On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Michael Emly wrote:
> E-books now seem to be taking off with several other suppliers competing
> alongside NetLibrary.
>
> Leeds has just signed up to at least 2 suppliers and now faces the question
> of how to integrate these offerings into Innopac. Obviously the OPAC is the
> main area of integration, but we would like to also include the ordering
> process in as far as this is possible (many of the deals now seem to permit
> some selection of individual titles within an overall agreement). And how
> have other libraries found the records which suppliers make available for
> their ebooks - are there quality issues? In fact, is it desirable to have
> the electronic copies on a separate record from print copies? - (MARC21 does
> give the choice and Leeds has so far resisted creating separate records for
> electronic journals where we also have the title in print format.
We haven't progressed very far at Bangor since last year. Apart from a
few odd exceptions most e-books are still from NetLibrary. We receive
MARC records from OCLC for these e-books which we can load to our
database. E-book records are loaded as separate records from print bibs
but we use the headings report to identify any that are duplicates or
later editions of print copies.
> As we come to grips with questions such as these, it would be really helpful
> to talk to colleagues in other Innopac libraries, but I'm not sure which
> other libraries are similarly thinking about these questions (or have done
> recently).
>
> I guess there could be value in using the list for an ongoing discussion of
> these issues if others were willing.
>
> I am also conscious that there was a session on NetLibrary at last year's
> conference, led by Bangor - unfortunately I was at the parallel session.
> Are any notes available? And have things moved on since (certainly the
> Bangor OPAC is most interesting in this regard!).
I'll send you a PowerPoint file of our (actually Julia's) presentation.
We haven't changed much other than the NETLI_LINK and NETLI_ASK options.
NetLibrary is now Athens compliant but we've recently found that the
WAM proxy rewrite method to access NetLibrary is not compatible with
Athens. We'll have to change the netLibrary URLs not to use WAM proxy,
zap existing user accounts and tell the users about Athens.
Mieko
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