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

From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez <alejandro.garza_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:39:46 -0600
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Also being a bit naive, but aren't there any legal issues around this?
_alejandro

Eric Lease Morgan said the following on 04/03/2010 06:45 p.m.:
> 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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