[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] downloadable materials limited to patrons of participating libraries

[Judy Daniluk]

Thanks!  I'll pass that on to the catalogers.

Judy Daniluk

Technology Consultant,  North Texas Library Partners

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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:08:59PM -0500, Judy Daniluk wrote:
> > Three of the 14 libraries in our consortium offer downloadable materials
> > from Overdrive.  They are interested in importing MARC records to show
> these
> > items in the OPAC.  This is a problem because patrons from all the
> libraries
> > will see the items in the OPAC, but only patrons from the participating
> > libraries can access them.
> >
> > Has anybody come up with a satisfying solution to a scenario like this?
> >  Someone suggested a notice on the front page of the  OPAC saying that
> > downloadables are available to patrons from libraries that participate in
> > the service.  Any other ideas?
>
> I'm a big fan of the 856 $9 subfield approach, per
> http://markmail.org/message/3olbtzkxrr6y3sfy - we use that because we
> have three libraries that use different proxies to offer access to
> different sets of electronic resources. Potential for total chaos that
> 856 $9 prevents nicely.
>
> Assuming the search is scoped to your patron's library / level of the
> library hierarchy, then only those resources within your patron's scope
> will be displayed.
>
> If your search scope is the whole consortium, though, this approach
> won't help very much.
>
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