OCLC CJK USERS GROUP

OCLC-CJK Resources

1. For Connexion Client

a. Connexion client Macros 

• OCLC ScriptShifter for Chinese and Korean romanization (developed by Thomas P. Ventimiglia on  April 2026)  NEW!

• OCLC CJK Composer (developed by Thomas P. Ventimiglia on October 2025)  NEW!

• OCLC Pinyin Conversion

• OCLC Connexion client macrobook

b. Icons from toolbar editor

• MARC8 characters: 

     - Verify MARC8 (EditMARC-8CharactersVerify)

      - Convert to MARC8 (EditMARC-8CharactersConverttoMARC-8CJK) 

• Link (EditLinkingFieldsLinkFields) and unlink (EditLinkingFieldsUnlinkFields) parallel fields

• Show my institution record (CatalogingShowInstitutionRecords)

•  Insert from cited record (EditInsertfromCitedRecord)

•  Guided entry for adding 006 (EditGuidedEntryInsert006<Format>)

c. Text strings 

• 667 Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n

• 667 Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.

• 5880 [Source of description, e.g., Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar. 2020)]; title from title page.

• 5880 Online resource; title from PDF title page ([Platform], viewed [month date, year]).

• 5880 [Source of description, e.g., Vol. 1, No. 1 (Mar. 2020)]; title from PDF title page ([Platform], viewed [month date, year]).

• 500 Cover title.

• 504 Includes bibliographical references.

• 042 pcc

• 77608 $i Online version: $a $t $z $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC) [for monographic records]

• 77608 $i Online version:  $t $x $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC) [for serial records]

• 77608 $i Print version: $t $x $w (DLC) $w (OCoLC)

d. Default Function Keys

2. Other OCLC Information 

a. Reference tools for WorldCat

• Citations: EndNotes, Refworks, etc.

• WorldCat Collection-Level Settings in Query Collections

b. Error reporting to OCLC

• Duplicates and merging FAQ

• E-mail bibliographic requests to: bibchange@oclc.org

• E-mail authority requests to: authfile@oclc.org

3. Non-OCLC resources

a. Chinese

• Baidu

• CALIS

• National Library of China

• Chinese Name Authority Portal

• National Central Library (Republic of China (Taiwan))

• MarcEdit plug-in: AddPinyin (downloadable here)

• ALA-LC Chinese Romanization Table

b. Japanese

• CiNii Books

• National Diet Library

• Tokyo Metropolitan Libraries

• Waseda University Library

• Webcat Plus

• Web NDL Authorities

• ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table

c. Korean

• K-Romanizer 2  NEW!

• ISNI Korea NEW!

• 표준 국어 대사전 (P’yojun Kugŏ Taesajŏn)

• ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Korean Romanization and Word Division

d. General

• ScriptShifter: Non-Latin character transliteration tool  NEW!

• MarcEdit Plug-ins: OCLC Connexion Bib File Reader
  : calls the Connexion records for editing in MarcEdit and puts records back into the Connexion save file; downloadable in MarcEdit under the task, Plugin Manager

• MatchMarc: Google sheets extension (addon) for batch searching OCLC records by ISBN/ISSN and outputting the OCLC number and other bib info of your “best” record according to the preset criteria through API 

• Names and controll terms
  Library of Congress Names
  VIAF
  ISNI
  Wikidata
  ORCID
  Getty Union List of Names Online
  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
  Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
  GNS

• ALA-LC Romanization Tables

4. Archives

      a. Links

• Korean2Latin Korean Romanization macro (source codes)

• NACOCJK.mbk CJK NACO macro for Connexion 2.50 (Ryan Finnerty, Hideyuki Morimoto and Joel Hahn)

• Gary Strawn’s Authority Toolkit

b. OCLC CJK User Group Webinars

• Using Macros in Connexion for CJK Materials: Advanced Session [Erica Chang & Joel Hahn, Nov. 28, 2012]: slides Part 1 & Part 2 

• Using Macros in Connexion for CJK Materials: Basic Session [Hideyuki Morimoto & Charlene Chou, Oct. 31, 2012]: slides Part 2   

• Cataloging Chinese Materials  [Presented by Charlene Chou.]: slides 

• Searching LC/NACO Authority File in Connexion: slides and other related materials  

Note: drafted on 12/21/09; revised on 2/25/10; revised on 2/23/24; revised on 9/3/2026