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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>Some of you have noted that the zillions of non-English catalog records that have been loaded into WorldCat from national libraries can be a real pain when searching for copy for rare books, so I thought these future enhancements would be of interest:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B>Language of Cataloging Limiter in Search WorldCat dialog<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Users can limit WorldCat searches by language of cataloging by selecting a language from a dropdown in the Search WorldCat dialog. The limiter can be checked or un-checked as needed. It is retained until changed.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>The language of cataloging limiter applies to the Command Line and Keyword/Numeric areas of the Search WorldCat dialog and the quick tool search on the toolbar.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></UL><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'><B>Language of Cataloging display in search results<BR>
</B></SPAN></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>A CatL column is added to the Column Settings list in the local bibliographic save file search results.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>The language of cataloging displays in local file and WorldCat truncated lists by default.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>The language code displayed is based on data in the 040 $b of the record. If no 040 $b exists, the cell is blank.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>The full list of planned future enhancements (release dates not yet determined) is here:</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/future.htm">http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/enhancements/future.htm</a>><BR>
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</B>--Jackie<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">-- <BR>
Jackie Dooley<BR>
Program Officer<BR>
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership<BR>
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949.492.5060 (work/home) -- Pacific Time<BR>
949.295.1529 (mobile)<BR>
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