To install the new 4.2 Acquisition Station, users are required to first delete their existing Acquisition Station using the Add/Remove Programs in Windows. Existing projects will not be changed or deleted and will be available after installing the new 4.2 Acquisition Station. The 4.2 Acquisition Station is compatible with the 4.1 Server and vice versa. As a result, users can install the 4.2 Acquisition Station at any time.

For users of CONTENTdm OCR Extension, Version 4.2 includes an upgrade to ABBYY FineReader Version 8. Organizations with the OCR Extension will receive new OCR licenses for FineReader Version 8 in a separate e-mail message. To use the upgraded OCR license, installation of the 4.2 Acquisition Station is required.

Help files are available throughout CONTENTdm 4.2 to assist users. The files may also be viewed online in the User Support Center or accessed directly at www.contentdm.com/help4/.

For assistance with the upgrade installation, contact CONTENTdm support at support@dimema.com or (877) 797-0887.

The updated Bib Formats is now available from OCLC's Web site: www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm. The updates include the following information from recent technical bulletins:

• TB 240: Pinyin Conversion Project
• TB 241: National Library Control Number Changes
• TB 242: OCLC Symbol Expansion
• TB 244: OCLC MARC Format Update 2001
• TB 246: Database Enrichment
• TB 247: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2002
• TB 249: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2003
• TB 250: Parallel Records
• TB 251: Connexion WorldCat Searching
• TB 252: OCLC-MARC Format Update 2006
• TB 253: ISBN and OCLC Number Changes

In addition to the material from technical bulletins, the first five chapters of Bibliographic Formats and Standards have also been completely updated and revised. (The first five chapters are also available in Spanish at www.oclc.org/bibformats/es/default.shtm).

On a related note, the revision of the manual, OCLC-MARC Records, is underway. An updated OCLC-MARC Records will be available in the near future.

The revision of Bibliographic Formats and Standards is ongoing, and the print edition is scheduled for the third quarter of 2007. Print copies of Bib Formats will be available for $40, plus shipping and handling.

"This new Spanish-language translation of Bibliographic Formats and Standards will be a tremendous resource for catalogers in Latin America, in Spanish-speaking countries, and for catalogers in the United States whose primary language is Spanish," according to OCLC's Antonio Alba, Regional Manager for the Caribbean and Central America, OCLC Latin America and The Caribbean Division.

Based on Maclean's magazine's 2006 rankings, the new groups include:

• Best Canadian Medical Programs, Doctoral – an aggregate of the top 15 medical schools’ collections
• Best Canadian Universities, Comprehensive – an aggregate of the holdings of the 10 best comprehensive (i.e. undergraduate and graduate) collections
• Best Canadian Universities, Undergraduate – an aggregate of the holdings of the 15 best undergraduate collections

WorldCat Collection Analysis will continue to add Predefined Peer Groups to better enable subscribers to assess their collection and collection development policies. For a complete list, visit OCLC's Collection Analysis Web pages.

The following Eureka databases will transfer to FirstSearch by June 2007:

• Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute
• Anthropological Literature*
• Anthropology Plus*
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Bibliography of the History of Art
• Chicano Database*
• FRANCIS (international humanities and social sciences)
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine*
• Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals*
• Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies (social sciences)

In addition, OCLC plans to transfer two other databases, Hand Press Book and SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs, to the Connexion service sometime in mid-2007.

For subscription and pricing information for the OCLC FirstSearch service, please contact BCR's Karen Graham.

* Note: Databases marked with an asterisk are accessed exclusively through the OCLC FirstSearch service.

At present, Selection works only with vendor notification items. An anticipated future enhancement will allow a library to import data from WorldCat Collection Analysis and distribute the WorldCat records to selectors based on their subject area.

Current materials vendor partners are Aux Amateurs de Livres International, Casalini Libri and Harrassowitz, with more expected in the future.

Details are available on the OCLC WorldCat Selection Web pages. For more information or for answers to questions, please contact Linda Gonzalez at BCR.

Special information session scheduled — If you are attending the American Library Association meeting in Seattle, Washington, USA, please join OCLC staff on Saturday, January 20, 2007, to learn more about WorldCat Selection at the "Partnering with OCLC for Selection and Cataloging" session. Visit www.oclc.org/info/ala/ to register.

