About Connexion client

Overview

OCLC Connexion is your cataloging access to the OCLC system. Connexion is a Microsoft Windows-based software client. To get started with using Connexion, see Install Connexion client.

 Note: OCLC occasionally conducts maintenance on the system, most usually on Sundays from 2 am to 6 am U.S. Eastern Time. OCLC usually provides advance notice about these maintenance periods via listserv messages and the OCLC System Status Dashboard.

Connexion client cataloging functionality

Catalogers can use the following functions:

• Catalog offline and online
• Use local save files (located on your workstation or shared drive) as well as your library’s online save file
• Create local constant data records, as well as online constant data, to insert often used MARC-formatted content
• Validate records offline
• Batch process WorldCat and LC authority file searches
• Batch process OCLC actions on records, including exports and label printing
• Batch process setting or deleting holdings by OCLC number without first downloading the records
• Create text strings to insert frequently used data
• Write macros using client-specific commands to automate frequent tasks
• Use a macro recorder to create macros automatically
• Use the client’s built-in label printing capability
• Print local accessions lists
• Create multiple user profiles (sets of client options) to catalog for more than one library
• Check spelling in records
• Choose a language for the client interface in addition to English: select Chinese (simplified or traditional), English, German, Japanese, Korean, or Spanish
• Starting with version 2.63, Connexion client supports scripts through Unicode version 8.0.0.
• Automatically transliterate romanized data in Arabic and Persian records to Arabic script data (two ways)
• Validate MARC-8 characters separately from record validation
• Convert invalid CJK characters to MARC-8 automatically
• Customize WorldCat search and browse index lists
• Define a startup action or macro to run each time you open the client
• Use quick tools for entering command line WorldCat searches and for using and managing text strings and user tools
• Drag and drop to reposition toolbars or to reposition buttons on the main client toolbar
• Set up a Z39.50 access to your library's integrated local system (ILS) to retrieve local bibliographic records
• As an alternative to the client function for inserting diacritics and special characters, use an RLIN21 Latin keyboard
• As an alternative to using Windows keyboards or IMEs for entering Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Latin scripts, install and use RLIN21 keyboards for these scripts
• Add variant name headings using MARC-8 non-Latin character sets to LC authority file records