1) Yes
2) Yes
This can be done through the WorldShare Collection Manager. The Collection
Manager does not need a subscription to WorldShare Discovery, or any other
extra subscription; it is available to any member of OCLC. Collection Manager
is designed for collections of electronic resources, and provides a knowledge
base of many hundreds of e-resource collections. But it can also be used to
create local collections of print or electronic titles.
There are two types of local collections you could create:
* a collection of titles loaded from a KBART file. The file can include OCLC
numbers, or can be linked to OCLC records after loading.
* a query collection. This query will search WorldCat and produce a list of
titles matching the query.
Once you have a collection, you can download the MARC records. You can choose
to have downloads come through the Collection Manager interface, or have OCLC
set up an FTP download site for you. The files will be in standard MARC
format, with a .dat extension.
There may be other methods of doing similar things specifically for WorldShare
Discovery customers that I am not familiar with.
It is also possible to do a batch search in OCLC Connexion Client, and export
the records into a file. You may not even need something as complicated as
Collection Manager, depending on exactly what you want to do.
Steve McDonald
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric
Lease Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 2:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [CODE4LIB] worldshare management services
For libraries who subscribe to OCLC’s Worldshare Management Services, is there
a way to: 1) create a set of records of interest, and 2) export those records
in MARC (“communications”) format? I’m talking about back-end operations here,
not public consumption interfaces. Inquiring minds would like to know. —Eric
Lease Morgan
