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Topics. WorldCatCataloging optionsConnexion client demoDiscussion. WorldCat. OCLC's bibliographic databaseOver 70 million recordsOver 350,000 for Hebrew language, nearly 50,000 with Hebrew scriptNearly 65,000 for Yiddish language, nearly 2,500 with Hebrew scriptOver 90 keyword/phrase indexes
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1. Cataloging with OCLC David Whitehair
david_whitehair@oclc.org
June 2006
2. Topics WorldCat
Cataloging options
Connexion client demo
Discussion
3. WorldCat OCLC’s 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
4. Cataloging options Via your local system’s Z39.50 client
Via OCLC Connexion
5. Z39.50 Cataloging Access WorldCat via your local system’s 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
6. 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)
7. Connexion interfaces Web-based Connexion browser
Windows-based Connexion client
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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