Justin, I've recommended that same approach here but to my knowledge none of our libraries are doing it yet, is it working well for you?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Justin Hopkins < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Galen, > > Here in Missouri many public libraries participate in a group purchase of > electronic resources through Overdrive - a program called molib2go. ( > molib2go.org) > > All molib2go member libraries have access to the same set of resources and > they share the available copies. It is also possible for a library to > purchase additional copies of individual titles that are only available to > their patrons. So, while the entire group may share one copy of "The Hop" > if a particular library wants to ensure their patrons have access to this > must read item, they can purchase one or more additional copies. > > Overdrive makes the groups MARC records available on an FTP server each > month and we have a process that downloads the records, adds $9s for each > Missouri Evergreen library who subscribes to molib2go, and adds them to the > database. > > The premium set of records all have different 856 urls, so when we receive > those from the individual libraries we add the single $9s and then attach > that as an additional 856 to the record from the group load. The result is > that a library who does subscribe both as a group and with added copies for > their library only would see two 856 links in the catalog. > > Justin > > > On 7/15/14, 7:59 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Liam Whalen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Jul 15, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Mike Rylander <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> * If yes to the previous question, would this extend to copy visibility? >>>> >>> No, this is strictly for URIs. I believe, because copies are physical, >>> they are much more >>> naturally assigned to the OUs that need to have control of them. URIs, >>> in Sitka’s case, >>> may be assigned at various levels depending on how a library or system >>> needs to >>> conceptual organize ownership. >>> >> Are there cases, either at Sitka or in other consortia following this >> discussion, where LURI visibility of shared electronic resources do >> not map cleanly to the OU hierarchy at all? For example, do two >> libraries who have no relationship other than membership in Sitka ever >> go in on an eresource package together? >> >> Regards, >> >> Galen >> > > -- Rogan Hamby, MLS, CCNP, MIA Managers Headquarters Library and Reference Services, York County Library System “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1630.Ray_Bradbury> “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1069006.C_S_Lewis>
