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• Resource Sharing
• November 2006
• Issue: 207

WorldCat Resource Sharing Enhancements

On Sunday, October 1, OCLC installed the following enhancements to WorldCat Resource Sharing:

Special message will appear on printed requests in WorldCat Resource Sharing - Under the due date in the upper right side of printed requests, a new field titled SPCL MES will appear. This will help libraries that print out requests by providing more complete information on their printouts. The message will read:

The user will now see a new field on the printed output that displays the appropriate special message.

They appear as follows:

** SPCL MES: Lender: COMPLETE?
** SPCL MES: Borrower: RECEIVED?
** SPCL MES: Borrower LOST?
** SPCL MES: Lender LOST?
** SPCL MES: Not Rec'd?
** SPCL MES: Overdue?

Direct Request Formats will match formats available in Deflection Policies - The list of formats on which direct requests can be profiled will be expanded to include all the formats that are available in the Policies Directory for deflection. This list will now include the following formats:

Archival/Mixed Material
Book
Computer File
E-Serial
E-Text
Government Document
Integrated Resource
Internet Resource
Kit
Manuscript
Map
Microform
Musical Score
Newspaper
Serial
Sound Recording
Sound Recording - Cassette
Sound Recording - CD
Sound Recording - LP
Visual Material
Visual Material - DVD
Visual Material - VHS

For additional information about these enhancements, please contact Jon Penn at Nylink.