I'm trying to obtain a list of lendable ebooks from Open Library (in order to dispose of corresponding parts of my personal library). My first try landed me at the "Lending library MARC records" section of https://openlibrary.org/data#bulk_download
Following the link there to https://archive.org/details/marc_lendable_books shows that the MARC records download was last updated in June 2011, and cursory inspection of what's in there suggests that it may not include even some lendable ebooks that were added to OL prior to June 2011. Is there a current source of MARC data corresponding to lendable ebooks in OL, or a straightforward way to derive one from other resources? I'd prefer not to have to learn how to write a web app simply in order to get at the catalog. Using a local database with the Perl MARC::Record package is my preference, if it's possible. If not, I'd appreciate suggestions on how to access this data with the least amount of pain. I'm a complete neophyte at the OL ecosystem, alas. Thanks, Jon Leech oddh...@sonic.net P.S. I also noticed that the out-of-date MARC database mentioned above appears to include a number of indicators which, AFAICT from the LOC MARC 21 Format page at http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ are not valid (such as ".99" and ".95"). The MARC::Field package was generating fatal errors when running into those indicators, until I patched around it. _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org