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About this Guide

Chapter overview

This chapter contains information about how to use this Guide.

Overview

Scope

The WorldCat Collection Analysis Service User Guide is a guide to the operation of the WorldCat Collection Analysis service and to the various analysis displays produced by the service.

Screen illustrations

Screen displays shown in this document are taken from OCLC development environments; these environments are typically limited in scope. Although the names of real OCLC member libraries are often shown, the associated data is displayed for demonstration purposes only and is not in any way meant to be an accurate representation of their holdings.

Audience

The WorldCat Collection Analysis Service User Guide is designed to assist acquisitions librarians and other library staff in identifying strengths, locating gaps, and otherwise evaluating their collections.

Superseded documents

This is the second edition of this document.

Typographic Conventions

Characters

Throughout this Guide the following typographical conventions are used:

Character Name
l, l lowercase letter l (el)
1, 1 digit one
I, I uppercase letter i (eye)
O, O upper case letter o
0, 0 digit zero

Note: These characters are not interchangeable.

Keyboard keys

Keys that you press are enclosed in angle brackets < >. The keys in this Guide are those found on the typical PC keyboard.

Examples:  < Shift >  < Alt >  < F10 >

Data you enter

In procedures, data that you must enter exactly as shown appears in boldface type.

Example:  luna,sci,c.

Data you need to supply is described in brackets in italic typeface.

Example:au  [keyword]

Do not type the brackets.

Availability

Available formats

The WorldCat Collection Analysis User Guide is available on the OCLC Web site at http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/collectionanalysis/using/, as both an HTML document and a printable .pdf file.

Updates

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This list is for announcements only; it is not a discussion list.

Acknowledgments

OCLC acknowledges the efforts of all the people who participated in producing the WorldCat Collection Analysis Service User Guide.

OCLC reviewers

Glenda Lammers, Rob Ross, Myrtle Myers, Pete Insabella

Network reviewers

Paulette Haiser, OCLC Capcon

Writer

Lydia Pratt

Technical assistance

Lorna Williamson