James Weinheimer wrote: > I keep repeating that ISO2709 is > used for *transfer* of records and not storage. When I download a record > from another library catalog, it compiles the ISO2709 on the fly. My catalog > then parses and reworks it for the structures of my catalog, probably > something completely different from the remote catalog. At this point, the > ISO2709 format vanishes, and if somebody later wants to download the > record from my catalog, my catalog recompiles the ISO2709 record along with > any updates I have made and sends it to the other catalog, etc. etc. This > works *only* in library catalogs. Therefore, ISO2709/MARC21 is a standard > for library record *communication* and not for library catalog storage.
While you keep repeating it, that doesn't necessarily make it so. As I have written several times now, the Ex Libris Voyager system most certainly DOES store records essentially in the ISO2709 format. Whether or not that is a good thing, I'm not going to comment on. But I just want to point out that what you are asserting is most definitely untrue. Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Bibliographic Services Dept. Northwestern University Library 1970 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2300 email: k...@northwestern.edu phone: (847) 491-2939 fax: (847) 491-4345
