Re: [LM_NET] TECH: Follett users without access to Alliance

[Ria Faber <ria_faber@HOTMAIL.COM>]

For Marc records from other sources:
I use the following:
Access Pensylvania   http://205.247.101.11/search~S1
Michigan's MELCAT   http://elibrary.mel.org/search
and OHIOLINK   http://www.ohiolink.edu/
for Religious books   http://clicnet.clic.edu/

The download is easy--once you've searched for and found an individual 
record, you see a button at the top of the screen that says "Save Records" 
or "Export".  You can begin another title search with the button "Another 
Search".   After you have collectively saved as many records as you want, 
you then click on the button that says "View Saved" that shows after saving 
a record.

For Follett format, move the bullitt to MARC format and the location bullit 
to "Local  disk".
Click "Submit".  Then you are asked for a save location and filename.  I 
always save to a folder I created called "MARC records", just overwriting my 
last download, with the filename "mel.txt" (mel) or "ohio.txt" (ohio) or 
just "export.txt".

In Cataloging you choose File-->Import MARC 21/852 holdings 
format-->Import-->path to desktop and file.  Follett defaults to look for a 
microlif file, not a .txt, so you have to tell it to look for "all files" 
not just "data files".

Once the records are in you can add the copy info for each.




Ria Faber, Librarian
Covenant Christian HS, Grand Rapids MI
ria_faber@hotmail.com
Library Website: http://www.covenantchristianhs.org/Library/index.htm
"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." 
Louisa May Alcott

Date:    Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:40:11 -0500
From:    "johanna.newsong@rcn.com" <johanna.newsong@RCN.COM>
Subject: TECH: Follett users without access to Alliance

I already have Alliance, but I am looking for other sources=20
for MARC records that people with Follett are using=2E  Is there
anything that is easy, quick and costs less than the online
Alliance (which is around $300/yr)=2E =20

Johanna Halbeisen
Woodland School K-4
Southwick, MA 01077
johanna=2Enewsong@rcn=2Ecom

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