Library Cataloging
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a few tools specific to Innopac.
- Links In Lc Records
News about 856 links from LOC.I've received a couple of questions recently about the 856 links in LC records for the TOCs, descriptions, bios, sample texts, etc. and wanted to spread the word about what we did. Every month, around the first of the...
- Marc Tools
In a few weeks I'm giving a talk on MARC tools.There are many free tools available to perform specific tasks on MARC records. Proper use of these tools will help to eliminate improper coding, clean up of catalogs, or transform records into another...
- Urls
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an...
- Links
This from Library Techlog, another possible solution to broken links.Robust Hyperlinks and Robust Locations. URLs can be made robust so that if a web page moves to another location anywhere on the web, you can find it. Even if that page has been edited....
- Persistent Url
There is another PURL service available U-ID. This is a for profit organization. Seems to me the OCLC PURL system would be a better option for libraries. There is the need for these services. I just wonder why the OCLC service has not caught on more widely....
Library Cataloging
Maintaining the Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a few tools specific to Innopac.
"MarcXGen extracts URLs from MARC 21 bibliographic records and generates HTML code to create a single web page of hyperlinks that can be used with third party Link Checking software such as LinkBot and Xenu's Link Sleuth. With Version 2, MarcXGen also creates separate files of delimited data that may be used to build a relational database environment that may simplify some maintenance tasks associated with bad or problem URLs in library database records."
- Links In Lc Records
News about 856 links from LOC.I've received a couple of questions recently about the 856 links in LC records for the TOCs, descriptions, bios, sample texts, etc. and wanted to spread the word about what we did. Every month, around the first of the...
- Marc Tools
In a few weeks I'm giving a talk on MARC tools.There are many free tools available to perform specific tasks on MARC records. Proper use of these tools will help to eliminate improper coding, clean up of catalogs, or transform records into another...
- Urls
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an...
- Links
This from Library Techlog, another possible solution to broken links.Robust Hyperlinks and Robust Locations. URLs can be made robust so that if a web page moves to another location anywhere on the web, you can find it. Even if that page has been edited....
- Persistent Url
There is another PURL service available U-ID. This is a for profit organization. Seems to me the OCLC PURL system would be a better option for libraries. There is the need for these services. I just wonder why the OCLC service has not caught on more widely....