[Koha] Re: Books in Spanish (fwd)

[Pat Eyler]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Bigwood, David wrote:

> Pat,
>
> OCLC is not open to the world. It looks like the state of Idaho has
> purchased access privileges for all the libraries in the state.

It may not be free for the taking, but that doesn't mean we couldn't look
at building a convenient interface into Koha for libraries who chose to
pay for such access.

>
> Now if you are meaning restricting searches by languages, that is fairly
> simple. In 008 there is a 3 letter code for language. There may also be a
> language code in 041 of the MARC record.
>

hmm, that's good to know too.

-pate

> Sincerely,
> David Bigwood
> bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
> Lunar & Planetary Institute
> Cataloging news: http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Eyler [mailto:pate at eylerfamily.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: [Koha] Re: Books in Spanish (fwd)
>
>
> hmm, an interesting threadlet.  is there a way that this could be useful
> to koha libraries?
>
> -pate
>
> Pat Eyler
> Kaitiaki/manager               migrant Linux sys admin
> the Koha project               ruby, shell, and perl geek
> http://www.koha.org            http://pate.eylerfamily.org
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:30:34 -0800
> From: Ron Force <rforce at uidaho.edu>
> To: LIBIDAHO at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Books in Spanish
>
> If you sign up for your free access to OCLC's First Search WorldCat you
> could use the advanced search (not hard, just more options than a simple
> search), search for your authors while limiting the search to books in the
> Spanish language.
> You get:
>
> Victoria Holt: 160 records
> Agatha Christie: 569 records
> Danielle Steel: 222 records
>
> Obviously, multiple editions. Each record has a list of the holding
> libraries, giving you a place to fire off an ILL request.
>
> Sign up info at: http://www.lili.org/worldcatdemo.htm
>
> Come'on people--it's the world's largest and greatest bibliographic
> database, all provided by your tax $$$. It's useful for ILL and Reference.
> You'll be surprised how easy it is to use, and the immense amount of stuff
> in there.
> ********************************************
> Ron Force                 rforce at uidaho.edu
> Dean of Library Services  (208) 885-6534
> University of Idaho     Moscow 83844-2350
> ********************************************
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LIBIDAHO - for Idaho Libraries and Librarians
> > [mailto:LIBIDAHO at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of stanlib
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:55 PM
> > To: LIBIDAHO at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Subject: Books in Spanish
> >
> >
> > Hola! Stanley has become bilingual! We have one patron who has requested
> > books in Spanish. Since we have absolutely no books in Spanish I need some
> > help. Our customer likes Daielle Steele, Agatha Christie and
> > Victoria Holt.
> > I'd like to hear from any libraies having holdings that would
> > appeal to this
> > customer. Thanks in advance for your help.
> > Jane Somerville
> > Library Director
> >
>
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