Julia, yes, I am assuming that there should be full marc for those
libraries that want to load the bib records for items they do not
have. Having more of a "linking format" may be best for other
libraries, depending on the facilities in their ILS.
Also, it should eventually be possible to create sets of items on OL
-- based on subjects or authors or on individual selection. Ideally it
would be possible to export those sets with marc records for ingest
into ILSs. That way you could expand your collection in particular
directions that are of interest to your patrons.
Thanks for the feedback,
kc
Quoting Julia Bauder <julia.bauder_at_GMAIL.COM>:
> 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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> 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
>>
>
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