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als, such as Chi nese-language books, or to clear up a back log. The
CatCD for Win dows soft ware of fers Win dows-based CD-ROM cat a-
loging in an offline, stand-alone en vironment and gives the sub scrib-
ing li brary ac cess to a sub set, CD-ROM only, of the OCLC On line
Un ion Cat a log. OCLC also of fers a Ret ro spec tive Con ver sion ser-
vice, which helps a li brary to con vert all of its re cords to full MARC
for mat. The OCLC CatExpress ser vice of fers Web-based copy cat a-
log ing for cus tom ers. OCLC dis continues services from time to time
and adds new ser vices, de pending on the de veloping li brary trends
and events. For the most current ser vices that OCLC of fers, check its
Web site <oclc.org/oclc/menu/col.htm>. Up-to-date hand books and
operation man uals of all kinds are avail able, and the OCLC re gional
brokers pro vide work shops and on-site train ing for mem bership li -
braries so that li brary tech nicians can keep abreast of ap propriate de -
velopments related to the system used in their li braries.
Figure 7.3 shows a MARC re cord as re trieved from the OCLC da -
tabase. From this re cord, one can copy the call num ber, the sub ject
headings, and other per tinent in formation from field 050, field 650,
and so on. If copy cat aloging on line, for a to tal match, en tering your
library’s code is the only re quirement. The code DLC in field 040
means that the source of this re cord is the Li brary of Con gress. The
LC clas si fi ca tion num ber des ig nated by the Li brary of Con gress is
put in the 050 field.
Figure 7.4 is an OCLC re cord con tributed by a member li brary. It
contains in formation such as call num ber, sub ject headings, added
entry, and the de scription of the material so that the li brary tech nician
can per form copy cat aloging quickly and easily. In this ex ample, the
MIA, MIA, and OCL in the 040 field show that this re cord is not
inputted by the Li brary of Con gress (DLC), but by a mem ber li brary
whose sym bol is MIA (Mi ami Uni versity, Ox ford, Ohio). The LC
classification that is as signed lo cally is put in the 090 field. More de -
tails about fields in the MARC re cord are dis cussed in Chap ter 8.
Other large na tional net works that are used the same way as de -
scribed in the OCLC sec tion are RLIN and A-G Canada. Lo cal and
regional net works are also avail able as sources for copy cat aloging,
although their da tabases usu ally are not as large.