Idaho Commission for Libraries

The following cataloging services are available to libraries participating in LiLI Unlimited Resource Sharing:

CatExpress – A fast and easy copy cataloging solution designed for libraries that need a streamlined tool for obtaining MARC records and printing labels. Users access a database with records for more than 57 million materials for popular and hard-to-find items. The records can be downloaded to the local library’s catalog. It allows for basic editing of bibliographic records and printing spine and pocket labels for items in the collection.

Connexion – A more powerful cataloging tool used mostly by large libraries with staff trained to complete high levels of cataloging. Connexion allows libraries to copy catalog MARC records as well as create and submit their own original records to the OCLC/statewide database.

PromptCat – PromptCat provides cataloging records for new materials that can be ready to shelve when the library receives them. How does it work? A library orders materials and their MARC records from a participating vendor. The vendor supplies the materials and the records to the library. The vendor also alerts OCLC that the library now owns these items and then the OCLC WorldCat database is updated to reflect that. PromptCat users can even get customized spine and pocket labels for the materials ordered.

Z39.50 Cataloging – The OCLC Z39.50 cataloging service allows a library to search for and download bibliographic records through the library’s Z39.50-compliant local automated system.

Batchloading – Batchloading is the process by which a library can submit information about the items it owns to the OCLC/statewide database in a batch, versus one-by-one. A variety of batchloading methods are available, but all serve the purpose of allowing a library’s holdings to be accurately reflected in the statewide database.