[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Corporate Software Library

[Eric.Elliott at l-3com.com]

Thank you for the information.  I especially liked the parts about fees.
;-)

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Eric Shayne Elliott
L-3 Communications, Link Simulation & Training
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Hardy, Elaine
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 1:54 PM
> To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Corporate Software Library
> 
> Eric,
> 
> The availability of MARC bibliographical (bib) records for 
> your library's collection will depend on the nature of that 
> collection. If your company's library consists of items 
> (software, books, etc.) that other libraries would have, you 
> will have sources for what are called copy cataloging records 
> -- basically, you are copying another source's cataloging 
> rather than doing original cataloging yourself. If the items 
> are primarily proprietary, then finding existing MARC records 
> would be problematic and you (or someone else) would likely 
> need to do original cataloging for your collection.
> 
> OCLC's Worldcat is the largest and most diverse database of 
> bib records but there are various fees attached to getting 
> those records from them.
> Generally, libraries are members of a regional network that 
> acts as a vendor and trainer for OCLC products and services. 
> There are fees with that. Then, in order to access Worldcat 
> and actually get the records, there is a fee for that as 
> well. A map of regional service providers for OCLC can be 
> found at http://www.oclc.org/contacts/regional/default.htm.
> OCLC charges these fees to all libraries whether public, 
> school, academic or special. They don't really care if you 
> are using them for gain or not. But OCLC is likely to be your 
> best source of existing MARC records for software. Being a 
> member also allows you to pay another fee to participate in 
> interlibrary loan through them.
> 
> Libraries can also retrieve MARC records from the Library of 
> Congress (LOC to most of the techies on this list, DLC or LC 
> to those of us who are catalogers). However, I don't know 
> that you would find much in the way of software in their collections.
> 
> There are other sources for MARC records as well. Some have 
> costs associated with them and some don't. 
> 
> You could contract with a cataloging vendor to convert your 
> collection to MARC records especially if you have a shelf 
> list for them to use. If you just have the materials and not 
> a shelf list, much more complicated.
> Again, money is involved since people do like to be paid for 
> their work.
> However, if you do not have someone trained in cataloging on 
> staff, you may need to go that route. Costs are going to 
> depend on the nature of your collection. Copy cataloging is 
> much cheaper than original cataloging. Cataloging of print 
> materials is general cheaper than nonprint.
> 
> If you want to catalog the items yourself, you would need to 
> learn more than just MARC format. MARC formats are the 
> machine readable form that carries the bibliographical 
> information that describes the item in hand.
> Creating good bibliographic information to input into the 
> MARC formats requires knowledge of cataloging and 
> classification standards.
> 
> Elaine Hardy
> 
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> J. Elaine Hardy
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> Public Library Service, A Unit of the University System of 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] 
> On Behalf Of Eric.Elliott at l-3com.com
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: Don McMorris; open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> Subject: RE: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Corporate Software Library
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don McMorris [mailto:don.mcmorris at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:04 AM
> 
> <<SNIP>>
> <<SNIP>>
> > Every version of every title usually gets a MARC record known as a 
> > "Bibliographic Record".  Examples for your case might be "RedHat 
> > Enterprise Linux 3", "RedHat Enterprise Linux 2", "Microsoft Office 
> > 2003", etc... The "Bib" usually contains the title, 
> publisher, media 
> > format, and anything you can think of! <<SNIP>>
> 
> Is this information readily available?  I am not sure where 
> to look and have read conflicting statements about OCLC and 
> NY library system for example as some attempt to gather the 
> information.  If I am not using it for gain but as a library 
> (even though a corp entity), is that an issue?
> 
> eselliott
> 
> ~~~~~
> Eric Shayne Elliott
> L-3 Communications, Link Simulation & Training
>