OCLC Newsletter

              OCLC to Acquire $2 .6 Million
in Advanced Telecommunication
Equipment and Software
OCLC will acquire $2.6 million in state­of-
the-art computer equipment and soft­ware
to modernize its telecommunication
network to improve service to its members
by the summer of 1985. OCLC President
Rowland Brown made the announcement
at the autumn Users Council meeting in
Columbus on September 25.
"In less than a year the OCLC telecom­munication
system will be state-of-the­art,"
said Mr. Brown. "The new system
___ will vastly expand our telecommunication
( ptions, both technologically and econom­\__
ically. Technologically, the reconfigura­tion
of the network into an OCLC-controlled
packet switched network is a
significant step toward OCLC's meeting its
commitment to provide an open network
with the capability of linking easily with
other systems and databases. Economi­cally,
the modernization will enhance
OCLC 's ability to react to tariff changes as
well as optimize the cost-effectiveness of
our geographic network configuration.''
Acceleration
Mr. Brown said that the $2.6 million
telecommunication program represents an
acceleration of OCLC's planned expen­ditures
for redesign of the telecommunica­tions
network. "OCLC has had to readjust
its capital budget to take advantage of the
opportunities presented by the new
telecommunication implementation
schedule," he said. "We originally planned
to replace the telecommunication portion
of the network over a three-year period,
but an analysis by our staff and outside
telecommunication consultants showed
that OCLC could also accelerate its ongo­ing
redesign of the entire Online System
by moving forward rapidly in the area of
~lecommunication.''
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1 As of mid-September there were 5,900
terminals linked to OCLC 's central system
via dedicated, leased telecommunication
lines. There were also more than 1,200
dial-access authorizations.
Features
The following are features of the new
OCLC telecommunication network that
will be in place in the summer of 1985:
OCLC-controlled packet switched
network employing existing and
emerging standards for Open System
Interconnection;
Off-the-shelf hardware;
Custom software for the OCLC poll­ing
protocol and enhanced network
monitoring and control;
Telecommunication service alter­natives
to multidrop leased lines and
their associated costs;
Dial-up use of OCLC network rather
than through value-added networks
(for those near the distributed net­work
nodes); and
Greater flexibility in offering new
services to member libraries such as
electronic document delivery.
The OCLC telecommunication network
today is described technically as an in­terstate,
multipoint, synchronous polled
network using private lines leased from
AT&T. It is a star configuration consisting
of over 180,000 miles of leased telephone
lines on 218 circuits (and 36 multiplexed
circuits) with an average of 21 terminals
per circuit, with a total of 3,470 modems.
These circuits are linked to OCLC's
telecommunication center in Dublin,
Ohio, which comprises 26 D-116
minicomputers, a distributed communica­tions
processor (a Tandem TNSII 16-
processor system), and modems; there are
also Tymnet and Telenet minicomputers
for the more than 1,200 dial-access
authorizations for the OCLC System.
Modernized
The OCLC network in the summer of
1985 will use a distributed architecture
with central control available from any Ad-vanced
Communication Processor (ACP)
node. The ACPs are specially designed
computer digital switching equipment that
will replace OCLC's D-116 minicomputers,
which have been in use since 1974. The
A CPs are more modern equipment capable
of handling OCLC's polling protocol and
other standard protocols. The new net­work
will be packet-switched, and the
ACPs will enable OCLC to use wire,
satellite or microwave transmission.
"The flexibility of the network will
allow modular growth as OCLC grows in
terms of users and services," said Mr.
Brown. "Modernization will enable us to
locate all or portions of our future com­puter
and database equipment in different
geographic areas, both nationally and in­ternationally,
as circumstances dictate.''
Contents
OCLC to Acquire Computer for
Linked Systems Project .............. 2
Code of Responsible Use Adopted ....... 2
Users Council Reelects Hoadley ......... 3
Ergonomics of VOT Workstations ....... 5
Patricia Sacks on OCLC Membership ..... 6
Cataloging Micro Enhancer in Field Test .. 8
Microcomputer Software Exchange Begins. 8
ILL Group Access ..................... 9
Map Conversion Project at University of
Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Accessions List Service Enhanced ....... 10
New OCLC Publications Available ...... 10
OCLC Trustee Named Deputy Executive
Director of ACS ................... 11
Vivaldi Project Completed ............ 11
Theological Users Group Formed ....... 12
Texas Tech Celebrates 10 Years With
OCLC ........................... 12
Rural Libraries Focus on OCLC & Micros. 12
Julia Blixrud on CONSER A & I Project .. 13
OCLC Provides In-Kind Grant for
CONSER A & I Project .............. 15
LS/2000 Selected by Pratt Institute,
Grove City Public .................. 16
2 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
OCLC to Acquire Hardware
for Linked Systems Project c
DUBLIN, Ohio-The OCLC Board of
Trustees has authorized the acquisition of
hardware for OCLC's computer link in the
name-authorities phase of the Linked
Systems Project (LSP). OCLC President
Rowland Brown made the announcement
on September 25 at the autumn meeting
of the OCLC Users Council in Columbus,
Ohio.
Mr. Brown said: "This substantial ap­plication
of funds will provide support for
OCLC's participation in the first phase of
the Linked Systems Project and under­scores
our commitment to international li­brary
cooperation and to our goal of
removing barriers to access to biblio­graphic
information."
LSP involves computer-to-computer
links between the Library of Congress, the
Research Library Information Network,
the \Vashington Library Network, and
OCLC.
Timely Updating
In the name-authorities portion of LSP,
OCLC-affiliated NACO (Name-Authority
Cooperative) libraries will have online inw
put via the OCLC System into the LC
NamewAuthority file. According to Mr.
Brown, all OCLC users will benefit from
the more timely updating of the LC Name­Authority
file that is expected to result
from LSP. Present plans call for transmis­sion
of additions and corrections from the
Library of Congress to each of the bibliow
graphic networks on a daily basis. LSP files
would never be more than 24-28 hours
out of date from LC's own file.
Open System
Mr. Brown noted that while this first
phase of LSP development at OCLC is
limited to the transfer of authority infor­mation,
it is part of a broader program un­der
way at OCLC. "OCLC will be linking
with many networks and local systems,
both in the U.S. and abroad," he said. "LSP
is only one ~ype of linkage, and as such is
very important but only one part of the
planning activity OCLC is undertaking for
its open system architecture." He said that
both LSP and OCLC's new architecture are
based on the International Standard Organ­ization
(ISO) Open System Reference
Model.
LSP has been funded primarily by the
Council on Library Resources. OCLC will
seek third-party funding to help defray the
cost of software development for the
namewauthority file on the Data General
16-bit Eclipse S/280 minicomputer, which
will serve as in interim system until the imw
plementation of OCLC's overall system
redesign.
OCLC Users Council Adopts Code of
Responsible Use For Database C
The OCLC Users Council has sent to
each OCLC member library a "Code of
Responsible Use for the OCLC Online
Union Catalog''
Drawn up by a Users Council task force
of four delegates, the Code has been
adopted by the Users Council and the
OCLC Board of Trustees.
Philosophy
"The Code represents the Users Coun­cil's
belief that the existing philosophy of
OCLC as a cooperative library service is a
sound one,'' said Users Council President
Irene Hoadley (Library Director, Texas
A&M University). "Acceptance of that
philosophy clearly assumes that all par­ticipants
in OCLC will use OCLC not only
to obtain products and services for them­selves
but to share their resources and servw
ices with other participants."
Eight
The Code's eight principles focus on the
overall quality of the database and are in­tended
to encourage appropriate, efficient
and effective use of the OCLC Online
Union Catalog.
Background
Included in the mailing to libraries is a
background document that further exw
plains the Code, prepared by Johanna
Bowen, Serials Librarian, SUNY College at
Cortland; she is a Users Council delegate
from SUNY and served as Chair of the task
force that developed the Code.
According to Dr. Hoadley, the Code is
a basic frame of reference for libraries to
approach use of the system. ''It is the Users
Council's hope that the Code will be supw
ported by library administrators," she said.
"It should be available to those working
directly with the system and to managers
making OCLC system-related decisions."
Here is the text of the newly adopted
"Code of Responsible Use for OCLC Par­ticipating
Libraries''
Code of Responsible Use
OCLC is a cooperative library
service. Participants accept a responw
sibility to use efficiently the OCLC
systems as well as a responsibility to
share resources and services. Use of
the system should benefit the mem­bership
as a whole and support the
mission and goals of each institution.
All participants will:
1. Provide basic and continuing
training and education for staff to
enable them to use the system ef­fectively
and responsibly.
2. Avoid creating duplicate records.
3. Improve the quality of the Online
Union Catalog by reporting er­rors
promptly.
4. Input current cataloging pro­mptly
to promote resource shar­ing
and collection development.
5. Input original cataloging accordw
ing to current national standards
and practices as promulgated in
OCLC Bibliographic Input
Standards.
6. Enter current cataloging into the
OCLC Online Union Catalog us­ing
the appropriate MARC
formats.
