Hello, request for help and offer of help
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1MttobyMeeting
First, let me introduce my meeting to you all. I attend, and am on the library committee of Mt. Toby Friends meeting in Leverett, Massachusetts. https://www.mounttobyfriends.org/
Our meeting has been around since the early 60's, and our meeting still uses a card catalog for the library. I am working towards our library having and using a complete and accurate digital catalog instead. When circumstances allow, we are hoping to test a server with Evergreen installed on it. (While I appreciate that TinyCat would probably serve, our library has 5500 + records and would cost at least a quarter of the annual budget to maintain.)
I have a plan for getting metadata off of the catalog cards and using it to either locate or create MARC records to use in Evergreen or perhaps some other software if it proves too much of a headache.
I would really appreciate help in the form of advice, if possible, from anyone on here who has already tackled this type of project, especially people familiar with scanning and programming. For example, one question I have is, what the best places to look for MARC records are, specifically for books that are likely to be in Quaker libraries?
I am also wondering if people on here would be willing to send me MARC records via email if I can't find them through Overcat, amazon, etc. etc.?
I would also then like to offer help to anyone else who is thinking of doing a project like this, to share what I have learned and will likely learn in the course of this work.
Sincerely,
Franklin Bryan
Our meeting has been around since the early 60's, and our meeting still uses a card catalog for the library. I am working towards our library having and using a complete and accurate digital catalog instead. When circumstances allow, we are hoping to test a server with Evergreen installed on it. (While I appreciate that TinyCat would probably serve, our library has 5500 + records and would cost at least a quarter of the annual budget to maintain.)
I have a plan for getting metadata off of the catalog cards and using it to either locate or create MARC records to use in Evergreen or perhaps some other software if it proves too much of a headache.
I would really appreciate help in the form of advice, if possible, from anyone on here who has already tackled this type of project, especially people familiar with scanning and programming. For example, one question I have is, what the best places to look for MARC records are, specifically for books that are likely to be in Quaker libraries?
I am also wondering if people on here would be willing to send me MARC records via email if I can't find them through Overcat, amazon, etc. etc.?
I would also then like to offer help to anyone else who is thinking of doing a project like this, to share what I have learned and will likely learn in the course of this work.
Sincerely,
Franklin Bryan
2lesmel
Best option for MARC in the USA in probably, Lib of Congress (LOC), Harvard, Yale, etc. Depending on your subject, some libraries can be exceptional. Offhand, I can think of 2-3 seminaries that probably allow z39.50 access to their catalogs.
MARC records do not fare well via email. If people are willing to share, stick with a sharing site like Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive.
I highly recommend MARCEdit for finding & editing MARC records. MARCEdit is free. It allows you to search other library systems via z39.50 (assuming you have connection details), download said records, modify the records, and save to a mrc file for future uploading to a system (like evergreen).
As for evergreen, don't discount the manual overhead when considering the cost of something like opensource software. Someone has to run it, update it, train people to use it, etc. Plus the cost if the server.
I have no idea of your set up; but I am assuming you would qualify as a volunteer library on LT. For 10k titles, that is 10/mo.
MARC records do not fare well via email. If people are willing to share, stick with a sharing site like Box, Dropbox, or Google Drive.
I highly recommend MARCEdit for finding & editing MARC records. MARCEdit is free. It allows you to search other library systems via z39.50 (assuming you have connection details), download said records, modify the records, and save to a mrc file for future uploading to a system (like evergreen).
As for evergreen, don't discount the manual overhead when considering the cost of something like opensource software. Someone has to run it, update it, train people to use it, etc. Plus the cost if the server.
I have no idea of your set up; but I am assuming you would qualify as a volunteer library on LT. For 10k titles, that is 10/mo.
