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

• 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. 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 with short-cut key

• 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!

• 국립 국어 연구원 (Kungnip Kugo Yŏn’guwŏn), 표준 국어 대사전 (P’yojun Kugŏ Taesajŏn) (to see standard pronunciation for Romanizing Korean language) 

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

d. General

• 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: A 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 

• 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. OCLC CJK User Group Webinars

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

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

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

d. 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 8/24/2026