7. Limit use of OCLC Online Union
Catalog subsystems to OCLC-authorized
institutions. (
8. Use the information from the On~-­line
Union Catalog only for purw
poses which do not violate coopw
erative use of the OCLC systems
among participants.
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OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984 3
Users Council Reelects Hoadley
The OCLC Users Council reelected Irene
Hoadley as President, carried on a lengthy
discussion about pricing, heard updates on
contract negotiations from OCLC and net­works,
listened to comments from
delegates on membership issues, and re­ports
from OCLC management and Board
during their two-day meeting at the Hilton
Inn North in Worthington, a suburb of Co­lumbus.
Pricing
Following a presentation by Tom San­ville,
Director, Marketing and User Serv­ices
Division, OCLC, and Chairman of the
OCLC Pricing Committee, the Council met
as a ''committee of the whole'' to discuss
proposals made by the Pricing Committee.
The goal of the discussion was not to take
action but rather to attempt to reach a con­sensus
regarding the concepts presented by
the Pricing Committee.
Contract Negotiations
Laima Mockus, Chair of the Network
Directors Contract Committee and Ken­neth
Harris, OCLC Senior Vice President,
Marketing and Field Operations, reported
on the status of contract negotiations be­tween
OCLC and regional networks.
Unresolved issues as of the Users Council
meeting included contract term and ter­mination,
record use, and roles and
responsiblilities of the various parties. Ms.
Mockus said that the networks are still
negotiating as one group and that a core
contract is their goal. Mr. Harris pointed
out that while contract negotiations have
been going on for some time, it is impor­tant
to remember that the networks and
OCLC have continued to work together
successfully, and service by OCLC to its
members has continued unaffected and at
a high level.
Membership Issues
Three delegates spoke on membership
issues. Patricia Sacks' presentation appears
on page six of this Newsletter. Barbara
Baruth, delegate from WILS (University of
Wisconsin-Parkside) spoke on small librar­ies
in OCLC, and Louella Wetherbee
(AMIGOS) spoke on the cluster concept.
Small Libraries
What is a small library? Ms. Baruth gave
some examples: a school library; a one­person
corporate library; or a library with
a total budget of less than $1,000. "In an
ideal situation any library should be able
by Phil Schieber and Sharon Walbridge
to join OCLC," she said. "In reality, few
small libraries can afford to join.'' Some
libraries participate in OCLC through dial
access, group access, processing centers or
terminal sharing. However, some of those
alternatives limit participation in OCLC
subsystems. Small libraries believe their
collections are valuable. ''It's important for
OCLC to open the doors widely for small
libraries," she said.
Ms. Baruth noted that many small librar­ies
want to participate in OCLC. "They
have contributions to make, and they want
to be a part of the national network,'' she
said. ''They want the kind of peer contacts
involved in OCLC membership. How can
those small libraries still left out be brought
into the OCLC community?'' She posed the
following questions: How can small librar­ies
afford OCLC? How can networks afford
small libraries? Does the membership want
OCLC to move in the direction of having
a large number of small libraries join OCLC
as full participating members? Should the
"big guys" subsidize the "little guys" for
the good of all? Should government sub­sidies
be investigated? Should small librar­ies
have restricted services because of their
financial situations? Are there other cost­effective
ways to serve small libraries?
"The real question may be, what kind
of network are we?" she said. "Do we ex­ist
for the public good, or as a kind of co­operative
for those of us who demand and
can afford increasingly sophisticated serv­ice?"
Cluster Concept
Following a brief presentation by Tom
Sanville on the cluster concept itself-a
method by which OCLC and non-OCLC li­braries
utilize a local system and adapt
their use of the OCLC system to local ca­pabilities
and needs-Ms. Wetherbee iden­tified
the following key factors in the clus­ter
concept. A cluster can accommodate
libraries that have different or reduced
needs for OCLC services but which still
want to participate in OCLC. Clusters are
designed to be small, local or regional con­sortia
built around a "lead library." Clus­ter
op~ions are experimental.
She described two possible approaches
to clustering. In the first option, a group
of libraries would use one three-character
OCLC holding symbol. No holdings
beyond the first copy would be entered in
the OCLC database, and additional hold­ings
would be at the local level. The lead
library would have an OCLC terminal and
would be responsible for meeting OCLC
cataloging requirements. In the second op-tion,
those cluster participants that want
to can have separate three-character sym­bols,
and they would be expected to meet
all the current cataloging requirements for
full membership.
Ms. Wetherbee described three cate­gories
of cluster participants. The cluster
agent is the primary cluster member. It has
a three-character symbol and does all of its
own current cataloging and perhaps that
of other cluster members, and it would add
all unique titles to the database.
A tapeloading cluster member would
have its own three-character holding sym­bol,
terminal(s) and access to the OCLC
System. It would catalog online or via
tapeload, and its terminals would be des­ignated
public use terminals and would be
charged for searching.
The cluster affiliate, usually a small li­brary
would add unique titles through its
cluster agent and would not have access
to the OCLC Online System but would use
its local library system. It would not have
OCLC terminals or OCLC membership.
Ms. Wetherbee cited a number of
unresolved questions posed by the cluster
concept. Does OCLC intend to require ex­isting
clusters using machine-readable rec­ords
to adhere to the cluster arrangement?
How will networks handle cluster affiliates
which are not current network par­ticipants?
Will clusters eventually reduce
revenues significantly to OCLC and to net­works
and if so, what are the ramifications
of this? How will the existence of the clus­ter
affiliate concept affect group access
users, processing center users and other
types of special relationships? Will OCLC
allow current OCLC users continually to
downgrade to cluster affiliate status if they
so choose? What is the upper limit on clus­ter
size? What about the tape loading pro­cess?
Will charging tapeload members' ter­minals
as public access terminals result in
charges that equal cataloging charges? If
local consortia acquire cataloging from
other sources, would t.heir OCLC status
change? Will a single contract with the
consortia be a future alternative?
Financial Report
John Shary, OCLC's Vice President,
Finance and Treasurer, presented the
financial report and, as customary at the
fall Council meeting, gave an annual re­view
of OCLC's financial performance and
the current environment. Mr. Shary noted
that OCLC's financial position in a general
sense is strong. He noted, however, that
OCLC's liquidity is dropping from a
"strong" position to an "acceptable" one.
He said that an 11.8 percent increase in
FTU activity in 1983/84 contributed to a
4 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Users Council 1984/85 Executive Committee
Irene Hoadley Betty Taylor Barbara Baruth Doris Brown HughDurbiu
The OCLC Users Council reelected Irene B. Hoadley Presi­dent
at the Council's autumn meeting in Columbus, Ohio,
September 24-25. Director of the University Library at Texas
A&M University, Dr. Hoadley has served on the Users Council
as a delegate from AMIGOS since 1981; in 1983/84 she was
elected President of the Users Council, and in May 1984 she was
elected to a six-year term on the OCLC Board of Trustees, com­mencing
December 1984. Her term as Users Council President
will run through September 1985.
Council. A delegate from SOLINET, she is Director of the Legal
Information Center and Professor of Law at the University of
Florida.
Barbara E. Baruth was elected Delegate-at-Large. She is Head
of Technical Services at the Library/Learning Center, University
of Wisconsin-Parkside. Ms. Baruth is a delegate to the OCLC Users
Council frqm WILS (Wisconsin Interlibrary Services).
Doris Brown was elected Delegate-at-Large. Ms. Brown is
Director, DePaul University Library and a Users Council delegate
from ILL! NET.
Users CounciL delegates also elected the following officers.
Grace W. "Betty" Taylor was elected Vice President of the
Hugh Durbin was elected Delegate-at-Large. Mr. Durbin is
Director of Media Services, Columbus (Ohio) City Schools. He
is a Users Council delegate from OHIO NET.
strong performance in that fiscal year, with
total service revenues of S 57 million,
which was an increase of IS percent in
revenues over the previous year. Excess of
revenue over expenses, however, declined
from $9.2 million in 1982/83 to $8 million
in 1983/84.
Mr. Shary said that OCLC is liable for
$1,027,316 in back real estate taxes and
approximately $375,000 annually in real
estate taxes. "It's important to note that
we are paying the real estate taxes with­out
assessing the membership,'' he said.
"We have managed the resources."
Capital expenditures will be high over
the next few years, he said, as OCLC em­barks
on a $40 million capital equipment
expenditure program to replace computer
and telecommunications equipment, and
OCLC's financial position will likely go
from "strong" to "acceptable" during that
period.
OCLC President's Report
OCLC President Rowland Brown told
the Users Council delegates that OCLC has
been in a ''very productive period where
systems performance, always the top
priority, continues to be good." He said
that while individual libraries experience
problems from time to time, overall the
Online System and its uninterruptible
power system are serving users well. He
noted that system enhancements are being
implemented on schedule.
This autumn OCLC will introduce
Microcon, a microcomputer version of ret­rospective
conversion, and Serials 350, a
standalone microcomputer system for
serials. Moreover, Version C of LS/2000
and the serials component for that local
system will be available early in 1985.
"OCLC staff have given a lot of thought
to the process of introducing these new
products and services," he said. "We have
been concentrating on increasing produc­tivity
within libraries."
