I agree the marc records are terrible. If you use Alexandria for your circ
system there is an api that checks for new titles and adds skeletal marc
records. They need to be tweaked but the nice thing about it is you can
click on the status and see if the ebook is available. If you go to my
opac:
http://alex.menloschool.org/researcher#_
and search for Divergent as title, look for the ebook entries that say
check status and try it out.
Cathy
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What I'm reading now:
*Eileen - *Moshfegh
*The Gatekeepers* - Whipple
Cathy Rettberg, Head Librarian
Menlo School
Atherton, CA
http://library.menloschool.org
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Melaine Huyck-Aufdermaur <
mhuyckaufdermaur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, the OD MARC records are atrocious. I edit them by hand for
Castilleja, including taking out the included subject headings and putting
in real ones.
Also, Bailee informed me that we won't be able to create and feature
collections, and the OD librarians will do that for us.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Jessica Simons <
jsimons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all
Hope everyone's having a good start to the school year!
I'm not sure if anyone else has set up access to the new shared
collection, but I've given my students/faculty/staff access to it. I'm new
to OverDrive, but this is what I've discovered so far:
- The MARC records they sent were in horrible shape - has anyone else
experienced this?
- The subjects they have are set by the publisher and I wish we had
more control over that because some are quite vague.
- I haven't played around with creating collections - has anyone done
that?
- I don't like that access to the app requires them to not only use
their school issued login to authenticate, but they also have to create an
account with their email address. It's just one additional step, but it
causes confusion among my students.
- Still not sure how we will be adding titles to the shared
collection - perhaps some of my fellow committee members know?
- For some reason, Diary of a Wimpy Kid was added to our shared
collection? Did we select that or are we seeing titles for the younger
grades as well?
Thanks,
Jessica
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*Jessica SimonsHead Librarian jsimons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jsimons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 510-881-4349 <(510)%20881-4349> *
*Moreau Catholic High School*
*A College Preparatory School in the Holy Cross Tradition*
27170 Mission Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94544
510.881.4300 <(510)%20881-4300>
http://www.moreaucatholic.org
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Melaine Huyck-Aufdermaur
Library Services Specialist
Castilleja School
1310 Bryant Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
