That sounds nice but what is so brave with hiding a unique
edition? Of course we must have two records or more for
the OA-editions! How are Michigan going to separate the
two editions? Will the free e-version be possible to search
for in the Michigan catalog? Probably not. That's the way
to keep the dying cellulose books kicking
Jan
Karen Coyle wrote:
> Jan Szczepanski wrote:
>>
>> I'm somewhat surprised that the libraries working with Google
>> don't have made marc-records for these electronic editions but
>> I think they have not yet received their own e-copy.
>
> There's work being done to add the records to library catalogs as well
> as to add them to worldCat. There are issues, of course, not the least
> of which is that the cataloging rules require that the digitized copy be
> given a separate record -- resulting in adding duplicate records into
> the library catalog for every digitized book. Michigan has bravely
> ignored this rule, and is adding the link to the digitized book onto the
> record for the hard copy.
>
> kc
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Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 08:33:57 EDT