Mr. Brown said that OCLC would be
spending more money on research (ap­proximately
$1.3 million in 1984/85) with
the meeting of future library needs as its
goal. He said that "the concepts and tech­nologies
that flourished a decade ago'' .are
giving way to exploration of such areas as
intelligent gateways, content searching and
access, document delivery and electronic
access. "We have to ask if OCLC is trying
to improve what it does, or is it looking
to the future, trying to transform itself?"
He said that in the future OCLC will be in­volved
in joint research with universities
around the country.
He announced OCLC 's plan to acquire
$2.6 million in advance telecommunica­tions
equipment and software to modern­ize
its telecommunications network to im­prove
services to users by the summer of
1985. (See article on page I of this (
Newsletter.)
Mr. Brown described OCLC's efforts to
seek relief from taxes in Ohio in light of
a recent ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court
that OCLC was liable for real estate taxes.
Although OCLC's federal tax exemption
has never been challenged, its not-for­profit
status does not necessarily exempt
it from all taxes. He said that persona(
property and sales taxes loom on the
horizon for OCLC in Ohio. OCLC has been
in discussions with the Ohio Legislature,
and tax and other administration officials.
Input
He noted that OCLC has been collecting
a great deal of input from members, users,
and the library community. He cited the
Users Council's involvement in such im­portant
subjects as pricing, planning, con­tract,
copyright and third-party use;
meetings with network boards, staffs of af­filiated
networks, visits to state libraries,
all of which are a "part of OCLC's com­mitment
to listening and conununicating.''
There have also been recent meetings with
the Library of Congress, International
Federation of Library Associations, British (.
Library, Select Committee on Third-Party
Use, Conunittee on Copyright Alternative,
Network Directors, OCLC Board,
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Users Council ...
COSLA/OCLC Task Force, Higher Educa­tion
Policy Advisory Committee, and
OCLC/RLG Task Force. ''OCLC has an in­creasing
commitment to national and in­ternational
programs," he said.
Use of Records
He said that several committees are look­ing
at uses of OCLC-derived records by
"third parties" to advise OCLC and the
Board on this issue. A concern of OCLC
members is the applicability of copyright.
"Copyright is not intended as a method of
enforcement relating to use of data by
those institutions with whom OCLC has
contracts covering this subject,'' he said.
"As to those institutions, OCLC will forgo
rights under the copyright of the
database.'' He pointed out that approx­imately
300 libraries, including state
universities, colleges, public libraries and
special libraries have signed contracts with
OCLC during the last few months that in- "
elude standard use-of-record provisions
which they regard as reasonable and fair.
OCLC has had detailed discussions with li­braries
and their institutions' ad­ministrators
and attorneys, and from these
dfscussions it appears that their concerns
about record use have been satisfied. ''This
confirms OCLC's belief that the interests
of libraries and OCLC can be accom­modated
in contract language," he said.
"OCLC will rely on contracts rather than
copyright where members are con­cerned.''
Board Chairman's Report
Russell Shank, Chairman of the OCLC
Board of Trustees and University Librar­ian,
UCLA, was invited to address the
Council on copyright and OCLC's national
role. Speaking to copyright, he noted that
a final report from the Committee on
Copyright Alternatives was expected to be
presented to the Board in late autumn. He
said that support of national efforts and
goals is important to OCLC and its mem­bers,
and he cited numerous projects, in­cluding
work with the National
Agricultural Library, planning with the Li­brary
of Congress for the National Union
Catalog and the Name Authority Cooper­ative
(NACO) project, and OCLC's involve­ment
in the Linked Systems Project.
As Mr. Shank's Board term ends in
December he took the opportunity to
comment on OCLC's relationship with the
library community. ''We will all benefit if
suspicion is replaced by discussion, in­nuendo
by dialogue," he said. "The em­phasis
in our debate should turn from a a
search for neat and simplistic answers to
an honest, intelligent attempt at describ­ing
the roles that OCLC and the various
special interest groups around us have in
our library operations. ''OCLC has played
a key role in changing us," he said. "It has
required us to change the way we operate
OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984 5
VDT Workstation Ergonomics
by Cray Little
Many of us live and work with com­puters
directly, and it is to this audience
that Louis Tijerina directs his most recent
publication, Video Display Terminal
Workstation Ergonomics.
Mr. Tijerina, who is completing his doc­toral
research in video display ergonomics,
recognizes the importance of designing
video display terminal (VDT) workstations
with the human operator in mind. To in­crease
productivity, the operator's com­fort
and safety must be assured through a
thoughtful review of workstation ergo­nomics.
Simply selecting a terminal based
on functional specifications is inadequate
according to Mr. Tijerina. A number of fac­tors
related to human use of the equipment
must be considered if a truly successful
workstation is to be installed.
Design Criteria
With the importance of human interac­tion
in mind, Mr. Tijerina has developed
a set of detailed guidelines for workstation
design, selection, and implementation.
These guidelines cover the spectrum of
design criteria, including furniture,
climate, lighting, and noise. The author's
literature review is vigorous, and his ap­plication
of this knowledge is clear, con­cise,
and usable. He has distilled essential
information from dozens of workstation­related
studies into language the layman
will appreciate. His publication makes
heretofore esoteric engineering data ac­cessible
to those responsible for designing
VDT workstations or improving ones
already installed.
Much of the information presented in
this publication is not found in the promo­tional
literature of computer equipment
manufacturers. Since ergonomic factors
should be considered along with the tradi­tional
factors of cost, functional specifica­tions,
support, and so on, Mr. Tijerina's
guidelines will be a useful resource in the
vD:r workstation planning process.
in order to embrace the most sophisticated
computing potential available, and every
member has access to $70 million of com­puting
potential through OCLC."
''The system has made intellectual peers
of us all,'' he said. ''In OCLC we have cre­ated
a strong agent in the national biblio­graphic
effort, and we rule the life of that
agency.''
"The OCLC constituency is sometimes
regional, sometimes national, sometimes
international,'' he said. ''There are a lot of
voices saying 'Do nothing 'til you hear
from me.' " Mr. Shank stated that all things
considered, ''the system that allows 4,000
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Contents
Topics addressed in the publication in­clude:
video display; keyboard; seating;
work surfaces; work environment; sum­mary
of ergonomic guidelines for VDT
workstation design; and references.
Orders
This brochure, Product No. 819, is avail­able
at $1.50 a copy. OCLC members may
prepay or be billed; nonmembers must
prepay. Send billable orders to OCLC,
Documentation, 6565 Frantz Road,
Dublin, OH 43017-0702; send orders with
payments to OCLC, Dept. 630, Box ONB,
Columbus, OH 4 3265. -Cray Little is a
Technical Writer at OCLC.
libraries to talk to each other serves us
well.''
In her closing remarks, Users Council
President Hoadley urged OCLC and the
regional networks to settle their dif­ferences
and successfully negotiate a con­tract.
"This is a crucial time for OCLC,"
she said. "Our energies would be better
placed in more posi.tive endeavors.''
The next Users Council meeting will be
in Columbus, January 20-22, 1985. -Phil
Schieber is Editor ofti)e OCLC Newslet­ter
and Sharon Walbridge is Users Coun­cil
Coordinator.
6 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Membership and OCLC
( by Patricia Sacks
Editor's note: Patricia Sacks was a delegate to the OCLC
Users Council from PAL/NET from the Council's founding in
1978 to September 1984. She actively participated in the organ­ization
of the first Users Council meeting, drew up the Coun­cil's
first bylaws, and was a member of the first Users Council
Executive Committee. During her six years as delegate, she also
served on numerous task forces and committees. In this arti­cle,
originally given as a presentation to the Users Council on
September 25, 1984, Ms. Sacks explores the issue of what con­stitutes
membership in OCLC, and whether it is time to change
that concept.
* * * *
There is now only one class of membership and that is linked
to contribution to the database. Should there be more than one
class of membership-and who should decide the question?
Membership is one of man's most powerful elements. Our first
experiences with it are in the family. It has the power to embrace
and exclude. It is the fabric of faith and revolution. While it is
manifest in surface behavior, the deep structure of its unconscious
domain remains latent. It is conceptually analagous to noticing
the wind as it blows through the trees. We only recognize the
wind by its impact on objects that move and behave in the wind's
presence. If we want to see the invisible winds, we must look
to the trees' behavior. Likewise, if we want to plumb the mean~
ing of membership, we must look at the manifest. But we must
look with different eyes to see what resides in the empty spaces:
and defies our rationale logic.
In essence I have approached my role as a reactor to these mem~
bership questions-Should there be more than one class of Gen~
eral membership? Who should decide the question?-with an
orientation stemming from my experience in studying human
motivation and behavior within an organizational context, and
developing and implementing strategies for undertaking and
maintaining cooperative relationships. Generally the issues of
values, attitude-formation and incentive systems have not
received widespread recognition in the literature of cooperative
organizations. Much of the focus is on governing bodies and struc­tural
considerations, suggesting that there is an ideal organiza~
tional structure which will ''make cooperation work.''
My approach to my assignment involved three steps.
