Hello:
Provision of USMARC bibliographic records for firm order and approval
books is a standard service from major jobbers (and has been for many
years). In addition, OCLC has a fine cataloging service called PromptCat.
I've listed websites for these oufits below. Information on cataloging
services is usually listed under "Technical Services."
Academic Book Center
http://www.acbc.com/
Baker & Taylor
http://www.baker-taylor.com/
Blackwell's Book Services
http://www.blackwell.com/
OCLC
http://www.oclc.org
Yankee Book Peddler
http://www.ybp.com/usindex.htm
I hope this is helpful.
Rob Richards
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Robert C. Richards, Jr., M.A., M.S.L.I.S
Technical Services Librarian
University of Colorado Law Library
Fleming Law Building
Kittredge Loop South
Campus Box 402
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0402
Telephone: (303) 492-7535
Fax: (303) 492-2707
E-mail: rrichard@stripe.Colorado.EDU
URL: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~rrichard
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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 12:21:07 -0500
From: Yale_Lansky@ca1.uscourts.gov
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: MARC records from Publishers?
This is a response I got from our cataloging librarian, Gordon Pew. Have
a
good
day.
Yale Lansky
US Court of Appeals Library for the First Circuit
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Subject: Re: MARC records from Publishers?
Author: Gordon Pew at BOS010APO
Date: 12/5/97 11:49 AM
Hi Yale,
Sorry I didn't respond earlier, but I only know of a handful of book
jobbers (like Baker & Taylor and Yankee Book Peddler) that will provide
catalog cards with the books they supply. And I understand that not all
the
cataloging information they supply is really LC cataloging: some of it is
done inhouse by the jobbers' staffs. So I, for one, wouldn't trust these
catalog cards. And, no, I have not heard of publishers/jobbers who supply
*online* bibliographic records for the books they publish/distribute.
A library would, as far as I know, have to turn to OCLC, RLIN, or some
other
bibliographic utility for electronic cataloging records.
Gordon
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Subject: MARC records from Publishers?
Author: Yale Lansky at BOS010APO
Date: 12/3/97 3:57 PM
any ideas Gordon
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Subject: MARC records from Publishers?
Author: "Glen Buries" <GBurieSP@co.san-diego.ca.us> at ~Internet
Date: 12/3/97 09:21 AM
Hello from Sunny San Diego...
Having completed our first ever inventory, and having purchased our first
ever library cataloging database, I am no looking forward to "populating"
that database by importing MARC records. Our library has never been
cataloged in any fashion and we have no records or original cataloging of
our own. We are not, as yet, subscribers to OCLC, MARCIVE or any other
fine provider of such records.
Do y'all know if publishers --in their kinder moments-- ever supply such
records. If so, which publishers? And how would I go about getting them
from the publishers?
I think that's my allotted three questions for the day!
Glen Buries
San Diego County Superior Court Library
Opns my own.
"Petit a petit, l'oiseau fait son nid".
Trans: This project is going to take awhile!
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Robert C. Richards, Jr., M.A., M.S.L.I.S
Technical Services Librarian
University of Colorado Law Library
Fleming Law Building
Kittredge Loop South
Campus Box 402
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0402
Telephone: (303) 492-7535
Fax: (303) 492-2707
E-mail: rrichard@stripe.Colorado.EDU
URL: http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~rrichard
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