The OCLC M310 Workstation died this year but we decided to cancel our second line into Technical Services and use only our remaining line here and the one into Interlibrary Loan. This was possible, in part, because all library staff can now access OCLC at our desks through the internet. This was accomplished by Bill Doering with some assistance from Charles Marx. We continue to try to implement OCLC Cataloging Microenhancer for original cataloging but problems with the software make it difficult to use on networked computers. Bill has assisted with this problem, but OCLC will probably have to redesign the software to resolve the problem.
Parenthetical percentages are the change from the average of the last five years.
First, the records that had been automatically loaded into the system had to be cleaned up to remove extraneous copies and to add holdings information. Only the bibliographic information transferred correctly from one system to the next. No holdings information of what bound volumes, microfilm, or current issues the library owns transferred automatically to the new system. During only three months of work, over 7,000 holdings records were corrected or deleted. Once basic cleanup was finished and older holdings were input, we arranged for staff from Ebsco, our subscription agent, to create our initial online acquisitions records for us.