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March 16, 2007

Changes Made to OCLC FirstSearch, WorldCat Resource Sharing

OCLC implemented the following enhancements and fixes to FirstSearch and WorldCat Resource Sharing on March 11.

WorldCat Resource Sharing: Enhancements
  • Electronic delivery addresses added to one- and two-per-page printing — Users are now able to see electronic delivery addresses on the one- and two-per-page print views. Fields are limited to a total length of 101 characters for 2-per-page output and 92 characters for 1-per-page output (including the label views).
  • Addition of LHR Summary field on one- and two-per-page printing — Users are now able to view local holdings data (volume, year, etc.) on the one- and two-per-page printouts.
  • Sample Card
WorldCat Resource Sharing: Fixes
  • ISBN display in the one- and two-per page printing — Field length of the ISBN field has expanded to guarantee the proper display of the 13 digit ISBNs.
  • Locations field added back to the two-per-page printing — The "Locations," field, which lists alternate lenders not in the lendings string, will once again be included in the two-per-page print view.

General Note about Printing in WorldCat Resource Sharing
In order to accommodate all required fields for printing, OCLC needed to decrease the font size from 9 points to 8.45 points. OCLC apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused and hopes to offer a printing schema in the near future that will allow libraries to customize the fields required for their local needs.

WorldCat Services Adminstrative Module: Fix
Previously, if a user defined only one Electronic Delivery Address in his/her Constant Data Options, the delivery method did not display in the Staff View Workform. The Staff View Workform would display only Electronic Delivery Addresses from Constant Data records when multiple delivery addresses were present. This error has now been fixed.


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