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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Barbara Vaughan, Column Editor


UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION ARCHIVE ON VOYAGER

The UCLA Film and Television Archive has been working with the UCLA Libraries over the last year on a transition from ORION2 (TAOS) library information system software to Voyager software.  As of July 7, 2004, our new Voyager OPAC is now available at: <http://cinema.library.ucla.edu>.

For general assistance in searching the catalog, please e-mail our Research and Study Center at: <arsc@ucla.edu>.

For technical information on the Voyager implementation or for a detailed searching guide that gives advice on how to search on titles, credits, studios and networks, topics, historical events, forms such as animation, genres such as gangster films, and fictitious characters such as Bugs Bunny and Sherlock Holmes, please e-mail your request to me at: <myee@ucla.edu>.

Our bibliographic records can now be downloaded from the Voyager catalog in MARC 21 format using Z39.50, and they are also available in MARC 21 format on RLIN.

It might be of interest to FRBR fans that we have created expression-based records for moving image materials, with manifestations in different physical formats or with minor differences in distribution information placed into MARC21 holdings records that are attached to the appropriate expression record.  We use uniform title authority records for the work entity, and make lots of cross references on our authority records from other titles under which our motion picture and television works have been released or broadcast.  Unfortunately, Voyager will not allow us to display the cross references in the authority records along with the uniform titles in the bibliographic records, so users have to do two searches to assemble the work entity (the title search and the title variants search).

[adapted from a message originally posted by:]
 Martha M. Yee
UCLA Film and Television Archive
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA  90038-2635


OCLC PASSPORT & CATME "END-OF-LIFE" DATES

As of May 1, 2005 all users of Passport for Cataloging must migrate to either the Connexion browser or the Connexion client.

As of July 1, 2005 all users of CatME, CJK and Arabic must migrate to the Connexion client.

June 2005, OCLC will retire Passport for Union List, and Connexion will support local holdings (LDR) maintenance. OCLC will release more details over the next few months.

Migration options:
OCLC Connexion Browser
 Take advantage of easy Internet access, simple searching, easy cataloging of Internet resources, no extra software to install and maintain, and automated heading verifications. For those who do not need macros, batch processing or offline editing, and who like a system that is easy to access, easy to use, and does not require a lot of training, the Connexion browser may be the best option.
OCLC will issue more details over the next few months.

OCLC Connexion Client
The client is a powerful, flexible Windows-based interface with productivity-boosting enhancements including macros, additional keyboard customization (all navigation and cataloging actions can be assigned to key combinations) and integrated label printing.
Begin using the Connexion browser. Users can log on at <http://connexion.oclc.org> with their cataloging authorization and password.

Begin using the Connexion client. Download it <http://psw.oclc.org/software.htm>.

There is a Connexion browser tutorial at
<http://www.oclc.org/common/cgi-oclc/arm.cgi/http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/tutorials/connexion/browsertutorial/cxbovu05/index.html>.

There is a Connexion client tutorial at
<http://www.oclc.org/common/cgi-oclc/arm.cgi/http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/tutorials/connexion/clienttutorial/clovue/index.html>

To learn how to use Connexion, visit the Connexion training Website at
<http://www.oclc.org/support/training/connexion/default.htm>, or contact your regional service provider <http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/> to learn of upcoming workshops and training opportunities.

To learn more about migrating to Connexion, visit the Connexion migration Website <http://www.oclc.org/connexion/migrating/default.htm>.

For questions regarding this announcement, please contact the regional service provider <http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/>, OCLC Customer Support at 1-800-848-5800 or +1-614-793-8682 or <support@oclc.org>.

[adapted from a message originally posted by:]
 Chris Grabenstatter, Manager, Cataloging Products Management
Cataloging Products & Services
OCLC Inc.

phone: (614)764-6181
      or: (800) 848-5878 x6181
FAX: (614) 718-7249
e-mail: <grabenst@oclc.org>


PREPARING FOR A SESSION ON MUSIC BLOGS
AT THE MLA CONFERENCE IN VANCOUVER

For the February 2005 MLA conference in Vancouver, the Information Sharing Subcommittee will be giving a public session on music blogs.  For those who may not be hip to this form of electronic communication, here is a definition from the Internet.com "Webopedia" at <http://www.pcwebopedia.com>.
blog

(n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
(v.) To author a Web log.

Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs).
We would like to add that the term "blog" and the technology that creates them are increasingly being used for Web-based communication among members of a group with some sort of common interest, whether it be a group of rock-n-roll fans or a committee or team within an organization.

In preparation for our public session in February, we would be grateful to hear from you about blogs that you know (and like).  These might be blogs on composers, performing groups or genres of music; or blogs used in academia to facilitate a music or music library-related initiative or special project; or they might be blogs used in a way we have not yet considered!

Please send all responses to:

John Anderies, Chair
Information Sharing Subcommittee

[Contact information:]
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041-1392
phone: 610-896-2948 (office)
phone: 610-896-1005 (music library)
e-mail: <janderie@haverford.edu>

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