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

For tech. services librarians who want to learn more about or demystify OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), I found this article very helpful, by Terry Reese, the creator of MarcEdit:

	Library Resources & Technical Services
	April 2009, Vol. 53, no. 2, p.121-134
	"Automated Metadata Harvesting:  Low-Barrier MARC Record Generation from OAI-PMH Repository Stores Using MarcEdit"
	by Terry Reese

The article illustrates how easy it is to find and export MARC records individually or in batch representing digital collections and repositories.


John

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John Dillon
Assistant College Librarian
Library Systems and Technical Services
Geisel Library
Saint Anselm College
603.641.7349
jdillon at anselm dot edu


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of MJ Suhonos
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:01 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] OCLC and Michigan State at Impasse Over SkyRiver
> Cataloging, Resource Sharing Costs
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> Agreed -- [art of the approach I'm taking is to get our library's
> entire catalogue into Open Library so I (or anyone else) can convert it
> into MARCXML and drop it on an open OAI-PMH server somewhere.
> 
> Below is copied from a response I sent to the Open Library mailing list
> earlier today:
> 
> I wonder, for example, about libraries who deposit (or already have
> deposited) their MARC records into the Internet Archive (and thus made
> accessible to OL) -- couldn't they represent an aggregate hole in the
> bucket?  What recourse would OCLC take?
> 
> TPL, for example, is a net contributor of records to WorldCat due to
> the huge amount of original cataloguing we do, particularly for
> multilingual and non-English items, so OCLC would potentially be
> hurting themselves more than us if they decided to revoke TPL's
> license.  I would imagine if a few large libraries did similarly, we
> might see some momentum toward openness.
> 
> A follow-on thought: not that we should drag Z39.50 any further into
> the future than necessary, but I suspect that if OL had an open Z39.50
> interface that returned MARC (or at least MARCXML) records, libraries
> could relatively easily use it as a surrogate for WorldCat.  Just an
> idea.
> 
> MJ