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E-books at CUNY
LACUNY Cataloguing
Roundtable
November 5, 2009
Overview
Questions to ask before buying
 Vendor issues
 Reviewing records
 MarcEdit demonstration
 Submitting a load request
 Removing records from the system
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Questions to ask before buying
Is this a subscription or purchase?
 Will the vendor provide valid MARC
records?
 Do the records contain unique ID
numbers, preferably in the 035 field?
 What is the total size of the record load?
 Will there be future updates or deletions?
 Is the vendor website OpenURL
compliant?
 Do I want these records added to OCLC?
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Cataloguing overview: vendors
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Provider neutral records for e-books
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Vendor neutral records to appear in OCLC
Add URL’s and vendor information locally
Check the wiki for known problems with
vendor-supplied records
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http://cunycataloging.pbworks.com/EbookCataloging-Known-%22Problems%22
Cataloguing overview: LDR/06
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Position 6 = File type
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“a” = language materials
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“m”= electronic resources
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Nonmanuscript language material, microforms of nonmanuscript
language material and essentially textual electronic resources.
Use code “m” only for these general classes of electronic
resources: computer software, numeric data, computer-oriented
multimedia and online systems or services.
This revised definition stipulates that catalogers code
electronic resources for the significant aspects of their
content, as opposed to their carrier
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Example: Serials Solutions’ records are incorrectly coded as
'computer files' in the leader
Cataloguing overview: LDR/07
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The Leader/06 determines which 008 code (Fixed-length
data elements - General information) is used and the
appropriateness and validity of other fixed data elements in
a record.
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Leader/07 (bibliographic level) indicates whether language
materials are monographs or serials
Cataloguing overview: 006 field
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006/00 = Form of material
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“m” = Computer file
006/09 = Type of computer file
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“d” = Document
Cataloguing overview: 007 field
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007/00 = Category of material
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“c” = Computer file
007/01 = Special material designation
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“r” = Remote
Cataloguing overview: 856 field
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Permanent URL resides in 856 $u
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The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), for example a URL or
URN, provides electronic access data in a standard syntax
OLS recommends that libraries set up their local website
and proxy configuration file to proxy the catalog
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Replaces previous practice of appending local EZproxy prefix to
the beginning of each URL
MarcEdit
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MarcBreaker
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Breaks a MARC record into MarcEdit's mnemonic file
format (*.mrc), the Library of Congress's MARCXML
Schema, and Dublin Core
Use this function to move vendor records from *.mrc or
*.dat formats into the *.mrk format used in the
MarcEditor
MarcMaker
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Make MarcEdit's mnemonic file format back into MARC
(*.mrc) from the MARC Tools dialog and the MarcEditor.
Use this to convert completed and saved *.mrk files
back into the *.mrc file format used in record loads
MarcEdit
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MarcEditor
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Allows users to interact directly with their MARC records,
use this function for viewing and editing
The file types *.mrk and *.mrk8 are associated with the
MarcEditor function
Editing functions include:
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Get field counts
Add and delete fields
Edit indicator data
Edit subfield data
Swap field data
Create and assign constant data
Validate MARC records
Submitting a load request
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Send in an e-book form
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Collection codes
Public notes
Location display
Load into training
 Review
 Load into production
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Removing records from Aleph
Complete sets by system number range
 Delete items by unique identifier
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Need for identifier, preferably in the 035
OLS will centrally delete from Aleph only in
batches of 50+ records
Resources
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OLS ebook page
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Cataloging electronic resources: OCLC-MARC
coding guidelines
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http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/worl
dcat/cataloging/electronicresources/default.htm
OCLC bibliographic formats: fixed fields
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http://ols.cuny.edu/ebooks/
http://www.oclc.org/us/en/bibformats/en/fixedfield/type
.shtm
Use of fixed fields in CONSER records
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http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/ffuse.html
Resources
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MarcEdit
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http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marced
it/html/index.php
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http://cunycataloging.pbworks.com/browse/#v
iew=ViewFolder&param=MARCEdit