Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> 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
Couple of things:
1. this assumes you only want to add the records for books you own. But
since all of these are available as full text online, they could be
treated like other online resources and not be tied to library holdings.
2. These are the public domain books. Most of them are old. I suspect
that the overlap with even a good-sized library catalog would be
minimal. (remember the stats oclc came up with relating to the original
"google-5'? the overlap wasn't as large as one might have expected, and
that included their entire catalogs.)
kc
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> Eric "I Can Write That Script In 150 Lines" Morgan
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