1) To define the driving forces of OCLC and its members' col­lective
sense of reality. They are: formal, promulgated docu­ments;
members' values; OCLC's corporate character; and en­vironmental
influences.
2) To advance my opinion with some acknowledgement of these
forces.
3) To avoid the question, "Who should decide the question?"
The Council expressed its position in the consensus statement
of january 1984: "Users in the various categories should be
determined jointly by networks and OCLC management,'' and
the topic is addressed by OCLC in their contract negotiations.
The bones of our understanding of membership lie in the for~
mal documents of OCLC and the Council. The A.D. Little Report
(1977) advanced a definition that "any organization that uses
OCLC 's services will be a member.'' That definition was modified
by the Code of Regulations,
There shall be three classes of member of the Corporation
and they shall be General Members, Users Council Mem~
hers and Trustee Members.
The Users Council Bylaws defines-
The General Members of the Corporation shall consist of
public, academic or nonacademic libraries and other en~
tities engaged in the furtherance of the purpose of the Cor­poration,
as set forth in the Code, by becoming a partici­pant
in the Corporation. A participant is an entity which
agrees to comply with the contractual obligations required
of a participant by the Corporation from time to time.
Our Libraries' contract with PALINET defines that contractual
obligation:
As a General Member we agree to contribute all current
Roman alphabet cataloging to the Online Union Catalog.
The second of the driving forces to be explored is members'
values. To accomplish this I conducted a "quick and dirty" survey
of 24 randomly~selected General Members in PALINET to iden­tify
their values and the meaning they attached to their member
classification. The methodology included a mail survey and
follow~up telephone interviews. The interviews focused on four
theoretical situations: deterioration in service; purchasing a new
service; delays in meeting development schedules; and use of the
library's records by a non-member.
I asked the General Member to respond as if the provider were
OCLC and as if the provider were an organization with whom(
the library had a customer relationship but not a member status. __
While the responses reflect a knowledge of established protocols
for "doing business" the choice of words, especially pronouns
(we, they), and the time spent on describing rewards such as
group affiliation, and commitments to values such as resource~
sharing defined the General Member's view of a symbiotic rela~
tionship with OCLC. While several factors may have affected my
dialogue with the representatives of the libraries (I did not have
time to conduct all interviews according to the protocol in the
Survey Research Center's Manual), I conclude that the contribu~
tions of these General Members are yielded by them because of-
Tangible rewards-catalog copy, cost savings, etc.
Solidaristic incentives-rewards which derive in the
main from the act of association, and include rewards such
as group membership and identification.
Purposive rewards-intangibles which derive from the
stated ends of membership rather than the act of
associating.
These results and the value statements should not be surpris~
ing because they are reflected in the work of the Users Council
and articulated in Council~generated documents, most notably
the Code of Responsible Use for OCLC Participating Libraries.
OCLC's corporate character does not fit ''the standard mold.''
OCLC is a pro~bono organization, devoted to societal service ob~
jectives; a membership firm, the governing privilege being to elect
delegates to the Users Council; and a private sector firm, using
revenue-generating capacities to secure capital for continuing ex~
pansion of services and products.
The Code defines the purposes of OCLC
to establish, maintain and operate a computerized library
network and to promote the evolution of library use, of
libraries themselves and of librarianship, and to provide
processes and products for the benefit of library users and
libraries, including such objectives as increasing availabil~
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reducing the rate of rise of library per-unit costs, all for
the fundamental public purpose of furthering ease of ac­cess
to and use of the ever-widening body of worldwide
scientific, literary and educational knowledge and infor­mation.
While the for-profit vendor's goal is profit, and to achieve that
he satisfies customers (what drives it is what its stockholders
want), OCLC's goal is to satisfy its members' needs and provide
for the common good delivering the greatest possible benefits
at the least possible cost, without losing money.
The fourth of the driving forces is a host of environmental in­fluences,
and I'll not conduct an inventory or call on the furies
here. Two passages from Harold Billings' thought-provoking
paper of the May Users Council meeting serve as touchstones-
. . . the real message to OCLC behind the Indianapolis
papei' is one of questioning credibility: Please reassure us,
as it were, that OCLC is committed to these important
things-that it is truly a part of the culture of national
librarianship.
Much of the uncertainty clearly stems from the tone of re­cent
times - from the copyright mess, from the contract
mess, from the AT&T divestiture unease, from confusion
about the Linked Systems Project.
My dialogue with the General Members confirms their sense
that OCLC is not a business operation, but a joint undertaking
in which they believe that they are participants. The copyright
issue has been devisive because it has the appearances of
separating the General Members from their belongings-the
database.
The requirements for membership are both obligations and
privileges, and the results establish dependencies and senses of
belonging and accomplishment for OCLC and its members. The
center of that relationship is a fulfilling of both an intrinsic
(resource-sharing) and economic value. The General Member is
the contributor of OCLC's raw materials, and assures the quality
of the product. OCLC needs these raw materials to produce a
product and support a service.
The machine-readable database is of enormous value to the
enterprise, and its contributors are rewarded by membership
status. The member enjoys the benefits of access to the data con­tributed
by it and other General Members, and to use it at
favorable prices.
Hallmark
A membership affiliation which acknowledges this relationship
of mutual benefits and the desire and ability of OCLC and its mem­bers
to perceive their mission for the common good must be
maintained. The Online Union Catalog is currently the means for
fulfilling this function. While OCLC and its members may exer­cise
various options within the membership class-rewards for
input of types or quantities of data, controls on use of data ad­dressing
common good, system usage alternatives-contributions
are central to the database and are the hallmark of a General
Member.
While the Background and Summary statement of September
12, 1984, from the OCLC Pricing Committee suggests that "OCLC
should make available to libraries a wide variety of different types
of membership and system usage alternatives in order to meet
libraries' needs and ensure the viability of OCLC," it also states
that:
In an environment where it is increasingly possible for li­braries
to use and contribute to the database more selec­tively,
OCLC members' interests are best served with a pric­ing
structure that economically encourages full contribution
of data to the shared database .... OCLC's strengths as a
shared database is tied inexorably to the services (catalog­ing,
interlibrary loan and union lists) that libraries
use ... Continued, full participation in the OCLC System
must be encouraged ...
OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Patricia Sacks
"While OCLC and its mem­bers
may exercise various
options within the mem­bership
class. . . contribu­tions
are central to the
database and are the
hallmark of a General
Member."
Cats and Dogs
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In my opinion, different levels of usage should not be used to
define more than one class of membership. The General Mem­bers
I interviewed percieve themselves as of ''one membership,''
in spite of their differences of size, type and income. To create
more than one class of membership introduces differentiations
that may be devisive and creates images of ''less than equal.'' New
roles-the classifiers and the watchdogs-may emerge, and the
rationalization of the qualifications will be more complex than
the delegate algorithm ever was. For example, if cats are full mem­bers,
and dogs are half members, do two dogs equal one cat?
This is not to say that OCLC and its members should not per­mit
third-party use when it is in the common good. The princi­ple
should be that it should not be more attractive to be a third
party than a member, and the pricing of services and products
to a third party should benefit the membership.
My conclusion, however, cannot rest on pricing as the rein­forcement
of our membership ethos. There is a prologue and it
emerges from those 24 interviews.
Conflicts of interest are a legitimate by-product of all organiz­ing,
and are more painful when they are in membership organiza­tions.
They challenge the sense of belonging and believing. (If
we share the same faith, how can you behave this way?) Hence,
no matter what images of unity are created, mechanisms for ex­ploring
and resolving conflicts must be built and maintained. Not
to do so generates the belief that conflict is illegitimate and en­courages
that which should be dealt with publicly to be pushed
into the unconscious domains, providing explosive power for
future outbursts. The Council is one of these conflict-resolving
mechanisms. Perhaps it would also be timely to review a recom­mendation
for a membership relations committee in that
prehistoric document, the A.D. Little Report. A New Governance
Structure for OCLC: Principles and Recommendations:
The Membership Relations Committee would be empowered
to constitute various advisory subcommittees, conduct market
research and surveys, and generally address important member­ship
issues that might require attention, perhaps as brought to
them by the Users' Council. It would normally work closely with
the Users' Council, sometimes in joint programs or in meetings
with committees of the Council.
8 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Cataloging Micro Enhancer for M300
Undergoing Field Testing c
Evaluation of the M300 Cataloging Mi­cro
Enhancer began on August 27 at 14
OCLC libraries representing 12 networks
as well as the OCLC/Europe office.
The Cataloging Micro Enhancer for the
M300 Workstation is a software package
that enables terminal operators to batch
some work in the OCLC Cataloging Sub­system.
Numeric search keys for the LC
card number, ISBN, ISSN, CODEN, and
OCLC control number can be typed into
a file for automatic searching in the On­line
Union Catalog. When a single biblio­graphic
record is retrieved it is stored in
a Local Bib File that can be edited offline,
when the M300 is not conununicating with
the Online system. After the records are
prepared, staff can begin automatic pro­cessing
of the work immediately or set the
M300 to begin processing later at a
specified time.
