[Web4lib] Open Library books in the catalog

Tim Spalding tim at librarything.com
Tue Jul 19 13:52:11 EDT 2011


Do people want these records "fully" in the catalog, or would some
sort of side-bar notice be good. I'm thinking some bar on searches
that says "23 books found in Open Library..." with a link to see them?

Tim

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Riesner, Giles W. <GRIESNER at ccbcmd.edu> wrote:
> We recently added a group of Project Gutenberg books for which there
> were MARC records  already
> created. Now our Collections Development librarian want to do the same
> with some books from
> Open Library (and perhaps become a "lending library" as part of it). I
> only see records there in JSON
> and BibTex format (no MARC records).
>
> Has anyone else done this and how did you add in the records?  Any
> suggestions would be welcome
> either on or off list.
>
> Thanks.
>
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