Thanks for the information Joshua. I'll look into Koha for this and see
if it meets the needs. I think the person teaching the class wants the
students to create authorities, so I'm not so sure that a good base of
authority records is needed.
Edward
Joshua Ferraro said the following on 5/25/2006 10:26 AM:
Hi Ed,
Koha (http://koha.org) uses MARC authority records. You can demo
the authority headings search on LibLime's OPAC demo:
http://opac.liblime.com
What we're lacking is a really good MARC21 Authorities Records (the
example you see above was generated from the data in that database
rather than from an external authorities file). I've looked into
purchasing authorities from the LOC but it's pretty expensive. If
you have access to a good set of authorities and would like to
test the capabilities of the system using them, let me know.
Cheers,
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:53:09AM -0400, Edward Corrado wrote:
Hello All,
I have been asked to set up an Open Source ILS for someone who is
teaching a cataloging class this summer. One of the things she was
hoping to be able to do with it is have students work with MARC
Authority records. I can't find any evidence that any of the currently
available [1] Open ILS systems use MARC Authority records [2]. Does
anyone know of one that does? Maybe I'm missing something.
Ed C.
[1] A 2002 article in Information Today
(http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=9975) mentions
that the LearningAccess ILS uses MARC Authority records, but I went to
there website and didn't see any evidence that this product was still an
Open Source program (and also I didn't see no way to download it). I
will probably contact them separately if I can't find another system to use.
[2] It appears that Evergreen will use MARC Authority records, but the
wiki says "authority control in marc editor" is still on the to-do
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