About Connexion client
Find an overview of Connexion client functionality.
Connexion client documentation.
Note: If you are using a version of Connexion client older than 3.0, seeOverview
OCLC Connexion is your cataloging access to the OCLC system. Connexion client is a Microsoft Windows-based software 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 theConnexion client cataloging functionality
Catalogers can use the following functions in the client only:
- 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 Or
- 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
- Upload digital files to a CONTENTdm collection and automatically add field 856 to the WorldCat record that contains the URL to open the digital content (for authorized CONTENTdm users with correct setup only)
- 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