On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Thomas Krichel wrote:
>> 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...
Frankly, I don't understand why us librarians don't do this either. I think there is some sort of fear of retaliation from OCLC.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 19:46:05 EST