OCLC Update By Rosario Garza Accessions List Service Being Redesigned OCLC's Accessions List service, which allows libraries to receive a listing of current acquisitions, is being redesigned. Once the redesign is completed, users will receive the monthly listing in electronic format. Two format choices will be available: eye-readable, print-ready format or HTML format. Users will be able to load the information into a word processor for any desired additional formatting or onto their web site. The reports will be delivered via the OCLC Product Services Web. Because users will be able to print the listings directly from the electronic file, the paper product will no longer be mailed out. The current semi-monthly and quarterly frequencies will no longer be available. Availability of the electronic reports is scheduled for October 1999, with billing to begin in January 2000. During the first three months of the electronic report's production, OCLC plans to continue to produce the paper reports for current subscribers. The paper product will be discontinued as of January 2000. Although current subscribers will be moved automatically to the electronic products, users will have the option to cancel the service. Pricing has not been finalized, but a flat fee is being considered. CORC Project Participants Hold First Meeting Nearly 90 people, representing more than 50 institutions participating in OCLC's Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) research project, met in Dublin April 26-27. Participating institutions in five countries are using a system developed by OCLC's Office of Research to extend the WorldCat collaborative cataloging model to the digital resources of the World Wide Web. The two-day meeting, hosted by the OCLC Office of Research, was the first face-to-face meeting of the participants since the project began in January 1999. It provided an opportunity for representatives and OCLC staff to share experiences from the project's first few months. Participants provided feedback on the current state of the project and discussed its future directions. Among the topics covered were: authority control; the Dublin Core; managing digital collections; MARC use; pathfinders; cartography and images; the CORC system and interface; Dewey Decimal Classification, Text Encoding Initiative, Encoded Archival Description and various other thesauri, classification and metadata schemes; uses of the CORC database in public services; government documents and serials; and the use of CORC outside North America. The CORC project is exploring the cooperative creation and sharing of metadata by libraries. Participants use prototype software to contribute to a new database of electronic resource descriptions. Automated tools speed subject assignment, provide authority control, extract descriptors and translate metadata from Dublin Core format to MARC and other formats. BCR/OCLC institutions participating in the CORC project are: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State Library, Colorado State University, Denver Public Library, University of Colorado at Denver, University of Iowa and University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library. Participating institutions agree to provide staff time to the project over the next 12-18 months. OCLC expects CORC to grow to more than 100 institutions by the end of 1999. More information on the CORC project, including how institutions can participate, is available on the OCLC web site: purl.oclc.org/corc/.