ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries College & Research Libraries No. 5, May 1973 ACRL News Issue (A) of C n olleg e e & w Resea s rch Libraries, Vol. 34, No. 3 Ivy Libraries to Use OCLC The rapid nationwide expansion of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) on-line cata­ loging system has reached two of the largest re­ search libraries in the country. Cornell and Yale Universities will be making use of OCLC with­ in the next few months. At Cornell, planning has been underway for over a year. There has been a major retraining of technical services staff, and the library has committed itself to a small staff reduction to help pay for equipment costs. Cornell hopes to be on line by July 1 of this year. The library will be participating through the Five Associat­ ed University Libraries (FAUL) agency. Yale is also joining the OCLC system via a regional agency, in this case the New England Library Information Network (NELINET). Yale will begin using the system this spring, according to David Weisbrod, head of the library’s De­ velopment Department. The Yale and Cornell operations come after the success of the system at Dartmouth Col­ lege, the demonstration library for NELINET in testing the transferability of OCLC. Dart­ mouth recently reported that as a result of OCLC it could reduce its cataloging staff by seven full-time and three FTE part-time posi­ tions. At the same time, it projected a savings of over $16,000 a year in equipment rental charges alone. It is becoming apparent that OCLC is hav­ ing a major impact on the organization of aca­ demic libraries, with an ever-growing shift of technical services staff into other service areas. In other OCLC news the center’s successes in putting the computer to work for libraries not only in Ohio but in other sections of the country have earned it a new Council on Library Resources, Inc., grant of $194,000. In making the announcement. Council Presi­ dent Fred C, Cole noted that OCLC’s on-line union catalog and shared cataloging subsystem have been operational since August 1971 and that it is well along in its developmental work toward implementing two of its other five sub­ systems planned. This is the council’s third grant to OCLC since 1970. A related grant went to the New England Library Information Network (NELINET) a year ago to test the transfer­ ability of the OCLC computer-based biblio­ graphic system to other groups of libraries. At the conclusion of each of these grant periods, achievements have warranted further develop­ ment. Operational costs are borne by the par­ ticipating libraries. Experimental use of the OCLC system in other parts of the country—Five Associated Li­ braries in New York (FAUL), the Cooperative College Library Center in Atlanta, the Pitts­ burgh Regional Library Center (PRLC), and C ollege & Research Libraries is published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 17 times yearly— 6 bimonthly journal issues and II monthly, combining July- August, News issues at 1201-05 Bluff St., Fulton, Mo. 65251. Subscription, $15.00 a year or, to members of the division, $5.00, included in dues. Circulation and advertising office: American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, Il l. 60611. Second-class postage paid at Fulton, Missouri 65251. News editor: Allan Dyson, M offitt Undergraduate Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. Associate News editor: Susana Hinojosa, Assistant Librarian, Reference Department, Moffitt Undergraduate Library. Editor: Richard M. Dougherty, University Library, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720. President, ACRL: Russell Shank. Executive Secretary, ACRL: Beverly Lynch, ALA. 102 the Union Library Catalog of Pennsylvania (U L C )—are being watched with interest to see whether they can produce similar results. OCLC’s operational on-line union catalog is expected to include a million cataloging entries by this summer. The operational shared cata­ loging system makes it unnecessary for more than one participating library to do original cataloging—and if the record is available in MARC II from the Library of Congress, it’s un­ necessary for any OCLC library to do the origi­ nal cataloging. Of the five OCLC subsystems not presently operational, serials control and the acquisitions module of the technical processing system are scheduled for activation later this year. 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