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WorldCat (through FirstSearch)

Watch Wordcat Grow - This is fun!

Bibliographic Formats and Standards
Bits and Pieces  - Best place to read about technical enhancements. See section on Collections &Technical Services
Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding 
Guidelines - Revised 12/1/02. Potentially very useful because it lists libraries in alphabetical order with their OCLC symbol attached, & also incorporates changes from the AACR2 Amendments 2001, particularly the revised & renamed Chapter 9
Cataloging Internet Resources: 2nd. ed.  - By Nancy B. Olson. 
CATME for Windows Documentation
CONNEXION Documentation
CONNEXION Entry Method of Diacritics
CONNEXION Enhancements as of 5/18/03
CONNEXION Requirements, Access, Interface Map
CONNEXION - Set Options and Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
Concise Input Standards, 3rd. ed.
Entering Equivalents for OCLC Characters
Fixed Field Elements and 006
Incorrect Filing Indicator Report
MARC21 Documentation
NetLibrary
OCLC Authorities Users Guide (2. ed)
OCLC Bibliographic PURL Service
OCLC Collections and Technical Services FAQs
OCLC CONNEXION
OCLC Input Standards Table
OCLC Macros (CatME and Passport)
OCLC-MARC Code Lists  - Includes Country of Publication, Geographic Area, Language, Relator, Source, & Description Conventions
OCLC MARC Records (Rev. 1) - Strange PDF version in extremely small print contains changes documented in TB 244 and MARC 21. A related version has a color cover!
OCLC Newsletters
OCLC Participating Institutions Search
OCLC Passport for Windows 1.11 (7/7/03)
OCLC PCC Purl Service Mailing List
OCLC PromptCat Workflow Comparison Chart
OCLC Support FAQ
OCLC Symbol Expansion
OCLC Technical Bulletins
Passport, CatME, Connexion Comparison

Passport for Windows Mailing List Archive
Passport Macros
PURL Page
Technical Bulletin 246: Database Enrichment
WorldCat Principles of Cooperation
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