My fairly small library would greatly appreciate full MARC records. If
we have a physical copy of the item, a link to an online scan is nice
(and we're using the Google Book Search API and Godmar Back's code to
provide that already), but it's not really expanding access for our
patrons. If we could get full MARC records for a corpus of books with
an open digital version, however, that's getting our patrons to books
that they might otherwise 1) never find out about (less likely) or 2)
never bother to interlibrary loan (more likely).
So if you produce them, odds are we will load them.
Julia
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Julia Bauder
Data Services Librarian
Grinnell College Libraries
1111 Sixth Ave.
Grinnell, IA 50112
641-269-4431
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> I've talked to the OL folks about exporting a set of MARC records for all
> the items that have an open digital version. (Exporting OL records for the
> set is relatively simple.) The difficulty is making sure there is a good
> MARC record for each of them. It should be relatively easy for any records
> with an LCCN, or perhaps an ISBN, but more difficult for others.
>
> If you've got the item, do you really need a full MARC record with it? What
> would work for folks who want to link from OL digital works to their own
> catalog records? An index of OL IDs and LCCN's/ISBNs/OCLC#s, linked to the
> Archive ID for the digital work?
>
> I'd love to have a definitive idea of what would be useful.
>
> kc
>
Received on Thu Jul 01 2010 - 17:07:24 EDT