--Connections
--Version 2007-05-21
--Comments to ahm@reed.edu

Installation:
1)Place all files in the "Put in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/SearchGroupServers" folder in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/SearchGroupServers

Usage:
--Inside BibDesk, select Database->New Search Group, click on Z39.50, then select which server you'd like to search. Options are:

OCLC WorldCat - "OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide."
OCLC ECO - "An OCLC collection of scholarly journals."
OCLC ArticleFirst - "OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals."
Orbis Cascade Summit - "A library catalog that combines information from Pacific Northwest academic libraries into a single unified database."
Reed College - Reed College catalog.

Other options are already built-in; most notable is the Library of Congress.

See the BibDesk help on searching (click the purple ? in the search bar after selecting a database) for search syntax.