We subscribe to some EBSCO packages, one of which includes around 500 ebooks in amongst the journal titles. We have downloaded the free MARC records from EBSCO, but frankly, they are very disappointing in their quality - no dates, no authors, no subject terms, etc. I wonder what others do in this type of situation. Would you load the records into your catalogue regardless, on the basis that it will provide better access for the users? Would you upgrade the records first (although I am not sure that's an option with 500 records), or would you not take the records, leaving users to find the books through the EBSCO interface? I guess that this type of scenario will occur more and more for us, and I would be interested to hear others' approaches.
Nicky Ransom
Data Quality Manager and Cataloguer
University for the Creative Arts
Farnham, Surrey.
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