It remains a question I have why anyone need's OCLC's permission to
share records that were created by OCLC member libraries, who own the
copyright for them, not OCLC---if there is any copyright that can be
held on a cataloging record in the first place (if it is mainly 'factual
content' there may not be).
If it is because of license/contract we sign with OCLC when we become
members--I think the members should pressure OCLC to change this, I do
not think it serves us well, and OCLC's ultimate mission and purpose is
to serve us.
Jonathan
Willett, Perry wrote:
> Part of the deal we worked out with OCLC involved releasing truncated
> records. Some fields and delimiters are not included in the set of MARC
> records for MBooks available through our OAI data provider.
>
> Perry Willett
> University of Michigan
>
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>
>> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:02:29 -0400
>> From: fdmcnama_at_UCHICAGO.EDU
>> Subject: Re: OCLC to share bib records with Google
>>
>> This is very nice and we used these. However, they are dumbed down
>> MARC records. Author names lack dates, for instance. Corporate
>> names may be cut down so you only "United States" Same for subject
>> headings. Makes for some interesting issues. It is my understanding
>> that these are dumbed down in order not to violate OCLC restrictions
>> about passing on OCLC records. Perhaps I'm wrong about that?
>>
>> Frances McNamara
>> University of Chicago
>>
>
>
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Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Sat May 24 2008 - 22:13:10 EDT