I have been using National Library of Scotland as a Z39.50 target since last July with great success. They have records for most UK-published books that would be found in a school or public library. Hostname/port: z3950.nls.uk:7290 Database: voyager Syntax: USMARC Encoding: MARC-8 -Emrys ________________________________ From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of MJ Ray Sent: Sun 08/02/2009 11:13 To: irene_sachs@hotmail.com Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Z3950 Targets [Scanned] Jonathan Field <jonathan.field@ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
If you want a British target, you can look up targets here (by country):- http://targettest.indexdata.com/find.html
I can tell you that both the National Library of Scotland and Bromley Libraries work fine for me.
It depends on your needs, but catalogue.lib.ed.ac.uk is currently a useful test for me. Check targets to make sure they offer the MARC format being used (usually usmarc for British Kohas). By the way, the University of Oxford's sysadmins actually monitor the service and blacklisted one of my Koha sites when it was malfunctioning a while ago, which did make test results a bit confusing.
I believe the British Library only supply SUTRS records for free these days? I believe if you want full MARC21 records it is a subscription service.
Yes, the free BLAC target is SUTRS only, which is rather disappointing given BL's role in MARC21. The MARC21-using bl21 target is a subscription service costing thousands per year. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha