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OCLC Library Services Update: RetroCon, TechPro, Language Sets, & MARS

Stay informed on OCLC's latest services: RetroCon for catalog conversion, TechPro for cataloging, Language Sets with 12 non-English collections, and MARS offering Pinyin conversion for authority control. Explore custom collections!

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OCLC Library Services Update: RetroCon, TechPro, Language Sets, & MARS

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  1. OCLC Custom Services Update Chris Mottayaw OCLC Library Services Manager 800-848-5878 x6476 chris_mottayaw@oclc.org

  2. Updates • OCLC RetroCon • OCLC TechPro • OCLC Language Sets • OCLC MARS

  3. OCLC RetroCon • Conversion of cataloged items • Since 1976 • Over 66 million records converted • 1,126 libraries • Over 1 million CJK records converted • 21 libraries

  4. OCLC RetroCon CJK Projects • Princeton University • 180,000 records • University of Chicago • Converted 50,000 records • Additional 12,000 records • Yale University • Converted 150,000 monographs • Adding 2,000 serials

  5. OCLC TechPro • Copy and original cataloging • Since 1985 • Over 17 million items cataloged • 531 libraries • Over 500,000 CJK items cataloged • 69 libraries

  6. OCLC TechPro CJK Projects • Brown University • UC San Diego • Cornell University • Hamilton College • UCLA School of Law • Ohio State University

  7. OCLC Language Sets Ready made non-English collections 12 languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Russian Spanish Hindi Punjabi Gujarati Urdu Tamil Bengali

  8. OCLC Language Sets • Used by over 250 libraries • Expanding vendor/distributor network • OCLC Webstore online ordering https://www3.oclc.org/languagesets/

  9. OCLC Language Sets – Custom Collections • Built by individual specifications • Any language • Any format • Any volume • Any frequency

  10. OCLC MARS – Pinyin Conversion • Authority control • Pinyin conversion options to convert from: • Entire file • Specific file • OCLC archive records • OCLC WorldCat record • Adds vernacular

  11. Pinyin Projects • University of Florida • Harvard University • University of Southern California • University of Kansas • National Library of Medicine

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