Comments
The test-site libraries are using the
Cataloging Micro Enhancer for a variety of
activities including backlog searching, non-
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by Frances McNamara
primetime production for regular and ret­rospective
conversion titles, and offline
editing for dial access. They have ex­pressed
satisfaction with such features as
the offline editing capability, the capture
of error messages from the Online System
and helpful user documentation. Teri
Keller at the University of Kentucky
Libraries reports that her staff is very en­thusiastic
about the Cataloging Micro En­hancer
software they are using for retro­spective
conversion. Dale Gort of the
Manitowoc Public Library writes that as
the number of M300s installed in his state
increases, so does interest in the Catalog­ing
Micro Enhancer. Mr. Gort states that
he has ''no doubt that the Cataloging Mi­cro
Enhancer will be a big success."
Some suggestions from evaluating
libraries have already been incorporated
into the Cataloging Micro Enhancer, while
others will be used in planning for an
enhanced Version 2. Some future enhance­ments
include batch printing and expan­sion
of search keys.
Demonstrations
The evaluation period is now drawing
to a close, and the Cataloging Micro En­hancer
for the M300 Workstation should
be available before the end of 1984. A
number of networks requested demonstra­tion
copies of the Cataloging Micro En­hancer
and are showing it this fall at state
and regional conferences.
For further information, prices and
order forms for the Cataloging Micro
Enhancer, contact your network office.
-Frances McNamara is Support &
Training Specialist at OCLC
Micro Software
Exchange Begins (
OCLC began an exchange program for
IBM PC and M300 Workstation microcom~
puter programs on October 1, 1984.
The OCLC Microcomputer Program Ex­change
(OMPX) will collect and distribute
public domain programs relating to library
operations.
According to Brian Staples, Microcom­puter
Programmer at OCLC and coor­dinator
of the Exchange, a catalog of avail­able
programs and guidelines for
contributors will be published in late fall.
''As librarians form M300 Workstation user
groups, the program exchange could help
these groups share information about pro­grams
they have developed for library op­erations,"
said Mr. Staples.
Programs
The OMPX collection will contain three
general types of material: contributed pro­grams
from the community of IBM PC and
M300 Workstation users, written in BASIC
or other languages; command files and
templates for use with commercially avail­able
programs such as DB Master, VisiCalc,
Supercalc, Lotus 1-2-3, dBase II, dBase III
and similar products; and data files, such
as the names and addresses of library
schools, library periodicals, and the like.
Successor
OMPX is the successor to the LIS/PX (Li-brary
and Information Services Program
Exchange) begun last fall by Dr. Allan Pratt
at the University of Arizona Graduate Li­brary
School. Dr. Pratt is presently serv­ing
as Visiting Distinguished Scholar in
OCLC's Office of Research. The disks
which were formerly available from
LIS/PX are now part of the OMPX col­lection.
"Our intent is to develop a collection of
low-cost or free programs which will be
made available to the library community
at large,'' said Dr. Pratt. ''These programs
will usually perform some library related
functions, although in some cases more
generalized programs will be accepted.''
Shareware
The collection will contain two general
classes of materials. One class will com­prise
programs that are freely contributed
by individuals and are in the public do­main.
The other class will be a limited
number of "shareware" programs. These
are freely available and copyable. How­ever,
if a user finds one of these to be
useful, he or she is requested to send a
monetary contribution as specified in the/
program (typically in the range of S 15-(
S75) to the author. ·
For more information on this program,
including submission guidelines and cata­logs,
write, OMPX, OCLC, 6565 Frantz
Road, Dublin, Ohio 43017.
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OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984 9
ILL Group Access Capability
Group Access is an exciting new ap­proach
to use of the OCLC Interlibrary
Loan (ILL) Subsystem. Now, for the first
time, libraries that are not OCLC members
have access to a quick, easy, and cost­effective
way to process interlibrary loan
requests. All members of cooperative ILL
groups, even those libraries not cataloging
with OCLC, can use the ILL Subsystem to
interact with one another.
Group Access is designed to:
• Increase the availability of mate­rial
to patrons by facilitating re­source
sharing within your coop­erative
ILL group
• Help meet the resource needs of
small libraries
• Increase the efficient exchange of
resources and streamline ILL pro­cedures
by consolidating ILL
transmission tools
• Build ILL activity on information
and resources available through
OCLC and its networks
I (Q) I OCLC Member
@ Selective User
by Paul Cappuzzello
Within each ILL group, OCLC recog­nizes
two types of users:
• OCLC members (libraries that cat­alog
through OCLC)
• Selective users (libraries that opt
to use the ILL Subsystem only)
OCLC members continue to use the ILL
Subsystem just as they do now. Selective
users access OCLC through dial-access, us­ing
direct dial, TYMNET, or Telenet. They
may perform all ILL Subsystem functions:
• Search an expanding database of
more than 11 million biblio­graphic
records modified to sup­port
interlibrary loan
• Retrieve location symbols for
group members and create ILL re­quests
from them
• Retrieve online serials union list
displays representing group hold­ings
and create ILL requests from
them
• Search the online Name-Address
Directory for ILL policies of
potential lenders
• Route ILL requests within the
group
Requests that cannot be satisfied within
the group can be referred by OCLC mem­bers
in the group to any of the more than
2,300 libraries in the OCLC Interlibrary
Loan Network.
Any cooperative ILL group (existing or
new) that includes OCLC members may
participate. You can expand your present
group or start a new one. A group may
have any number of OCLC members.
Group Access Capability began July I,
1984. There is a one-time startup fee,
which OCLC will waive until July I, 1985.
For further information on startup and
prices, contact your network office or
OCLC. -Paul Cappuzzello is System
Support & Training Specialist at OCLC.
10 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
New OCLC
Publications Available
OCLC has recently published many
items of interest to members. Here are a
few of them:
Archives and Manuscript Control
Format (supersedes Manuscripts
Format), $!9.00
Machine-readable Data Files For­mat,
$!9.00
OCLC-MARC Tape Format, $13.00
Micro Software Submittal Guide,
S!O.OO
Video Display Terminal Worksta­tion
Ergonomics, L. Tijerina, S 1.50
Archives and Manuscripts Control For­mat
includes new archival control fields.
Machine-readable Data Files Format de­scribes
the format for machine-readable
data files as applied in the OCLC Online
System. OCLC-MARC Tape Format, a new
title for OCLC Subscription Service
Documentation, describes OCLC's current
tape communication format and gives in­formation
about the MRDF format. The
Micro Software Submittal Guide explains
the steps software developers must follow
to participate in OCLC's Micro Software
Submittal Program.
Members can order by mail, through the
Acquisitions Subsystem NACN 27278, or
through the ILL Subsystem, institution
symbol ORD. Members may prepay or be
billed through network offices. Nonmem~
bers must prepay. Send paid orders ·to
OCLC, Dept. 630, Box ONB, Columbus,
OH 43265; send other orders to OCLC
Publications Orders, 6565 Frantz Road,
Dublin, Oh 43017.
University of Illinois Map &
Geography Library Starts
Retrospective Project for Maps
The Map & Geography Library of the
University of Illinois will begin working on
a large, retrospective map cataloging proj­ect
this fall that will result in adding ap­proximately
30,000 type E records to the
OCLC database, most of whom will be
new. Work will be done at the present
facilities with the temporary addition of
four staff members, three of which will be
professional catalogers. The work will in­volve
I level cataloging and will be done
according to current AACR2 standards for
cartographic materials. It will take approx­imately
two years to complete the catalog­ing
of the collection's sheet maps, which
number more than 350,000. A unique as~
pect of the project will be the cataloging
of county aerial photography. The library
currently has historical ftles for 102 Illinois
counties which contains sequential
coverage from the 1930's to the present,
and consists of over 130,000 individual
photographs.
It will take approximately two years to
complete the project, which has been
funded with a grant by the NEA Title-1!
Program for the first year, with anticipated
renewal.
The project will be directed by David A.
Cobb, Map & Geography Librarian. Patricia
A. Moore, Assistant Special Collections Li~
brarian, will coordinate the work.
Upon completion, it is anticipated the
type E database will have been increased
by approximately 20 percent, which will
enhance map cataloging and interlibrary
loan for this type of material significantly
throughout the region and county respec~
tively.
Accessions
List
Service
Enhanced
by Diane Zoeller
A new enhanced Accessions List prod~
uct will be available to users in january
1985. The improved version will offer
added sort options and provide par~
ticipating libraries with increased flex­ibility
in a more user~friendly format.
The new Accessions List product will in~
elude the following changes:
Format: Author and title entries will
print continuously
Call Number: Subscribers will select
classification scheme. A call number prints
on one line formatted with blanks to in­dicate
subfield codes
Bibliographic Levels: Subscribers will
select one of the following options: Print
m (monographs), c (collections), and s
(serials); or Print m (monographs), and c
(collections).
Primary Sort Options (Subscribers
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will choose one option): (.
Institution. Each title is arranged by sec~ \
ondary sort. No holding library codes will
be indicated.
Holding Library, All. Each holding li­brary's
list starts on a new page. All entries
are arranged in the same secondary sort se~
quence. All entries have the same type of
call number.
