OCLC: using the xpo command
Exporting records from OCLC Passport. (The XPO command)
(If you don't use OCLC Passport, skip to this section)
ASSUMPTIONS:
1. Start OCLC Passport (via the NT Start button or from the NT desktop).
When the Passport software has loaded, start OPEN SESSION and select and
connect Prismcat. (Note that no linking is involved, so IBM3163 is not used.)
As with RLIN for Windows, you don't need to start CLARR and connect to OrbEdit
before you can pass or export records from OCLC. You only need to connect
CLARR to OrbEdit when you are ready to overlay the records you have exported
from the utility.
2. Search the OLUC for your record. Display the record you want to
export.
3. At the command line, type xpo and press the F11 function
key.
4. Wait till the computer displays the message that the record was exported
in USMARC. Once the message has displayed, you can search the next title,
and so on. You should do no editing of the records on OCLC; do all your
editing in Orbis after you have succesfully overlaid the record with
CLARR. Export as many records as you feel you can work with comfortably
and accurately.
5. TIP: If you have been searching/exporting on OCLC and now need to do
overlay/editing work in OrbEdit, you can (and should) temporarily
disconnect from OCLC by clicking on the DISCONNECT icon on the toolbar
(the icon of a plug being pulled from a socket). When you need to reconnect,
click on the CONNECT icon on the toolbar which is to the immediate left of
the DISCONNECT icon and the macro will get you back into the OCLC in
seconds.
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