Julia,
OCLC creates the MARC records for Google and syncs with both Google and
Hathi Trust. New records are added every day to WorldCat from both
repositories. Currently there are over 4.5 million e-book MARC records
in WorldCat.
Regards,
Matt Goldner
Matthew R. Goldner
Product & Technology Advocate
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
614.764.6405
goldnerm_at_oclc.org
http://www.oclc.org http://worldcat.org
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 5:06 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Book-scanning projects - a question
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 Tue Jul 06 2010 - 10:46:50 EDT