B.G. Sloan writes
> OCLC and Michigan State at Impasse Over SkyRiver Cataloging,
> Resource Sharing Costs.
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6720609.html
I understand this probably incredibly naive, but why don't libraries
just dump their records on MARCXML on OAI-PMH servers? Surely, this
is a once and for all cost to develop the gateway and a small price
to pay for the server? It could by paid for by dropping a single
journal subscription...
As for me, on the weekend, I colleced 2,5 million records from the
FAO's Agris database to make them available on my 3lib collection
site at http://3lib.org. They will be processed into AuthorClaim in
due course. Hey, if an organization as reputedly dysfunctional as
the U.N. can do it ;-), surely any university library can make
bibliographic data available.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
skype: thomaskrichel
Received on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 19:14:18 EST