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2nd Annual NAUUG Meeting

2nd Annual NAUUG Meeting. SUNY Connect Development of a Union Catalog. Journey from the Known into the Unknown. SUNY (State University of New York). 18 million volumes 71 locations 2-year community colleges, 4-year colleges, research universities All bibliographic formats. The mission:.

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2nd Annual NAUUG Meeting

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  1. 2nd Annual NAUUG Meeting SUNYConnectDevelopment of a Union Catalog

  2. Journey from the Known into the Unknown

  3. SUNY (State University of New York) • 18 million volumes • 71 locations • 2-year community colleges, 4-year colleges, research universities • All bibliographic formats

  4. The mission: • Build a union catalog • Using Ex Libris’ Aleph 500 software

  5. Design process • Ex Libris recommendations • SUNY recommendations from: • Working groups • Data Management • Access Management • Systems Management

  6. Policy Decisions • Local catalog plus union catalog • Single bibliographic record at union level • Shared authority control • Patron-initiated universal borrowing

  7. Functional decisions • real or virtual catalog • Connectivity • Universal borrowing • Bibliographic records • How to accomplish single record

  8. Functional decisions (cont’d) • Holdings information • Holdings library? • Embedded holdings? • Item record? • Maintenance

  9. Bibliographic database • Merging algorithm • Create pool of candidates • Refine pool to virtually de-dupe

  10. Bibliographic database • Base record from pool • Create a merged view

  11. Authority file • Purchase LC file • Provide MeSH • Then What?

  12. Holdings • Current plan = embedded holdings

  13. Universal borrowing • Unique sublibraries throughout SUNY • Shared item codes • Shared patron status codes

  14. Universal borrowing (cont’d) • Unique patron ids • Patron-initiated • Central borrower database

  15. Central borrower database • Borrower must be at local level! • How to “expire” borrower? • How current?

  16. For Progress Reports http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/ Thank you! Maggie Horn hornma@sysadm.suny.edu 518-443-5564

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