A complete feature list will be available on the User Support Center Web page when the software is released. Some enhancements in the new version are detailed below:

• Compound objects queued in the Multiple Compound Object Add List are now persistent allowing users to close the Multiple Compound Object Wizard without losing items waiting for upload. Additionally, new error recovery features in the Multiple Compound Object Wizard will let users complete a compound object build if an error interrupts the process.
• For users working with the OCR Extension, CONTENTdm 4.2 has upgraded OCR capabilities. These include an upgrade to ABBYY FineReader Version 8, support for 36 languages and dialects, warnings when images exceed standard A4 paper size and the ability to OCR items that have previously been added to CONTENTdm collections.
• For users who have collections with searchable date data type fields, a date range search is available from the Advanced Search page.
• An option to configure search parameters for automatic hyperlinks in metadata is now available. Search parameters can be set to search all collections or only the current collection as well as all fields or only the current field. Additionally, a new configuration option allows you to display or suppress zoom and pan functionality by image file type.
• Changes in the Compound Object viewer provide additional options for viewing documents. These include an option to toggle the left-hand navigation menu on and off when viewing items, a new location for the navigational thumbnail image in order to provide a larger viewing area and a static zoom and pan toolbar which stays put when scrolling large images. Additionally, the new viewer includes the ability to highlight and view individual articles within newspapers that have been specially processed to include article segmentation data.

Visit CONTENTdm at OCLC for more information.

Some of the new features include the ability to:

• Extract metadata for MP3 files
• Search the authority history database
• Use guided entry for fields 541 and 583
• Search and automatically convert an invalid Chinese, Japanese or Korean (CJK) character to a valid MARC-8 character
• Transliterate Persian script
• Plus a lot more!

For more information and to download the software, visit the OCLC Connexion client recent enhancements Web page.

WorldCat Collection Analysis will continue adding Authoritative Lists to the service to better enable subscribers to assess their collection and collection development policies.

To add an Authoritative List, log-in to the Administration Module of WorldCat Collection Analysis:

• Click on the Collection Analysis tab
• Click on the Authoritative Lists sidebar tab
• Select an Authoritative List
• Click the Add button
• Click the Save Changes button

The program starts off with a day-long session during the 2007 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, followed by six months of online interaction, and finishs at the 2007 Annual Conference in Washington, D. C.

As part of the program, Heather will receive two days of training with Maureen Sullivan, organization consultant, and Connie Paul, executive director of the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative; participation in a problem-solving workgroup; networking with 100 peers; an inside look into ALA structure and an opportunity to serve the profession in a leadership capacity.

For example, an Ohio library would appear as US, OH and an Ontario library would appear as CA,ON. Libraries from the rest of the world will display ISO country codes only for the location of the library. This is an improvement, as previously the code provided was for broad and general regions and included codes like EU and ZZ, grouping a large numbers of countries together.

Future planned improvements will have the country codes spelled out into the language of that interface. These improvements will be announced before the enhancement is installed.

• HAPLR Public Library Rankings — a list of the best Public Libraries broken down by the population size they serve (i.e. 100-250K)
• Top U.S. Nursing Programs — a list of the best collections in Nursing subdivided by specialty (i.e. Mental Health Nursing)
• Google 9 — the nine institutions currently participating in the Google Book Project

WorldCat Collection Analysis will continue to add Predefined Peer Groups to better enable subscribers to assess their collection and collection development policies.

For the complete press release from LC about this Working Group please go to www.loc.gov:8081/today/pr/2006/06-222.html.

When the videorecording or sound recording record has only the symbol TEFMT in field 040, the data have been entered by Midwest Tapes, working from extremely preliminary information. When a subfield $d containing either RCS or TEF has been added to field 040, it indicates that OCLC TechPro staff have upgraded the record with additional information supplied by Midwest Tapes.

OCLC strongly suggests that users not take the data in these records at face value and to err on the side of upgrading the records when you have the resource in hand. This is precisely why they are input at Encoding Level K, so that most users can lock, upgrade and replace them with the correct, published information. OCLC asks that when you have such an item in hand that you take the opportunity to upgrade the record, change the Encoding Level to I and receive Minimal-Level Upgrade credit. The increased Encoding Level will also be an indication to other users of WorldCat that the data in the record reflect the published resource rather than the faulty and incomplete prepublication data.

Among the new subject headings on the list:

• American fiction--Mexican American authors
• Ethics in motion pictures
• Fortification--Indiana
• Grabens (Geology)--Idaho
• Henry Hagg Lake (Or.)
• Hip-hop in motion pictures
• Horne, Audrey (Fictitious character)
• Lift-the-flap books
• Lil' Bratz (Fictitious characters)
• Motorcycling--Philosophy
• Only (The English word)
• Pop-up books
• Spiritual intelligence
• Split-page books
• Teen films
• Very low-calorie diet
• Watson, Jesse (Fictitious character)
• William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge (Or.)