On May 28, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Willett, Perry wrote:
> ...and that while the
> records we currently share are certainly not optimal, libraries are at
> least able to use them to link to records already in their local
> catalogs, ie do something useful with them.
Perry outlines something I advocate too. While the records are not
robust, a library could:
1. Download the MBooks metadata
2. Loop through each record extracting a key, say an OCLC number
3. Look-up the key in your local catalog (via Z39.50)
4. If found, then download the local catalog record, update it
with the 856 field of MBook record, and restore it.
5. Go to Step #2 until done.
6. Repeat on a regular basis
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Eric "I Can Write That Script In 150 Lines" Morgan
Received on Wed May 28 2008 - 07:42:13 EDT