Press release excerpted and forwarded from newjour-l.  -- Birdie

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE        FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
                             Jean Hirons, LC, 1-202-707-5947
                             Liz Bishoff, OCLC, 1-614-761-5173

                CHANGES MADE TO CONSER NEWSLETTER

DUBLIN, Ohio, Dec. 30, 1993--The Library of Congress and OCLC
announce  name, format, and distribution changes for the
newsletter, _CONSER_, which has provided news of the Cooperative
Online Serials program since 1976.

Effective January 1994, the new newsletter, _CONSERline_, will be
issued only in electronic format.  _CONSERline_ will be
transmitted semiannually, in January and June, with additional
issues released as needed to relay information of timely
interest.

Like its predecessor, _CONSERline_ will be a cooperative effort
of the CONSER program and will contain contributions from program
members as well as news of the CONSER program and related serials
cataloging issues.

There is no charge for _CONSERline_.  Subscriptions may be
obtained by sending an e-mail message--SUBSCRIBE CONSRLIN,
followed by your name--to:  listserv@sun7.loc.gov.  Back issues
of _CONSERline_ will be made available through LC Marvel, a
campus-wide information system of the Library of Congress, and
through the listserver.

Topics of interest or suggestions for _CONSERline_ may be
forwarded to the editors:  Jean Hirons, serial record division,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4160, or Liz
Bishoff, OCLC member services division, OCLC, 6565 Frantz Road,
Dublin, Ohio, 43017-3395.

CONSER, the Cooperative ONline SERials program, is a source of
authoritative bibliographic records and standardized
documentation for cataloging serials.  The 18 national and
full-member participants in the CONSER program authenticate
serials records in the CONSER database, which resides in the OCLC
Online Union Catalog.  CONSER records are now linked to the
journals cited in 10 reference databases available in The
FirstSearch Catalog and the EPIC service, which assists users in
determining whether the serial titles in which they find
citations are available in their local library or if they need to
place an interlibrary loan or document delivery request. (ND)