Catherine
My understanding is that there are imminent developments on this front.
When we were at Hull, I noticed that COPAC was one of the services listed in
Metafind.
However I'm not sure of the precise time-frame for this.
Michael
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catherine O'Sullivan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 20 June 2002 09:21
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Innopac z39.50 to COPAC and BL
>
>
> I realise that there were discussions in Jan 2000 on the list about
> Z39.50 access to COPAC being impossible because it was using
> SUTRS or GRS-1, but I was wondering if any further representations
> had been made to III on the matter. I am particularly interested
> because I want to use the Z39.50 access to the British Library
> catalogue, although it would be pleasant to use COPAC as well
> (especially now that they have loaded the BL catalogue). I have,
> somehow, managed to z39.50 search BL but the records are not
> 'received' in guicat or milcat which makes it all look tantalisingly
> promising. For COPAC searches I just get a 'no connection' message.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> NB: I note that the z39.50 help topic 'Searching a Z39.50 database' in
> Guicat shows the British Library as a target but the BLPC helpdesk
> says "Innopac only support MARC - they do not support SUTRS or
> GRS1. ... The user needs to contact Innopac and raise the issue with
> them."
>
>
> Catherine
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