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<div style="">A question I can answer. I uploaded data I was able to obtain from the Overdrive reports and created MARC records with MARCEdit. Overdrive uses a "Network key" to link into their catalog, which I used for the 856 URL field. Then I uploaded
the records into the catalog (yesterday, in fact). The only problem I have is the results for an author search floats all the "E-Overdrive" items to the top of the results, crowding out all the other "NEW" items [Bywater is working on this issue] Here is
a link to a sample record.<br>
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http://catalog.farmingtonlibraries.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=165976<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF866652"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] on behalf of Joann Ransom [jransom@library.org.nz]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 16, 2011 5:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> koha<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Koha] Managing ebooks and databases<br>
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<div>Good morning my Koha friends,<br>
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I need some advice. We are running 3.2 and within a few months we will be joing a consortia offering ebooks for download. It will either be Overdrive or a vendor using the Overdrive platform. I am not interesting in discussing how bad / evel etc Overdrive are
- I have no choice as practically all of NZ will be joining together into several consortia.<br>
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My question is how do Koha libraries provide access to ebooks within the Koha OPAC? Ditto with suubscription databases - is there a clever way to manage these in a useful ways for library patrons?<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
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Cheers Jo.<br clear="all">
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Joann Ransom RLIANZA<br>
Head of Libraries,<br>
Horowhenua Library Trust.<br>
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