systems Z39.50 client
• Via OCLC Connexion

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Z39.50 Cataloging

• Access WorldCat via your local systems Z39.50
  client
• MARC 21 records with MARC-8 character sets
• Coming in July
• Retrieve non-Latin script data with WorldCat
  records
• Access the LC/NACO and LC/SACO authority files

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Z39.50 Cataloging

• Set holdings on records
• Via Z39.50 if client supports Z39.50-1995
  Database/Update Extended Service Definition
• Via batch services
• Contribute original records to WorldCat
• Via batch services
• Import into Connexion and process online
  (requires that you re-search WorldCat before
  processing)

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Connexion interfaces

• Web-based Connexion browser
• Windows-based Connexion client

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Connexion client

• Language interfaces Chinese (Simplified),
  Chinese (Traditional), English, German, Japanese,
  Korean, Spanish
• Supports Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek,
  Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Tamil, and Thai
  scripts (next Bengali, Devanagari, and Sinhala)
• Both online and offline cataloging

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Hebrew cataloging

• Create records with Latin script only, Hebrew
  script only, or both
• Import records created in your ILS to finalize
  and add to WorldCat
• Macros available to help transliterate romanized
  Latin script to Hebrew script and vice versa
• Display data aligned left or right

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Hebrew cataloging

• MARC-8 verify tool to easily highlight characters
  that cannot be converted to MARC-8
• Export records in MARC 21 with either MARC-8 or
  UTF-8 Unicode character set
• Specify to include Latin and/or non-Latin data in
  exported record if both, specify which data to
  put in 880 fields

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Connexion client demo