School libraries that want to download MARC records for Hebrew books into their catalogs can also search the Avi Chai Union Catalog at http://avichai.calypso.scoolaid.net/bin/home
The Union Catalog contains the holdings of a number of schools, including 31 Jewish high school libraries that receive funding from the Avi Chai Foundation. The catalog, which uses the open source library automation software OPALS (http://www.opals-na.org) is Z39.50 compliant, so it should be easy to import the records into Athena. To set up the Union Catalog as an import site, use the following settings: The host is: avichai.calypso.scoolaid.net The port name is: 210avichai The syntax is: USMARC The encoding is: UTF-8 The description is: Avi Chai Book Shelf Union Catalog Hope that's helpful. Diane Romm Avi Chai Bookshelf Coordinator Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
