We're not on Evergreen yet, but we're working our way toward it.
We get authority records from Backstage Library Works. I've been very
pleased with their turnaround time when I send them our latest file
of bibs. Our current work flow is to do a quarterly extract of the
latest bibs and reload them to overlay when Backstage is finished
with them. Our files are usually about 11,000 bib records, and
several thousand authority records. I'm waiting to see how
Authorities will work in Evergreen.
At 04:31 PM 1/20/2010, you wrote:
Hi All - please feel free to point me to a link or past discussion
if folks have already talked about this and I'm just not finding the
discussion.
I'm wondering what distribution services people are using to get
their authority records? We migrated without asking for ours and
this is a decision I've come to regret (happy to explain that if
anyone is interested but won't go into it now).
We use YBP for most of our cataloguing but they don't supply
authority records. You can get 'em for free from LC, but only 1 at
a time - our collection is small but not that small :)
I know about OCLC's Connexion service, I think this is overkill for
our needs, but seems to be their only solution. I've also found
Backstage Library Works and Library Technologies Inc. Do people
have other suggestions or recommendations? Am I missing something
totally obvious?? What are you all doing about authority records??
I'm happy to take emails off list on this one and send a summary back out.
Cheers, Cynthia
Mary Llewellyn
Mary Llewellyn
Database Manager
Bibliomation, Inc.
Middlebury, CT
[email protected]
