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17 April 2013
OCLC’s RDA Policy Statement Webinar
OCLC’s WorldCat Quality Management staff gave an in-depth look at OCLC’s RDA Policy Statement that became effective on March 31, 2013. This webinar also provided additional information about what bibliographic records can be upgraded and what kinds of changes can be made.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]
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11 April 2013
OCLC’s RDA Policy Statement Webinar
OCLC’s WorldCat Quality Management staff gave an in-depth look at OCLC’s RDA Policy Statement that became effective on March 31, 2013. This webinar also provided additional information about what bibliographic records can be upgraded and what kinds of changes can be made.
- Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]
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28 January 2013
Creating Cataloging Efficiencies
Managing E-books Metadata
- Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Venue: The Conference Center of the Washington State Convention Center, Room LL3
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time [UTC -8]
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27 January 2013
The Future of OCLC Cataloging, Interlibrary Loan and Discovery at Webscale
Learn about the future of OCLC’s cataloging, interlibrary loan and discovery services.
- Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
- Venue: The Conference Center of the Washington State Convention Center, Room LL4–5
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time [UTC -8]
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07 January 2013 - 07 January 2013
Improving WorldCat - How You Can Participate
During the webinar, Ian Fairclough, Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian, George Mason University and Cynthia M. Whitacre, Manager, WorldCat Quality & Partner Content, OCLC, speak about the improvements that can be made to WorldCat master records. Included in this presentation for cataloging staff at member libraries, is when and how to make corrections to WorldCat records and how to request that OCLC staff edit a WorldCat record.
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17 December 2012 - 17 December 2012
OCLC Credit & Incentive Program Discussion
During the webinar, OCLC staff and members of the Global Council Advisory Group on Incentives engage with librarians at member libraries on the topic of OCLC cataloging credits and incentives, to provide background on the current credits model, share findings and recommendations of the OCLC Global Council Cost Sharing Models Task Force, and gather input and feedback from member libraries.
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28 November 2012 - 28 November 2012
Using macros in Connexion for CJK materials webinar, Advanced session
Connexion macros can be very useful for expedited cataloging, both for making repetitive changes to records and for generating first-draft transliterations of non-Latin text. Part two of this session includes discussion about and demonstrations of creating and customizing macros those are somewhat complex and/or deal with non-Latin text, as well as a testimonial about how useful these types of macros have been. Presenters: Joel Hahn, Niles Public Library District, and Erica Chang, University of Hawaii.
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20 September 2012
WorldShare Metadata collection management overview
David Whitehair, OCLC provides an overview of the new WorldShare Metadata collection management functionality along with details to get started using the new tool.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]
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14 August 2012 - 14 August 2012
International Dewey Users Meeting
The following presentations were made at the International Dewey Users Meeting, held in conjunction with the World Library and…
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25 June 2012 - 25 June 2012
Managing Metadata for E-book Collections
The focus of this popular event held during ALA Annual in Anaheim, California, was metadata management for e-book collections. Speakers…
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23 June 2012 - 23 June 2012
Dewey update at ALA Annual 2012
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at ALA Annual 2012.
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12 April 2012 - 12 April 2012
Connexion enhancements
Learn about authority controlling improvements which will apply to Windows-based Connexion client and Web-based Connexion browser users, and the enhancements - GLIMIR, Classify, RDA workforms and macro changes included in the recent release of Connexion client version 2.40.
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15 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Dewey update at PLA 2012
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at PLA 2012.
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07 February 2012 - 07 February 2012
DDC Abridged 15 Sneak Preview
See a preview of the newly released Abridged Edition 15 and learn about the new features in this print edition of the DDC, including:
- Many new topics and significant updates to selected fields
- A complete overhaul to the representation of groups and people
- Elimination of dual headings and unbalanced spans
- Cessation of partial abridgement of parallel notation
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07 February 2012 - 07 February 2012
DDC 23 Update
An update on the print and web versions of DDC 23 and tips on using DDC 23 and WebDewey 2.0
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23 January 2012 - 23 January 2012
Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
On January 23, 2012, OCLC members convened at Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference as part of their ALA Midwinter experience…
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21 January 2012 - 21 January 2012
Dewey update at ALA Midwinter 2012
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at ALA Annual 2011.
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12 December 2011 - 12 December 2011
VIAF Show and Tell
In this interactive webinar, five OCLC Research Library Partners demonstrated how they use VIAF.
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21 October 2011 - 21 October 2011
Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
, OCLC Member Services Consultant, and , Vice President, Library Services for the Americas, OCLC, welcomed more than 70…
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28 September 2011 - 28 September 2011
OCLC CJK User Group Chinese Cataloging Webinar
Charlene Chou of Columbia University leads a webinar on Chinese cataloging.
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27 September 2011 - 27 September 2011
Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
Jim Galbraith, Associate Director for Collections and Scholarly Resources and Interim Library Director, DePaul University Libraries, Lori Murphy, Metadata and Digital Library Services Coordinator, DePaul University Libraries, and Eric Forte, OCLC Member Services Consultant kicked off this September 27 event by welcoming 142 participants.
