[CODE4LIB] Free MARC records: I want them, but who has them?

2007-04-19 Thread William Denton
Is there a guide to getting free MARC records in the common programming languages, covering what libaries and modules to use and where to look, and giving code examples? If you're like me then sometimes you have an ISBN and you say to yourself, "Bill"--though why you'd say that if your name isn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free MARC records: I want them, but who has them?

2007-04-19 Thread Ed Summers
Nice work Bill. A while back Chris Biemesderfer added a section on using Z39.50 to the MARC::Record tutorial: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Record/lib/MARC/Doc/Tutorial.pod#Z39.50 If you have MARC::Record installed the tutorial is already hiding on your disk somewhere, and can be retrieved b

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free MARC records: I want them, but who has them?

2007-04-19 Thread William Denton
On 19 April 2007, Ed Summers wrote: A while back Chris Biemesderfer added a section on using Z39.50 to the MARC::Record tutorial: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Record/lib/MARC/Doc/Tutorial.pod#Z39.50 Thanks for pointing that out. I read that tutorial a few months ago but completely forgot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Applications Programmer/Analyst -- University of Michigan

2007-04-19 Thread Joe Atzberger
OK, so assuming one were interested... Apparently, they have to register to even view the web listing, by supplying an email address. Then check email. Click link, change password. (Get 2nd email.) Now login with password... But having completed these steps, I still can't authenticate. For

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Applications Programmer/Analyst -- University of Michigan

2007-04-19 Thread Ken Varnum
Yes, the site is, to be politic, awkward (imagine the interface for us to look at submitted applications). For what it's worth, I was just now able to create an account in Safari, without any confirmation emails, by clicking the "Join Today" link on the "external candidates" section. However, one

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free MARC records: I want them, but who has them?

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Wallis
> A question for the Talis people on the list: you don't make > information from Talis Source, your union catalogue, openly > available, as I read it. > Am I correct in understanding that only libraries that > contribute to it can read from it? If so, do you have any > plans to open it up? > You