Library Cataloging
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has had a good idea, converting RSS into MARC. He had in mind taking the RSS feed for the Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) and using XSLT to change those records into MARC. It should also work for the Scout Report or any of those type of sites. One script would need to be written for each site probably, but it could benefit many libraries. On the basis of this one post I've added him to my RSS reader.
RSS
MARC
- Librarything
Some very interesting things going on at LibraryThing, the home cataloging tool. They now have MARC records for many of their titles. I didn't see a way to download them, but they might be useful for very small libraries.But even more interesting...
- Really Rudimentary Catalog
Really Rudimentary Catalog is a simple "card catalog" program. It consists of:bin/acquire.pl - a rather brain-dead acquisitions program that downloads MARC records from the Library of Congressbin/marc2html.pl - another brain-dead program that converts...
- Cataloger Profile
The C&RL News for February 2004 has a profile of David Sleasman, metadata and cataloging coordinator at the Scout Project.If the prospect of having the Internet as your special collection and the world as your audience exhilarates rather than intimidates,...
- Z39.50
oss4lib reports that the Visual Basic Binding of ZOOM Z39.50 API has a new version available.:VB-ZOOM is an ActiveX COMponent, written in Visual Basic, which is an implementation of the ZOOM (Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model) Abstract API. It is a wrapper...
- Cataloging Tips
Here is a resource just too good to keep in Texas, Cataloging Tips written by Dr. Joanna F. Fountain. Tips include:Cataloging videos with multiple programsReading Program InformationUsing Publishers' Names in Cataloging Records - Field 260MARC Agency...
Library Cataloging
Cataloging the Net
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has had a good idea, converting RSS into MARC. He had in mind taking the RSS feed for the Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) and using XSLT to change those records into MARC. It should also work for the Scout Report or any of those type of sites. One script would need to be written for each site probably, but it could benefit many libraries. On the basis of this one post I've added him to my RSS reader.
RSS
MARC
- Librarything
Some very interesting things going on at LibraryThing, the home cataloging tool. They now have MARC records for many of their titles. I didn't see a way to download them, but they might be useful for very small libraries.But even more interesting...
- Really Rudimentary Catalog
Really Rudimentary Catalog is a simple "card catalog" program. It consists of:bin/acquire.pl - a rather brain-dead acquisitions program that downloads MARC records from the Library of Congressbin/marc2html.pl - another brain-dead program that converts...
- Cataloger Profile
The C&RL News for February 2004 has a profile of David Sleasman, metadata and cataloging coordinator at the Scout Project.If the prospect of having the Internet as your special collection and the world as your audience exhilarates rather than intimidates,...
- Z39.50
oss4lib reports that the Visual Basic Binding of ZOOM Z39.50 API has a new version available.:VB-ZOOM is an ActiveX COMponent, written in Visual Basic, which is an implementation of the ZOOM (Z39.50 Object-Orientation Model) Abstract API. It is a wrapper...
- Cataloging Tips
Here is a resource just too good to keep in Texas, Cataloging Tips written by Dr. Joanna F. Fountain. Tips include:Cataloging videos with multiple programsReading Program InformationUsing Publishers' Names in Cataloging Records - Field 260MARC Agency...