E- in the OPAC (IUG 2001) – Karl Fattig, Bowdoin College Library, [email protected] Complete version of handouts available at: http://www.bowdoin.edu/~kfattig/iug2001/

Selected E-Book Resources

Sources for E-Books

1. : http://promo.net/pg/ 2. Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ 3. ALEX Catalogue of Electronic Texts - http://www.infomotions.com/alex/ 4. netLibrary - http://www.netlibrary.com 5. Books 24x7.com – http://Books24x7.com 6. Powell’s Books – http://www.powells.com 7. Barnes and Noble – http://www.bn.com 8. Nelinet - http://www.nelinet.net/cpp/eroffers/net_lib.htm

Cataloging Tools

1. Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition, 1998 Revision. American Library Association, 1998. [AACR2] 2. Bibliographic Formats and Standards, Second Edition. OCLC, 1996. http://www.oclc.org/oclc/bib/about.htm 3. Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines, revised 1999 October 25 / by Jay Weitz. http://www.oclc.org/oclc/cataloging/type.htm 4. Cataloging Internet Resources : A Manual and Practical Guide, Second Edition / Nancy B. Olson, editor. OCLC, 1998. [Olson] http://www.purl.org/oclc/cataloging-internet 5. Draft Interim Guidelines for Cataloging Electronic Resources / Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/dcmb19_4.html 6. GPO Cataloging Guidelines: Computer Files No. 1A. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/cgcomp01.html 7. Guidelines for Coding Electronic Resources in Leader/06 / Library of Congress (July, 1999). http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ldr06guide.html 8. Guidelines for the Use of Field 856, Revised August 1999 / Prepared by the Library of Congress, Network Development and MARC Standards Office. http://www.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html 9. ISBD(ER): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Electronic Resources / recommended by the ISBD(CF) Review Group. (Munchen : K.G. Saur, 1997). http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbd.htm 10. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data / prepared by Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, in cooperation with Standards and Support, National Library of Canada. Library of Congress, 1999. [MARC21]. 11. MARC21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data (1999 English Edition) http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html 12. MARC.pm http://marcpm.sourceforge.net/ 13. MARCMaker/MARCBreaker website http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcutil.html 14. Use of Fixed Fields 006/007/008 and Leader Codes in CONSER Records / Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/ffuse.html.

E-Book Technologies

1. Adobe - http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/webbuy/freebooks.html 2. Glassbook - software – http://www.glassbook.com 3. Gemstar International Group owns Rocketbook - http://www.rocket-ebook.com ($199) Softbook - http://www.softbook.com ($599) 4. Peanut Press (owned by netLibrary) 5. Everybook - http://www.everybook.net – two-page display, touch-screen features ($1500) 6. EInk - http://www.eink.com/index.htm 7. Clear Type - http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/default.htm 8. Other sub-pixel rendering technology - http://grc.com/cleartype.htm

Presentations / Publications:

