Thanks! I'll pass that on to the catalogers. Judy Daniluk
Technology Consultant, North Texas Library Partners 6320 Southwest Blvd., Suite 101, Fort Worth, TX 76109 [email protected] 817-201-6778 (cell) 817-377-4440 (office) www.ntrls.org On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:08:59PM -0500, Judy Daniluk wrote: > > Three of the 14 libraries in our consortium offer downloadable materials > > from Overdrive. They are interested in importing MARC records to show > these > > items in the OPAC. This is a problem because patrons from all the > libraries > > will see the items in the OPAC, but only patrons from the participating > > libraries can access them. > > > > Has anybody come up with a satisfying solution to a scenario like this? > > Someone suggested a notice on the front page of the OPAC saying that > > downloadables are available to patrons from libraries that participate in > > the service. Any other ideas? > > I'm a big fan of the 856 $9 subfield approach, per > http://markmail.org/message/3olbtzkxrr6y3sfy - we use that because we > have three libraries that use different proxies to offer access to > different sets of electronic resources. Potential for total chaos that > 856 $9 prevents nicely. > > Assuming the search is scoped to your patron's library / level of the > library hierarchy, then only those resources within your patron's scope > will be displayed. > > If your search scope is the whole consortium, though, this approach > won't help very much. >
