On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:40:42 -0400 Karen Calhoun <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear PCC colleagues,
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> The PCC Standing Committee on Automation (SCA) is surveying the PCC membership
> (BIBCO, CONSER, and NACO libraries) to determine the extent of the group's
> awareness and use of cataloging enhancements and tools developed by the
> utilities with input from PCC participants.
>
> Below are brief desciptions of the tools taken from RLG and OCLC web sites,
> followed by several questions. Your answers will help the SCA assess usage
> patterns, identify benefits and desired improvements, and decide how to
> publicize and promote these and other tools to PCC members. Results of the
> survey will be reported at the PCC Participants meeting in New Orleans. Thanks
> to Ruth Bogan and Louise Ratliff for preparing this survey.
>
> The SCA would appreciate your responses by June 15. Please send your completed
> survey to Ruth Bogan at [log in to unmask]
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> We appreciate your help with this important research!
>
> --Karen Calhoun, SCA Chair
>
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> PCC-SCA Survey Questions
>
> Tool 1: OCLC's NACO macro -- "OCLC-supplied macrobook that creates completed
> authority workform from bibliographic heading"
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> 1.1 Are you currently using or planning to use the OCLC Passport for Windows
> NACO macro?
Yes! I currently use this macro.
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> 1.2 If no, please tell us why not. Not aware of it? No need? Problems?
> Other?
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> 1.3 If yes, please comment. Accolades? Problems? Suggestions? Enhancements?
Robert Bremer has done a fantastic job in writing this multi-use
macro. I could not work efficiently without it.
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> Tool 2: OCLC's real time upload of bibliographic records -- "CatME for Windows
> version 1.10 now supports importing original records you created in your local
> system. This allows you to add to WorldCat, the OCLC Online Union Catalog,
> original records that you created in your local system."
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> 2.1 Are you currently using or planning to use OCLC's real time upload
> capability?
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> 2.2 If no, please tell us why not. Not aware of it? No need? Problems?
> Other?
OCLC's editing software is superior. Prefer to work in OCLC & export
record to local system. But glad to know of its existence.
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> 2.3 If yes, please comment. Accolades? Problems? Suggestions? Enhancements?
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> Tool 3: RLG's Authority Record Assistant for NACO contributors -"Authority
> Assistant allows NACO catalogers using RLG's RLIN library processing system to
> select a heading in a bibliographic record and give the Generate command to
> produce an authority record in the RLG Name Authority File, a copy of the
> Anglo-American Name Authority File. There they can review the record and
> indicate when it is ready for
> redistribution by the Library of Congress."
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> 3.1 Are you currently using or planning to use the RLG Authority Assistant?
No.
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> 3.2 If no, please tell us why not. Not aware of it? No need? Problems?
> Other?
Not an RLG library
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> 3.3 If yes, please comment. Accolades? Problems? Suggestions? Enhancements?
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> *Please respond by June 15 to Ruth Bogan at [log in to unmask]*
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> ******************************
> Karen Calhoun
> Head, Cataloging, Central Technical Services
> 110-D Olin Library
> Cornell University
> Ithaca NY 14853
>
> Voice: 607-255-9915
> Fax: 607-255-6110
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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