Selected Holding Libraries. This option
will allow institutions to generate an Ac~
cessions List for specific four~character
holding library codes without having to re~
ceive a list for the entire institution. Each
holding library's list starts on a new page.
Each holding library may select different
call numbers and/or secondary sort. Sec~
ondary sort options include author, call
number, title, subject (first occurrence of
a heading for the chosen subject option),
and subjects (all occurrences of headings
for the chosen subject option).
All current subscribers and new institu­tions
must complete an Accessions List
Service Request form in order to receive
the new Accessions List product. Network
offices are distributing Accessions List
Service Request forms and Order Instruc~
tions to all current subscribers in October.
OCLC member libraries can contact their
network office for additional information
about subscribing to the OCLC Accessions (
List Service. Independent libraries should · ··
contact OCLC's Marketing & User Services
Division, User Services & Support Section.
-Diane Zoeller is Product Service Coor~
dinator at OCLC
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American Chemical Society Names
Ronald Wigington Executive Director
WASHINGTON-Or. Ronald L. Wig­ington,
Vice Chairman of the OCLC Board
of Trustees, has been named deputy ex­ecutive
director for Washington Opera­tions
of the American Chemical Society.
An authority on computer technology
and information science, Dr. Wigington
has been a member of the SocietY's staff
since 1968. His previous ACS assignment
was as director of research and develop­ment,
Chemical Abstracts Service, Colum­bus,
Ohio. He has been a member of the
OCLC Board of Trustees since 1978. He
also served on the Advisory Council to the
Board of the Ohio College Library Center,
the group that recommended the present
governance structure of OCLC.
Dr. Wigington will be responsible for
several operating units at the American
Chemical Society's Washington head­quarters.
These include the Books and
Journals, Education, and Membership Divi­sion;
Financial Operations; Chemical & En­gineering
News, the ACS weekly magazine;
Public Affairs; Marketing; Personnel; Inter­national
Activities; Data Processing/Word
Processing; and Public Relations.
Before joining the ACS staff, Dr. Wig­ington
was associated with Bell Telephone
Laboratories in New Jersey, and with the
Department of Defense in Washington. In
1967-68, he was a lecturer in Technology
of Management at Washington's American
University, and was an adjunct faculty
member in Computer and Information Sci­ence
at Ohio State University from 1969
to 1978. He has been quite active in
elementary and secondary school educa­tion
in the Washington area, and served
two terms as president of the Upper Arling­ton
(Ohio) Civic Orchestra.
He is a recipient of a national Capital
Award from the District of Columbia
Council of Engineering and Architectural
Societies, and of a Meritorious Civilian
Service Award made by the National
Security Agency. In 1953, he was named
"the Honor Man" of the University of
Kansas, and was also a Summerfield
Scholar.
Dr. Wigington, 52, has served as a con­sultant
to governmental and private
organizations. Among these are the Na­tional
Science Foundation, National
Academy of Sciences, Department of
Defense, and Battelle Memorial Institute in
Columbus. He has served on the board of
Directors of OCLC, Ohio Teleport Cor­poration
and the Applied Information
Technology Research Center in Columbus,
Ohio. He was also president of the Na­tional
Federation of Abstracting and Infor-mation
Services and is currently chairman
of the National Research Council Advisory
Panel, a committee of the National Bureau
of Standards.
A native of Topeka, he completed the
B.S. in engineering physics at the Univer­sity
of Kansas and the M.S. in electrical en­gineering
at the University of Maryland. He
returned to the University of Kansas,
where he was awarded the Ph.D. in elec­trical
engineering. He completed the Ad­vanced
Management Program, Harvard
Graduate School of Business Administra­tion,
in 1977.
He is a member of several professional
organizations. Among these are Sigma Xi,
the honorary scientific society; the In­stitute
of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers; and the American Chemical
Society. He is author or coauthor of
numerous technical papers on computer
and information systems.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the
American Chemical Society is the world's
largest organization devoted to a single sci­ence.
It is a nonprofit scientific and educa­tional
association with a membership of
135,000 professional chemists and
chemical engineers worldwide.
Vivaldi Project Completed
by Jay Weitz
The Italian Baroque composer Antonio
Vivaldi (1678-1 741) was among the more
prolific creators of his or any musical
period, with close to 800 works to his
credit. Through the years there have been
no fewer than four major attempts to
organize this gigantic output into some
kind of coherent whole for the sake of per­formers,
publishers, musicologists, and, in­cidentally,
catalogers. The most recent,
Peter Ryom's 1977 thematic index,
Verzeichnis der Werke Antonio Vivaldis
(RV), was adopted by the Library of Con­gress
in 1980 as the identifying element in
uniform titles for most instrumental works
by Vivaldi. Exceptions include the relative
handful of works published during
Vivaldi's lifetime and still known as opera
1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 12, or by their
distinctive titles (Estro armonico, op. 3;
Stravaganza, op. 4; Cimento dell'ar­monia
e dell'inventione, op. 8; Cetra, op.
9; and Pastor fido, op. 13).
In a cooperative effort to improve the
quality of the OCLC Online Union Catalog,
Philip Youngholm of Connecticut College
(CTL) proposed in early 1982 a project to
update these uniform titles. By the time it
was fully in gear, the Vivaldi project had
expanded beyond its original NELINET
Music Users Group confines to encompass
18 volunteers who searched and recorded
relevant OCLC numbers. Mr. Youngholm
collated and edited the results, assigned the
new uniform titles, and sent them to Jay
Weitz at OCLC for input.
Although a small number ·of problems re­main
to be resolved, the project is now
substantially finished, with a total of I ,309
changes incorporated into records for the
instrumental works of Vivaldi. More
detailed statistics appear in the Music
OCLC Users Group MOUG Newsletter
no. 23, though a few stray additions to
these numbers have been made since they
were compiled. Further details on the proj­ect
can be had from Philip Youngholm,
Greer Music Library, Connecticut College,
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
New London, Connecticut 06320 (203-
447-7535) or from Jay Weitz at OCLC
(614-764-6156).
Projects such as this are but a small part
of the ongoing effort by the Online Data
Quality Control Section to keep up with
changes to headings of all types, and to
correct errors in the Online Union Cata­log.
They complement other efforts such
as Enhance, the change request process,
Merge Holdings, and CONSER, which con­tribute
to a more accessible and accurate
database. -Jay Weitz is Quality Control
Librarian at OCLC.
12 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Theological
User Group
Is Formed
by John Shaloiko
During the annual conference this past
summer of the American Theological Li­brary
Association, an ad hoc meeting of
theological librarians using OCLC services
resulted in the formation of the Theo­logical
User Group. The 50 participants
elected William Miller as Chairperson. Mr.
Miller is the librarian at Nazarene
Theological Seminary, Kansas City,
Missouri. Melinda Ann Reagor of Duke
University Divinity School was elected
Secretary.
Mr. Miller reported that as a result of an
August 24 OCLC System logon message, as
well as through word of mouth, an addi­tional!
OO individuals and institutions have
expressed an interest in the group.
The group's first newsletter will be
distributed in October. The group will ex­plore
the formation of an OCLC union list
of serials group for theological libraries.
They will also look into the possibility of
conducting a collection analysis of
theological libraries in OCLC to determine
a commonalty of holdings which could
then be used as a basis for a "core collec­tion"
for newly developed theological
libraries.
The next meeting of the Theological
User Group will be June 1985 in conjunc­tion
with the Theological Library Associa­tion
Conference at Drew University,
Madison, New Jersey. For further informa­tion
contact Dr. William C. Miller,
Nazarene Theological Seminary, 1700 East
Meyer Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri
64131. -:John Shaloiko is the Theologi­cal
Users Group Liaison at OCLC.
Texas Tech University Libraries, Lubbock, Texas, celebrated ten years of participation
in OCLC in September. The icing on the cake says: ''TTU-OCLC 1974-1984.'' In the photo
are (left-right): Elsie Burgy, OCLC trainer since TTU joined OCLC; Virginia Andrews, OCLC
Coordinator since TTU joined OCLC; and E. Dale Cluff, Director of Libraries at TTU since
1982. The cake was baked and decorated by TTU Libraries staff member Susan Hidalgo.
An Online Decade
for Texas Tech
In September 1984, Texas Tech Univer­sity
Libraries celebrated a decade of OCLC
membership. Having joined the biblio­graphic
utility in 1974, TTU now has 80
percent of its holdings in the database.
The anniversary was celebrated with a
party in the Technical Processing area.
Staff throughout the library participated,
including wearing the university's colors
(red and black), and decorating the
Technical Processing area with streamers,
balloons, and posters.
('
Texas Tech has 14 OCLC terminals and\
utilizes the cataloging, interlibrary loan, ·
and serials subsystems. All federal docu­ments,
including serials check-in, are
cataloged on OCLC. Texas Tech Univer­sity
Main Library is presently the project
directing agency for the West Texas Union
List, a project funded by Title III funds and
participated in by University of Texas­Permian
Basin, Lubbock City-County Li­brary,
TTU Law Library, as well as the TTU
Library_ TTU uses ALANET and is an OCLC
response time monitor library.
