INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACCESSING THE OCLC CONNEXION CLIENT TUTORIAL: OVERVIEW AND SEARCHING WORLDCAT SECTIONS

The first OCLC Connexion Client training session will include an overview, initial client setup, searching and moving around the bibliographic file, and updating and exporting bibliographic records. All attendees should have gone through the first two sections of the online tutorial provided by OCLC before attending the training session. Instructions for accessing the tutorial follow. You don’t have to do this all in one sitting. You can always exit the tutorial and come back and finish it at a later time, at your own pace. Once you’ve attended the training session, you will receive instructions for downloading the Connexion client and doing initial setup on your machine.

1. Open up a browser session using Internet Explorer (the tutorial will not work with Netscape). You may have an icon for IE on your desktop or you may have to access it via Start/Programs. If you experience a slow response time as you move through the tutorial, you may want to close any unnecessary applications you have open.

2. Go to: http://www.oclc.org/support/training/connexion/client/tutorial/default.htm and you’ll see the various sections of the Connexion client tutorial. Before attending the first training session, you should view the first two sections, Overview and Searching WorldCat.

3. To view the Overview, click on its View the tutorial link. You need to have pop-up blockers disabled to view the tutorials. If your browser settings are correct, the tutorial will start. If you get a message that a pop-up is blocked, click where instructed to do so and select the option “Always allow pop-ups from this site.” Select Yes when prompted “Would you like to allow pop-ups from www5.oclc.org?” This will ensure that you’ll be able to use the tutorials in future without any problems. The navigation buttons for moving through the tutorial (to the Contents Page, Previous Page, Next Page and to Exit) are in the upper right corner of the screen. Click the Next Page button (arrow pointing right) to move to the next page and follow the instructions (usually in dark red) for moving to the next section as you go. If a particular screen has no explicit instructions for continuing, just click that Next Page button when you’re ready to move on.

4. When you’ve completed the Overview, select the X to exit and use the Back button to get back to the page where you can select the second section of the tutorial, Seaching WorldCat. Or come back to that page at another time. You can always exit the tutorials at any time and return later.