[Evergreen-catalogers] E-Book Question

[Jason Stephenson]

Quoting "Schooff, Rose (LVA)" <Rose.Schooff at lva.virginia.gov>:

> I have a library considering adding Overdrive and other e-book  
> records.  What is the best way to distinguish them from books?   
> Should we have separate records for each member collection  of  
> e-books?

We have Overdrive on a consortium-wide basis. Some of our members
have Overdrive Advantage, some do not. Central site cataloging
staff add records for the consortium-wide collection. We do not,
yet, add records for members' Overdrive Advantage records.

We have talked about adding the Overdrive Advantage records. The
current thought is to have 1 record. We would add 856 with a
located URI for each member as appropriate. So, the answer is
that having 1 record shared by all Overdrive customers should
work.

I would recommend creating a bibliographic record source for
Overdrive. This makes isolating the Overdrive records from the
rest of your collection very easy. This way, if you have to
update or alter the Overdrive records, you can have a bulk
change done by a database wizard without worrying about
it affecting other, non-Overdrive records.

Presently, I see no way to add a new bibliographic record
source via the staff client. Someone with database acess would
need to do it. It is a relatively straightforward database
insert statement.

For refernce, our Overdrive source looks like this:

id  | quality |     source      | transcendant | can_have_copies
-----+---------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------
  102 |       1 | OverDrive, Inc. | t            | f


The transcendant [sic] flag means the records show up without
having copies or located URIs in search. The can_have_copies
set to false prevents staff from adding copies. An insert like
the below would create the equivalent in your system:

insert into config.bib_source
(quality, source, transcendant, can_have_copies)
values
(1, 'OverDrive, Inc.', 't', 'f');

If you want to use located URIs, you will want to set the
transendant field to 'f' for false. This will prevent the
records from showing up in search at locations that do not
use Overdrive.

Hope that helps,
Jason

>
> Rose M. Schooff
> Evergreen Virginia Project Manager
> Technology Consultant
> The Library of Virginia
> 800 E. Broad Street
> Richmond, VA  23219
> (804) 692-3772
> Cell (804) 310-7901
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Jason Stephenson
Assistant Director for Technology Services
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
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Email: jstephenson at mvlc.org