Re: OCLC and Michigan State at Impasse Over SkyRiver Cataloging, Resource Sharing Costs

From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:45:38 -0500
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Thu Mar 04 2010 - 19:46:05 EST