[Web4lib] Harvesting U. Michigan OAI records for digitized books

[Elizabeth Winter]

Georgia Tech is currently debating whether to harvest records from U. Michigan for the digitized books that they're making available (see Roy Tennant's blog post for more info.: http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1330028733.html?nid=3565&no_cj_c=0).  

The idea would be to include the records in our upcoming VuFind implementation so that users could access thousands of additional OA books.  

We have opinions on both sides here....  Have others considered doing this?  What was the rationale for your decision either way?

Many thanks,
Elizabeth


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Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Collection Acquisitions & Management
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: elizabeth.winter at library.gatech.edu
phone: 404.385.0593
fax: 404.894.1723