Hi Ally
Will look out for this with interest.
We already have Aquabrowser and this does seem to offer a nice solution to
some of this. It looks like you just need to drop a MARC file in place and
the records will be included. (See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/)
But this presumes the 'keep the records out of the LMS' is the right
approach, and it is not for all.
Our (LMS) catalogue is exposed else where, such as the M25 search, Suncat.
And others will add COPAC and Worldcat to the list. Plus other local
union-ish services.
By simply adding these records to a next gen catalogue system they will not
be available to these types of systems. This may be desirable (Does someone
searching Suncat want to know that your users have online access to a
journal) but the opposite may also be true.
Lets take a thesis, born digital in a repository. It would seem desirable to
add the thesis to main LMS catalogue (especially as printed/bound thesis
would appear there), and make it available to third party union/cross-search
systems.
Next gen catalogues are - I think - certainly part of the solution, but only
when you just want to make the records available via your local web interface.
Cheers
Chris
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:53:31 -0000, ally <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Chris,
>
>We will be reviewing four more 'next-generation library catalogues' in the
>March issue of 'Serials', which you might find of interest. (In the November
>08 issue we reviewed three.) Perhaps it's a case of just finding the one
>that suits your needs best. These reviews have all been done by people who
>have actually implemented the various systems in their libraries.
>
>Ally Souster
>(Editorial Assistant, Serials, UKSG)
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