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OCLC in Retrospect: A Review of the Impact of the OCLC System on the Administration of a Large University Technical Services Operations. Occasional Papers No. 123.

Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1976

Temple University began use of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) system in January 1972. Implementation involved the development of detailed processing operation procedures. A comparison of manual and automated procedures at Temple illustrated the difficulties of changing from one system to the other and of the automated system itself.…

Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Networks

IUC/OCLC Network Evaluation. Final Report.

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Westat Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1975

The operation of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) on-line bibliographic system in Texas and New Mexico Libraries was evaluated. The economic aspects of automated cataloging and card production were compared with previous methods; the effectiveness of the system as a tool for pre-order searching was evaluated; and the impact of the system's…

Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Databases