We have found having catalogue records for individual online
resources has been very effective in promoting online
products and getting them used. We have all our Overdrive
and netLibrary titles in our catalogue. We have catalogued
all our databases (e.g. Britannica, World Book, OneFile
etc.).
One huge frustration has been getting catalogue records for
the titles in our Naxos Music Library product.
Naxos is a great product (now has more than 19,000
streaming CDs).
Consistently one of our top online products.
The frustration is that we have less than 5,000 vendor
supplied catalogue records.
Naxos is adding 500 CDs per month, the situation gets worse
every month.
Naxos is using OCLC to create catalogue records - it is
not getting done.
As much as I like the Naxos product, 25% coverage of titles
is an issue.
Questions:
Do other Naxos Library users share this frustration?
Have any other Naxos Library users come up with a
solution?
Is it unreasonable to expect vendors to provide catalogue
records for the contents of their services?
I have asked Naxos if they can export a file of their
holdings, could we convert it to MARC (hugely file format
dependent of course)?
Specific
example of a problem:
Naxos has recently added the Trust Kill label to their
offerings. There are 34 Trust Kill CDs in Naxos - they
are hardcore metal and thrash albums. NO ONE would ever
think to look within Naxos (known largely as a classical
music source) for these CDs.
We could catalogue these 34 (but that would still leave
14,000 to do).
We will create a one off page of the Trust Kill CDs, with
links into Naxos -- but that is really a kludge.
Peter
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Peter Schoenberg (780) 496 1855
Director - eServices - Edmonton Public Library
www.epl.ca
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