Rural Library Conference to Focus on
OCLC and Microcomputers
CLARION, Pennsylvania-The Center
for the Study of Rural Librarianship is
sponsoring a day-long conference No­vember
2 in Clarion, Pennsylvania on
"OCLC & Microcomputers: Linking Their
Use in Rural Libraries." By using slow-scan
television and the Public Services Satellite
Consortium, the conference will be
simultaneously broadcasted to rural librar­ians
in the NorthWest Regional Library Sys­tem,
Sioux City, Iowa.
Purpose of the conference is to demon-strate
the use of microcomputers in access­ing
OCLC for use in rural areas of the
United States.
Featured speakers include Jeanne
Isacco, Program Director, State & Public
Libraries, OCLC, and Mark Bendig, Re­search
Scientist, OCLC.
Ms. Isacco will talk on OCLC's phi­losophy
of the use of microcomputers and
how to determine which microcomputer
can best meet your needs in a rural library.
Mr. Bendig will address telecommunica-tions
alternatives and how to integrate the
microcomputer into the library en­vironment.
The Conference is sponsored by the
Center for the Study of Rural Librarianship,
College of Library Science, Clarion Univer­sity
of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA 16214
and the College of Continuing Education.,-
The Conference will be held at the~
Sheraton Inn, Routes 1-80 and PA. 68, on ....._­Friday,
November 2, from 9:30 a.m. tc
3o30p,m.
OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984 13
(
CONSER Abstracting and Indexing
(A&I) Coverage Project
The Association of Research Libraries
(ARL) and the National Federation of Ab­stracting
and Information Services (NF AIS)
are co~sponsoring a project to add abstract­ing
and indexing title coverage informa­tion
to the CONSER database which is
operational in OCLC's Online System.
Needed Link
This project will provide a needed link
between library catalogs and A&! (Ab­stracting
and Indexing) Services' citations,
will enable researchers to learn where
serials of interest are indexed, and will fa­cilitate
access high demand serials (i.e.,
those that are indexed). In addition, the
project will improve related operations in
the participating A&I Services and in the
many libraries that use CONSER biblio­graphic
records.
Project Goals
The goals for the project include:
1. To ensure that the CONSER database
contains records for all serials titles
covered by a selected core group of the
most widely used A&I Services in the
U.S. and Canada.
2 . To add to those records information
describing where each serial is indexed
or abstracted.
3. To provide to the participating A&I
Services standardized bibliographic
data (e.g., ISSN, key titles, library en­tries)
for each serial title they cover, en­abling
them to cite the serials they in­dex
in standardized library form.
4 . To develop the capability to produce
machine-readable serials lists for use by
participating A&I Services.
5. To keep the A&I information in the
CONSER database up-to-date.
Cooperation and Contribution
The significance of the project cannot
be overstated. It offers a new opportunity
for increased cooperation on the part of
the library and information service com­munities.
Representatives from five major
institutions or organizations-the Library
of Congress, the National Library of
Canada, OCLC, NFAIS, and ARL­developed
the project, supported by a
planning grant from the Council on Library
Resources. The five bodies have also
("_ ~!edged in-kind contributions that will
_ cotal over a half-million dollars. In addi­tion,
a contribution has been made by
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) to add
A&I coverage information for its complete
list of 12,821 serials.
by Julia C. Blixrud
Funding for the project has been
received from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Council on Library
Resources, the H.W. Wilson Foundation,
and the Xerox Foundation. The funds
raised to date allow for the complete pro­cessing
of a substantial core group of A&I
Services, covering an estimated 55,000
unique serials (in lists of an aggregate of
100,000 titles). If and when additional
funding is received, the core group may be
expanded to include as many as 100,000
unique serials.
Governance
The Association of Research Libraries
and the National Federation of Abstracting
and Information Services (NFAIS) have
joint responsibility for the project. ARL has
fiscal responsibility.
Project Directors were appointed from
the sponsoring organizations and from the
Library of Congress: Carol A. Mandel, ARL;
M. Lynne Neufeld, NFAIS; and Susan H.
(Wendy) Riedel, National Serials Data Pro­gram,
LC.
In accordance with the project proposal,
an Advisory Committee was established
from the library and information com­munities:
Linda Bartley, Library of Con­gress;
Brett Butler, Information Industry
Association; Thomas Delsey, National Li­brary
of Canada; Mary Ellen Jacob, OCLC;
jay Lucker, Association of Research
Libraries; and james Wood, NFAIS.
Project staff are employees of the
Association of Research Libraries but are
based within the National Serials Data Pro­gram
at the Library of Congress.
Scope
Seventy-six A&I Services have agreed to
participate in the Project at this writing.
They include 24 NFAIS members and ma­jor
U.S. and Canadian publishers as well
as some in the United Kingdom and on the
European continent. All have agreed to
supply not only an initial list of titles
covered by their index, but also to provide
information to maintain the title coverage
information for· their A&I product. Lists
totalling 96,000 titles and representing 118
different indexes or abstracts, have been
received by or are soon to be sent to the
Project Office.
The services to be contacted were
divided into three categories:
The first priority included all indexes
and abstracts in the Humanities as listed in
the original project proposal to the Na­tional
Endowment for the Humanities,
those services that are members of NF AIS
that had already indicated a willingness to
participate in the project, and the widely
used H.W. Wilson products.
Second priority services included·
heavily-used, general-coverage A&I prod­ucts,
A&I service products covering short
selective lists of titles that focus on the
most-used journals in their fields, and
Canadian services (to take advantage of the
National Library of Canada's cataloging
contribution).
Third Priority services were those
foreign services that overlap in coverage
with North American services, and A&I
service products that are specialized and
narrow in focus.
Contacts have been made with all serv­ices
on the original project proposal and
positive responses were received for all
first priority services and a high propor­tion
of second priority services. There are
outstanding requests at some services and
if they do respond positively, the project
will exceed its goal of 100,000 titles.
Methodology
The work of the project is being accom­plished
by comparing the lists of titles pro­vided
by the A&I services with the CON­SER
file, adding, verifying, or updating
coverage information for titles already in
CONSER, and creating bibliographic rec­ords
for titles not found in the file.
The project's OCLC symbol is AlP and
all records handled by the project (iden­tified
by an AlP in the 040) become part
of the CONSER database. Processing
reached the half-way mark in September.
40,000 unique CONSER records have
already been enriched with over 50,000
citation notes (MARC field 510's). Scien­tific
American is the leader as the title
most indexed (nearly 30 at the last count).
Of significance to OCLC members is the
method of processing. Under contract to
the project, OCLC Retrospective Conver­sion
Section staff search each list of titles
against the CONSER/OCLC database. Each
time a title is matched, a 510 is added to
the record and it is replaced in the
database. Questions, problems, no
matches, etc., are noted on the lists, and
they are returned to the project office for
further review. All OCLC work results in
printouts of the records to which 510s
have been added. These printouts are pro­duced
bi-weekly and sent to the project of­fice
where they are sorted to identify rec­ords
requiring additional enhancement.
Record Enhancement
Record enhancement includes the addi­tion
of any missing International Serials
Data System (ISDS) elements (ISSN, key ti-
14 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
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Julia Blixrud in the CONSER A&I office at the Library of Congress.
tle, and abbreviated key title) to the online
records. U.S. imprints are being handled
by the National Serials Data Program
(NSDP), Canadian imprints by the National
Library of Canada (NLC) and ISDS/Canada,
and the foreign imprints are the work of
the project staff. To date, NSDP, NLC, and
project staff have enhanced over 10,000
CONSER records by adding the missing
ISDS elements.
Statistics show that of the titles pro­cessed
to date, 52% are foreign imprints,
44% are U.S., and 4% are Canadian.
Nearly half of the U.S. titles have no ISDS
elements missing, and a quarter of the
Canadian titles and just over a third of the
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foreign titles require no further work.
These percentages have been changing and
will continue to do so as more work is
done on the records.
The missing ISDS elements jn the U.S.
and Canadian titles are primarily ab­breviated
key titles (MARC field 210).
Although not a searchable field in the
OCLC database at this time and not widely
used by libraries, the 210 is an important
field for A&I services as most of their
publications include a list of abbreviated
titles. 210 assignments are being made by
NSDP and NLC for all titles they process
for the project.
The foreign title processing is, as ex­pected,
more complicated. Half of the
foreign records are missing ISSNs (MARC
field 022) and key titles (field 222), and
project staff spend many hours using the /
ISDS register searching for the missing data (
elements. Over forty percent of the rec- \
ords have been located in the register,
making the searching well worth the ef­fort,
and the data elements are being added
to the online records.
Surrogates (photocopies of the cover, ti­tle
page, and any other pages showing ti­tle
and publishing information) are being
gathered for any U.S. or Canadian titles not
yet authenticated by NSDP or NLC and any
foreign titles not found in the ISDS
register. They are either found in LC's col­lection
or requested from the A&I Services.
The; surrogates received for the Canadian
and U.S. imprints are sent to NLC or NSDP
for ISSN assignment and centers around
the world with requests for ISSN and key
title. The goal is that at the end of the proj­ect
all records with 510s will also have
ISDS elements and be a part of the inter­national
serial bibliographic control
system.
