I am not sure about this (others are probably better informed) but I think that the COPAC Z39.50 server might not serve full MARC records. Certainly this page suggests it does not:

This means that Millennium will be attempting to produce MARC from records which do not have the richness of MARC’s fields, which would explain the effect.

The RLUK database, which partly underlies the COPAC database, is a full MARC21 database, but to access that via Z39.50 you have to be an RLUK member or pay a subscription.

Matthew

Matthew Phillips

Electronic Systems Librarian, Durham University

Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham, DH1 3LY

+44 (0)191 334 2941

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Subject: Copac Remote search

Hello

Whenever I download a bibliographic record which I have found through a remote catalogue search of Copac, a lot of the data loads into the wrong fields. The author, title and pub. Info transfers to 100, 245 and 260 as it should, but almost all other fields (including added authors, physical description and ISBNs) become 500 note fields. All subjects end up in 650, regardless of whether they are personal names, corporate names, geographical subjects, etc.

As remote searches of other libraries catalogues load data into the correct fields, I have been assuming that this is Copac’s problem, rather than ours, but I was wondering if other libraries who download from Copac knew a way to get round the issue? I’ve spent a while staring at the load tables, and can’t find a solution.

Thanks in advance

Anna James

Catalogue Librarian
Lambeth Palace Library London SE1 7JU Tel.: +44 (0)20 7898 1400/1267 Fax: +44 (0)20 7928 1043 <http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/>

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