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18 August 2011 - 18 August 2011
Update on Controlling Headings in WorldCat and Connexion Changes
Becky Dean, OCLC discusses changes to controlling functionality in WorldCat along with changes to Connexion that apply to users of both the Web-based Connexion browser interface and the Windows-based Connexion client interface. The changes covered include those that support automatic date expansion for personal names, reduce unexpected automatic subfield flips, and resolve known problems in controlling.
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16 August 2011 - 16 August 2011
International Dewey Users Meeting
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12 August 2011 - 12 August 2011
DDC 23 workshop at IFLA 2011
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27 June 2011 - 27 June 2011
Creating Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
, Director, Member Services, OCLC, welcomed 75 participants to a session during the ALA Annual conference. This meeting included a…
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26 June 2011 - 26 June 2011
From Charles Cutter to Tim Berners-Lee: Data Quality in the 21st Century
Lars Svensson of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek discusses the DNB's work with linked data, Adam Schiff of the University of Washington…
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24 June 2011 - 24 June 2011
Dewey breakfast/update at ALA Annual 2011
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at ALA Annual 2011. All links will open a PowerPoint (.ppt) presentation.
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19 June 2011 - 19 June 2011
OCLC Update at AJL Meeting
David Whitehair and Cynthia Whitacre, OCLC, provides an OCLC update remotely to the Association of Jewish Libraries conference attendees.
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17 June 2011 - 17 June 2011
Good Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
, Dean, University Library System, Wayne State University welcomed 88 participants to this June 17 event, generously hosted by the Wayne…
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08 June 2011 - 08 June 2011
OCLC CJK User Group Japanese Cataloging Webinar
Keiko Suzuki, Japanese Officer for the OCLC CJK Users Group and Japanese Catalog Librarian at Yale University, leads a webinar on how to identify and handle catalog records that originate in Japan.
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12 May 2011 - 12 May 2011
Genre/Form Headings webinar
Linda Gabel, OCLC, discusses changes to the way the Library of Congress genre terms are tagged in MARC records. The discussion also includes usage of other genre/form vocabularies in MARC records.
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20 April 2011 - 20 April 2011
Connexion Enhancements
Learn about authority control improvements that will apply to Windows-based Connexion client and Web-based Connexion browser users. The enhancements to Connexion client version 2.30 are also discussed.
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10 March 2011 - 10 March 2011
DDC 23 Sneak Preview
Joan Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system at OCLC previewed the new print edition of DDC 23. The presentation is available for download. Questions raised during the webinar will be addressed on the Dewey blog in the coming weeks.
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17 February 2011 - 17 February 2011
Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
, Director of the Library and Senior Librarian at Florida Southern, welcomed 92 participants, and , Senior Product…
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26 January 2011 - 26 January 2011
All About E: Management, Discovery and Delivery of Electronic Content with WorldCat
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02 December 2010 - 02 December 2010
Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
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09 November 2010 - 09 November 2010
Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference
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28 October 2010 - 28 October 2010
Cataloging Defensively: When to Input a New Record in the Age of DDR
During the session, Jay Weitz, OCLC, discusses the importance of creating a new WorldCat record that distinguishes itself from others.
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01 October 2010 - 01 October 2010
Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference: New York
Over 60 participants started their day listening to , Chief Librarian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson…
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15 September 2010 - 15 September 2010
Batchload User Group Meeting
Recorded during the Batchload User Group Meeting webinar, held Sept. 28, 2010. OCLC speakers Ted Fons, Pam Harper and Tony Chirakos,…
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28 June 2010 - 28 June 2010
Cataloging Alchemy: Making Your Data Work Harder
Recorded at the ALA Annual 2010 conference
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26 June 2010 - 26 June 2010
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Recorded at the ALA Annual 2010 conference
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16 January 2010 - 16 January 2010
Redesigning Technical Services Workflows
Leaders in the global technical services community share their perspectives on the theme, "Dollars and sense: paying for the…
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15 December 2009 - 15 December 2009
Provider-Neutral Webinar
New provider-neutral cataloging policy changes the cataloging of online monographic resources resulting in fewer bibliographic records.
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25 June 2009 - 25 June 2009
Parallel Records Webinar
This webinar discusses non-English records, parallel records, hybrid records, and what to do when you come across any of these in WorldCat.
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29 May 2009 - 29 May 2009
The New World Metadata
Librarians were one of the few professional groups concerned, on a daily basis, with metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization.…
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06 April 2009 - 06 April 2009
A Symposium for Publishers and Librarians
Held March 18-19, 2009 to address issues surrounding the metadata needs for libraries and the publisher supply chain.
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24 January 2009 - 24 January 2009
Redefining Technical Services Workflows with OCLC
OCLC is helping libraries reenvision the technical services workflow in order to eliminate redundancy, improve efficiency and enhance…
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