That's awesome, and is NOT at all common.
In my own efforts, a combination of the library standards in play (40%,
I'd guess, of my barriers; Z39.71--SO not sufficient for this), our
particular ILS software (let's say 40%; it doesn't implement
MARC-holdings, and serial control in general in a way not suitable for
this), and local implementation choices (we choose for other good
reasons not to use what serial control our ILS _does_ offer that might
help here) and cataloging practices (maybe 20%)---makes it, if not
entirely impossible, than very very difficult for me to implement
something like this. A link resolver which can say with confidence if a
given serial citation is held physically, and identify the right 'copy'
record for that holding.
Jonathan
Karen Coyle wrote:
> Ross, U of Cal did this in their own link resolver years ago. It drives
> patron-initiated ILL. Sheesh, I remember de-bugging the code!
>
> kc
>
> Ross Singer wrote:
>> On 9/11/07, kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>
>>> but I'm sure that I've been around link resolvers that are at least
>>> 5 years
>>> old that would take data from an article in an A&I database (even
>>> before
>>> the OpenURL), look up the ISSN in the catalog using Z39.50, and
>>> parse out
>>> holdings to let you know if, more or less, your library holds that
>>> in hard
>>> copy.
>>>
>> Karen, if you can provide /any/ evidence of the reality of this
>> (outside of one-off local projects like David Walker's at CSU-San
>> Marcos), I will be shocked.
>>
>> -Ross.
>>
>>
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Received on Wed Sep 12 2007 - 10:19:12 EDT