Project staff are also adding any missing
COD ENs (field 030) to the online records
if they are included on the list from the
A&I Service. Additional record upgrading
and identification of duplicates are also by­products
of the processing.
Cooperative Database Building
The first pass through the lists of titles
has resulted in the identification of only
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(
7 percent having no matches in the
database. This is less than initially
predicted and confirms the benefit and ex­tent
of CONSER's cooperative database
building effort. In some cases a record has
been added to the database between the
first and second pass processing of the list,
delighting project staff. No-match titles are
returned to the A&I Service with a request
for a surrogate. Sometimes the returned
surrogates include information resulting in
the finding of a record in the database. Any
surrogates for titles not found will be orig­inally
cataloged by the project staff for
foreign imprints, by NSDP for U.S. titles,
and by NLC for Canadian publications.
What To Look For
OCLC database users, both public and
technical services, should take note of a
few things regarding this project. First, the
majority of the processing (adding the 51 Os
and ISDS elements) has been taking place
throughout the summer and will continue
until the beginning of 1985. Over 15,000
fields of information (either 510, 022, and
222) are added to serial records each
month.
The 510 includes three subfields. Sub­field
a is for a key title of the index or
abstract. In most cases, this will be true for
the project, however, there are some on­line
databases participating in the project
and those with no printed counterpart will
have the online name in the 510. Subfield
xis for the ISSN of the printed index. Sub­field
b includes dates of coverage as they
have been supplied by the A&I service.
All 5 !0s added by project staff will in­clude
an indicator value of either 1 (for
complete coverage) or 2 (for selective
coverage) for the participating services'
products. Indicator values of 0 (unknown
coverage) are usually entered by other
database contributors and are based on in­formation
on the verso of the title pages
of serial publications. This information
may or may not be accurate as not all serial
publishers consult with the A&I services
as to whether or not titles are being
covered by them. Requests to change 510
information should be directed to the A&I
project for verification, especially for
those 510s with indicators of 1 or 2.
The 510 also prints as a note on catalog
cards. The print constants are based on the
indicator values. The 510s in the records
may be in no particular order (i.e., either
alphabetically or by indicator value). The
card print program will not group the in­dexes
by type of note correctly unless they
are put in order on the screen before card
production. Libraries using the records for
. online systems should also be aware of the
difference in meaning of the indicator
values and the order of the notes
themselves if the local system includes a
method for searching and displaying the
fields.
Record Distribution
Because project records are CONSER
records, they become part of the MARC-S
distribution system. A notice has gone out
to MARC-S subscribers alerting them to the
increase in the number of records on their
tape and to the increase in size of the rec­ords.
Each addition of a 510 to an authen­ticated
record and the subsequent record
replacement will add a record to the CON­SER
tapes. Some popularly indexed rec­ords
will be coming through often.
System Limits Reached
The system limit of 50 variable fields has
been reached on nearly 50 records and it
is not possible to add any more index notes
(or any other fields for that matter) to
those records. Discussion and investiga­tion
of alternatives to handling the addi­tional
A&I information without losing
essential cataloging data is in process.
Project Output
A&I services participating in the project
will be receiving a listing of their serial
titles as represented in the CONSER
database. This list will include ISSNs, key
titles, and abbreviated key titles and the
A&I services will be encouraged to make
use of the standardized data elements in
subsequent production of their own lists.
Multiple Benefits
Benefits of this project are many In ad­dition
to the introduction of needed links
between library catalogs and A&I citations
and the enhancement of the serial biblio­graphic
records with ISDS data elements
ensuring international standardized iden­tification,
the project also provides:
• identification of the core group of
serials (as determined by the titles be­ing
covered by A&I services)
• a reliable, up-to-date source of informa­tion
on the titles currently being in­dexed
or abstracted by various services
• identification of high-demand serials
• addition of records to the CONSER
database for titles currently not
cataloged
• information for overlap and gap studies
• enhancement of precision in literature
searches by providing information on
where and when titles where indexed
• support for acquisitions, interlibrary
loan, resource sharing and collection
development activities through the con­tinuing
maintenance of the biblio­graphic
records.
Project Completion
The project is scheduled to be com­pleted
in April 1985. The initial process-
OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984 15
ing, record enhancement, and any origi­nal
cataloging resulting from the
processing will be finished by then. At that
time the maintenance activity will be
turned over to NSDP and NLC.
A current list of the abstracting and in­dexing
services ii:tcluded in the project
follows. Individuals with questions about
the project are encouraged to contact the
CONSER A&! Coverage Project, c/o Na­tional
Serials Data Program, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC 20540,
202/287-5493, for further information.
-Julia C. Blixrud is Project Manager of
the CONSER Abstracting ana Indexing
Coverage Project.
OCLC Gives
In-kind Grant
for A & I
Project
OCLC has made an in-kind grant of ap­proximately
S!OO,OOO to the CONSER
A & I Coverage Project to assist the
Association of Research Libraries and the
National Federation of Abstracting and In­formation
Services in providing online ab­stracting
and indexing coverage for the
CONSER database resident in OCLC's On­line
Union Catalog.
OCLC's in-kind contribution of
$100,000 supplements $76,000 granted to
the Association of Research Libraiies for
the project from the Council on Library
Resources, Inc.
The project will result in the OCLC Ret­rospective
Conversion Service's having
searched the OCLC database for approx­imately
95,000 serial entries contained in
approximately 100 abstracting and index­ing
lists. The eight terminal operators and
a team supervisor working on the project
expect to finish by February 1985.
"When a matching serial record is
located for a list entry, a citation note (51 0
field) for the name of the A & I service is
added to the bibliographic record," said
Donna Struthers, Retrospective Conver­sion
Service Shift Manager. ''For example,
here are a few of the eleven 510s we've
added to the bibliographic record for the
European journal of Pharmacology, Ex­cerpta
Medica, Bibliography of
Agriculture, Chemical Abstracts, and In­dex
Medicus.
Authoritative
According to J. Randolph Call, OCLC's
Retrospective Conversion Section
Manager, and Project Manager for the
coverage project, one of the purposes of
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16 OCLC NEWSLETTER November 1984
Pratt Institute and Grove City Public
Acquire LS/2000
Pratt Institute and Grove City Public Li­brary
are the latest institutions to acquire
LS/2000, OCLC's standalone, minicom­puter-
based local library system.
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, is
the first academic library in the New York
metropolitan area to install LS/2000. The
library will use a Data General S/140,
16-bit minicomputer, with 12 terminals.
The system will support a collection of ap­proximately
150,000 volumes. Installation
is scheduled for Spring, 1984. OCLC will
provide hardware, software, terminals and
printers, training and profiling, as well as
ongoing hardware and software main­tenance.
OCLC Grant.
(continued from page 15)
the project is to provide abstracting and
indexing services with authoritative bibli­ographic
records. "These initial lists are
one method of communicating informa­tion,"
he said.
The Pratt Institute will serve as a dem­onstration
site for OCLC, offering on-site
system demonstrations each month for
other libraries in the evaluation and selec­tion
process for a local library system.
Details of these demonstrations will be
released in the near future.
Grove City
The Grove City Public Library, Grove
City, Ohio, will use a Data General
MV4000, 32-bit minicomputer, with 41
terminals. The LS/2000 system will sup­port
the main library and two branches.
Installation is scheduled for December
1984. OCLC will provide hardware, soft­ware,
terminals and printers, training and
profiling, as well as ongoing hardware and
software maintenance.
Because of Grove City's proximity to
OCLC in the Central Ohio area, the Library
will serve as a demonstration site for
OCLC, offering on-site system demonstra­tions
each month for other libraries in the
evaluation and selection process for a local
library system. Details of these demonstra­tions
will be released in the near future.
With the addition of these institutions,
OCLC now supports 26 LS/2000 computer
installations serving 32 libraries in 12
states, the District of Columbia and the
United Kingdom.
port to the A & I Coverage Project which
will distribute data to the A & I services.
According to Sue Ahrenhold, Analyst at
OCLC and Product Manager for the
A & I Coverage Lists, the report will con­sist
of lists of bibliographic citations for
each A & I service representing journals
these services list or cite in their
publications.
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I
'
Each list reflects a different abstracting
or indexing publication, such as Annual
Bibliography of English Language ana
Literature, Geo Ref Serials List, Index to
Free Periodicals, Popular Magazine Re­view,
and Canadian Periodical Index.
"We are sending to the Library of Con­gress
CONSER serials records in machine
readable form," said Mr. Call. "They are
part of the machine readable tape OCLC
supplies for CONSER. And, we produce
lists that tell which titles we were able to
match, those we were not able to match,
and then any multiple record matches. Our
hit rate is about 90 percent. Titles not
found will be added to the database by the
team at the Library of Congress headed by
Julia Blixrud (Project Manager of the
CONSER A & I Coverage Project)."
Scholars
In March 1985 OCLC plans to issue are-
Ms. Ahrenhold said: "Bibliographic in­formation
about A & I services should help \
scholars and faculty members by providing
them with more sources of information in
their particular areas of interest.''
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