Do the Michigan OAI records still have an OCLCnum in them, or has that been removed too?
If they have an OCLC number, then an OCLC cataloging member could easily use the WorldCat API to automatically fetch the actual full straight-from-OCLC record for the item in question.
If they do not.... well, limiting access to good metadata hurts all of our work.
Interestingly, if the records have an internal U of M accession number but not an OCLCnumber, you could possibly use Bill Dueber's excellent API to Merlyn (the U of M catalog) to first fetch an OCLCnum (if available) for a given U of M bib id, then use WorldCat to fetch the full record. A kind of crazy process to compensate for OCLC-enforced access restrictions, but, we take what we can.
Jonathan
>>> Frances Dean McNamara <fdmcnama_at_UCHICAGO.EDU> 11/13/08 11:07 AM >>>
Yes. Michigan made available an OAI feed of MARC records for out of copyright materials. The MARC records are dummed down, so authors lack birth and death dates, subject headings lack subdivisions, corporate headings only have subfield a ...
Options are described at:
http://www.hathitrust.org/bibliographic_data_distribution
MARC Edit has an OAI harvester that will pick them up. You can load to your catalog, or you might want to use MARC Edit to edit them and then load.
Frances McNamara
University of Chicago
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] Google Books question
I saw this question on another list. Does anyone on NGC4LIB have any helpful info?
"Some of our users think that they've seen where some libraries/consortia have loaded records for Google Books that they don't actually own, e.g., the Michigan records... either that or they've heard from someone who's heard from someone that this has been done. All the examples we've been pointed to turn out to be cases where the links to Google are on records for owned print versions. Have any of you acquired and loaded non-owned records for any of freely-available digitized books - Google or otherwise? If so, how did you go about getting the records. If not, do you know anyone who has?"
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN
Received on Thu Nov 13 2008 - 13:29:18 EST