At ALA OCLC was describing how they will start adding records to
Worldcat for Google and Google member library e-books from the Google
Book Search project. However they plan to add new separate bibs for
every instance, using "institutional records" where there are separate
instances of the same book for Michigan, Harvard, NYPL, etc. They will
automatically retain the OCLC# for the print copy. In fact they are
creating these new records from that print copy.
The proliferation of separate bibs in Worldcat for all these copies of
the same thing is probably going to be messy. I don't think that is
being done to help people searching for the title, it's to help
librarians know what's been digitized and who has the file, I think.
What we really want is an easy way to know that something is available
in print and electronic form and to easily be able to decide which form
is the right one for what we are doing at that moment, don't you think?
Isn't this like link resolver linking? Wouldn't it be better to keep
that information somewhere and use a link resolver to go find out which
electronic versions are available to me? Especially since we are
already finding that what is available to someone in one country may not
be available in another.
I'm not understanding why people think separate bib records are useful
for this. I can't help thinking that adding these things to
knowledgebases for link resolvers may provide a better end result for
users.
Frances McNamara
University of Chicago
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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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