[WEB4LIB] Re: [Fwd: URLs in Catalog]

[Luck, Deanne]

We also did the big MARCIVE record dump in January and on our first link
check afterwards, found approx 3,000 broken links.  A few hundred are PURLs,
but most are regular URLs.  Many of them are old and rather worthless (NEA
Grant guidelines from 1996).  I was hoping for better quality from a pay
service.

We are gradually working our way through the broken links, although it will
be a project covering many months.  As for correcting GPO PURLs, you can
report the bad PURLs through askLPS if you are a depository.  They usually
have them corrected in a week or so (and I don't even find the correct site,
I just report them as broken).  The catch right now is not to report Dept of
Interior sites!

DeAnne Luck
Electronic Resources Librarian
Austin Peay State University
LuckDL at apsu.edu




-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Kuntz [mailto:jkuntz at ansernet.rcls.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: [Fwd: URLs in Catalog]


GPO uses PURLs, so they're pretty stable. We dumped 16000+ into our WebPAC
using MARCIVE's Documents Without Shelves service, which seem like a very
good bargain. The monthly service seems to average about 200 changed
records, which overlay existing records.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Yuliya Lef <ylef at coloradomtn.edu>
Reply-To: ylef at coloradomtn.edu
Date:  Wed, 20 Mar 2002 12:54:24 -0800 (PST)

>Hello,
>A colleague of mine has asked me a question quoted below, which left me 
>quite puzzled.
>How stable government docs pages are? Is it possible to do a link check 
>within a libcat?
>Any advice would be highly appreciated.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Yuliya Lef
>Virtual LRC Coordinator
>Colorado Mountain College
>
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: URLs in Catalog
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:56:45 -0700
>From: Sharon Moller <smoller at coloradomtn.edu>
>Reply-To: Sharon Moller <smoller at coloradomtn.edu>
>Organization: Colorado Mountain College
>To: Yuliya Lef <ylef at coloradomtn.edu>
>
>What happens when I add a URL to a Marc record (the 856 field) that
>accompanies a Gov Doc (print copy) that we have in our collection - How
>do I keep track of such URLs so I know when the URL no longer words?  I
>can see that the print item might be valid in the collection for several
>years, but will the Government entity maintain that link forever?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sharon Moller
>
>
>
>

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Jerry Kuntz
Electronic Resources Consultant
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org

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