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Stephen V. Pomes, Librarian
U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Minerals Management Service - Library
1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., MS 5031
New Orleans, La. 70123
Telephone: 504-736-2521
Fax: 504-736-2525
E-Mail: stephen.pomes@...

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Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily correspond to those
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Behlke [mailto:cjdermont@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:57 PM
To: Free_MARC_Records@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Free_MARC_Records] Digest Number 153

The Library of Congress www.loc.gov is a good place to start. I was a
librarian at a small not for profit tribally own university that closed
my campus because of money troubles ( they are now going through
bankrupcy). I know what it's like to run things on the cheap. Other
places with good quality records was our state (South Dakota) library
www.sdstatelibrary.com.

If we couldn't find it in those locations we would look for the place of
publication and then search the state library of that location. We used
the LOC schedual for cataloging but if we found a dewey record, we would
take that record and gave it a new call number but would reuse much of
the other information.

Something else you can do is look for inexpensive automation software.
You could check out www.librarysoft.com. Just before we had to lock the
doors we bought a web based OPAC plus various moduals (circulation,
overdue, etc) for around $1,200.00. You could go less, I think the OPAC
alone was for $999.00

LibraryComm www.librarycom.com offers a low cost "state of the art Web
based system....With a standard Web browser you can search, catalog, or
circulate from any location on the Internet. Your data is always
available, backed up and secure." "Pricing is based on the size of your
collection. You can preview the service for up to 30 days for free. Then
select the service level which meets your storage requirements.
Most special and school libraries will be using the Standard service at
$365 per year."

I hope that was of some assistance. If I can be of futher help (with the
campus closed I'm looking for new work) I have the time.

Robert Behlke
CJDermont@...


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> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:25:58 -0600
> From: "Pomes, Stephen" <stephen.pomes@...>
> Subject: FW: Marc import for openbiblio
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> Stephen V. Pomes, Librarian
> U.S. Dept. of the Interior
> Minerals Management Service - Library
> 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., MS 5031
> New Orleans, La. 70123
> Telephone: 504-736-2521
> Fax: 504-736-2525
> E-Mail: stephen.pomes@...
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:35 AM
> To: Free_MARC_Records@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Marc import for openbiblio
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> I am a system administrator for a small non-profit 4year University in

> Oakland CA. We cannot afford a library OPAC, in fact we have no
> software at all. I recently installed the opensource package
> Openbiblio (see sourceforge.net) and it seems to be viable.
> Our librarian is
> willing to try it. One of the limiting factors is still the cost of
> populating the catalog database. A free catalog would help us
> substantially. Where can I find these free marc records?
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