[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Z39.50 and Evergreen

[Grant Johnson]

Hi James,

I  have configured about 25 targets for our catalogers.
They still need to be tested and completely hashed out but I'd be willing to do this and submit them into a common repository.
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F. Grant Johnson
  Systems Coordinator
  Robertson Library
  University of Prince Edward Island

>>> On 2008/05/14 at 3:32 PM, in message
<da83a5eb0805141132s703f4915vf888c5bb6028dbd2 at mail.gmail.com>, "James Fournie"
<jfournie at sitka.bclibraries.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> My name is James and I'm on the BC SITKA (formerly PINES) team.  I
> have been working on configuring Z39.50 targets on our Evergreen
> servers.  We have had the following experiences:
> 
> Amicus/National Library of Canada
>   - works
> 
> SIRSI/Unicorn based Z39.50 servers
>   - works
> 
> Horizon-based Z39.50 servers
>   - TCN bug in Evergreen prevents some records from being imported.
> patch in the works for future release of Evergreen
> 
> TLC / ITSMARC
>   - requires "truncation" attribute for ISBN/ISSN searching
>   - requires a patch to retrieve the "F" (full records) element set
> instead of the "FI" (full records without holdings) element set
> 
> We were wondering if anyone else had any experience with Z39.50
> targets.  I would like to compile a list of "supported Z39.50
> services" for libraries shopping around for vendors.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James Fournie
> BC SITKA Project Consultant