1. Can E-Books Improve Libraries / Chris Rippel - http://skyways.lib.ks.us/central/ebooks/index.html 2. E-texts: E-merged and E-merging / Candy Schwartz – http://www.nelib.org/netsl/oct00_ebook.ppt 3. E-Books (TECHNICAL SERVICES LAW LIBRARIAN v.25, no.4 (June 2000) / Kevin Butterfield http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/25-04/inet.htm 4. Electronic Books: To “E” or not to “E”/ Stephanie Ardito http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr00/ardito.htm 5. E-Books: Report on an Ongoing Experiment / Nancy Gibbs - http://www.shylibrarian.com/ebooks/articles/gibbs.htm 6. Librarians, Producers, and Vendors: The netLibrary Experience / Lynn Connaway http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/connaway_paper.html Customizing MARC records for Books24x7.com e-books Jonathan Jiras, Rochester Institute of Technology (This handout and additional documentation available: http://www.rit.edu/~jjjwml/ebooks) Books24x7 Books24x7 (http://www.books24x7.com) is an subscription based, IP-authenticated e-book aggregator of over 800 computer science and information technology titles. Publishers include MIT Press, O'Reilly, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Que, Sams, Sybex and Wiley. New books are constantly being added. Software Used MARCmkr.exe and MARCBrkr.exe (freeware from the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcutil.html) MS Excel 97, MS Word 97, FTP Server Software Innopac Requirements: must have FTS, Rapid Updating, MARC Record Loading via FTS, and Create Lists. Step 1: Download the MARC records and open them in MS Word. Books24x7 provides MARC records to libraries that request them. They are good quality records with full authority control and LC subject analysis. Use LC's MARCBreaker software to convert the MARC records into a readable form. (from a dos prompt type: "marcbrkr input.mrc output.txt text21.txt") Open them in MS Word. =LDR 00000nam\\2200000\a\4500 =001 bks00000100 =005 20000412153947.0 =006 m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ =007 cr zn| =008 000412s1998\\\\nyua\\\\\\\\\\000 0 eng\\ =020 \\$z0471251941 =050 14$aQA76.9.D34$bS56 1998b =082 00$a005.74/068/4$221 =100 1\$aSimon, Alan R. =245 10$a90 days to the data mart$h[computer file] /$cAlan Simon. =246 3\$aNinety days to the data mart =246 30$aData mart =256 \\$aComputer document. =260 \\$aNew York :$bWiley,$cc1998$e(Norwood, Mass. :$fBooks24x7.com [generator]) =500 \\$aTitle from title screen. =516 \\$aText. =530 \\$aAvailable also in a print ed. =538 \\$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. =550 \\$aDigitized and made available by: Books 24x7.com. =650 \0$aData marts. =856 7\$uhttp://www.books24x7.com/marc.asp?isbn=04712519417$z$zClick here for the electronic version.$2http Step2: Use search and replace to customize the records (note: the special character "^p" will find or replace a carriage return. extensive use of ^p is made in the notes below) Challenge: URL goes directly to Books24x7, where user is authenticated for access. Valid RIT users coming from a non-RIT IP would be blocked. Solution: Change the URL to point a script on our web server that first checks to see if they are using an RIT IP. Replace all instances of "$uhttp://www.books24x7.com/marc.asp?" with "$uhttp://wally.rit.edu/cgi- bin/ipcheck.cgi/library.books24x7.com/marc.asp%3F" Users with an RIT IP are simply forwarded to Books24x7. Users without an RIT IP are sent to the library's proxy server (EZProzy) that prompts them for their campus-wide DCE username and password. (script available at http://www.rit.edu/~jjjwml/ebooks/ipcheck_script.html) Challenge: URL text is not descriptive enough, and is not RIT specific. Solution: Replace "$zClick here for the electronic version." to: "$zUse restricted to RIT students, faculty, and staff. Please provide your DCE username and password if prompted." Challenge:MARC records provided by Books24x7 are generic for all libraries. Solution: Every record has a "550 Digitized..." note. Use this fact to add local notes, genre subject headings and other institution specific elements to the MARC record. Note that the MARC variable fields do not need to be in order, the Innovative load table will place them into numerical order. RIT uses this fact to add additional fields such as: · 440 series statement · 506 usage restriction note · 690 genre subject heading · 710 Added corporate author entry for Books24x7 Replace: "=550 \\$aDigitized" with: =440 \0$aBooks24x7 electronic books^p=506 \\$aAccess limited to RIT students, faculty and staff.^p=690 \\$aWWW Electronic Books^p=690 \\$aWWW Electronic Online Materials^p=690 \\Computer Science and Information Technology^p=710 2\$aBooks24x7.com^p=550 \\$aDigitized Challenge: Our users find the note: "Available also in a print ed" confusing. We feel it misleads them into thinking the library also owns the print edition. Solution: replace "=530 \\$aAvailable also in a print ed.^p" with nothing. Challenge: The 538 field does not contain what we traditionally have placed there. Solution: Replace "=538 \\$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web." with "=538 \\$aSystem Requirements: Internet access, World Wide Web browser. Mode of access: World Wide Web." Errors: Common errors that your processing may have caused or were problems with the original MARC record file. Find any instance of Remove those fields. This finds blank fields that for some reason or other were $a^p in the MARC records. Delete them. Find any instance of There might be something wrong This will find any record that does not end with a URL. $2http^p= with this record examine closely There might be something wrong here. Find any instance of Examine the record closely Last time there were three 949 fields in these records. Delete =949 these fields. Find any instance of Delete missing fields This will find fields with no data. Delete these fields. If it is an $a^p or $z^p ISBN or ISSN field look at the URL and check that it works properly. We had to reformat some Books24x7 URLs to work properly. By default the URLs use ISBNs or ISSNs, but when there is no ISBN or ISSN, you will need to reformat the URL by hand to use the Books24x7 Book id#. Here's the syntax: http://library.books24x7.com/toc.asp%3Fbkid=725 Find any instance of Examine the record closely If you don't find any ".=" then your records are good. If you find .= some, clean them up manually. (We found two in my first attempt at loading records)

Step 3: Create the MARC records, load into your Innopac Save the document as a text file and process with MARCMakr.exe. At a DOS prompt type: "marcmakr.exe output.txt B24x7.mrc marc21.txt"

Copy the file B24x7 to an FTP server.

If processing for the second time. Find all the existing Books24x7 titles in your Innopac (create a list with criteria: "440 = Books24x7 electronic books" for example) and delete them with "Delete record of any type." (see rec. #8267 of rel. 2000 manual for details)

Load MARC Records Into Your INNOPAC via FTS (see rec. #13748 of rel. 2000 manual for details)

Reload every few months. Total time: 3 hours

Summary: In reaching out to the library market, Books24x7 should be commended for making high quality MARC records available "for free" to its library customers. Libraries can very easily and quickly customize these MARC records to suit their own needs. A minimal amount of software, expertise, and skills are involved.

See all of the Books24x7.com records in the RIT library catalog at: http://albert.rit.edu/search/t?SEARCH=books24x7+electronic

The Rochester Institute of Technology has used similar customization methods to customize MARC records for other e-book aggregators including NetLibrary (and until they went out of business in March 2001, ITKnowledge).