Here, There, and Everywhere: Where Do MARC Records for eBooks Come From?

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Here, There, and Everywhere: Where Do MARC Records for eBooks Come From?

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at 1:00 PM–2:00 PM CDT

Room 103

Conference Track

1. Managing e-Resources & Licensing

Keywords

MARC records, ebooks

Learning Objectives

Following this session, participants (librarians) will be able to identify what their needs are and articulate those to the publishers/vendors who provide MARC records.

Following this session, participants (publishers/vendors) will better understand their customers' needs for more specific information in communications regarding availability of MARC records.

Following this session, participants (librarians) will be able to make confident decisions about where they get their MARC records from.

Abstract

Ebooks proliferate, and the types of providers are almost too numerous to count. To complicate matters further, there are different types of purchases – firm orders, PDA/DDA, approval plans, subject collections from publishers and from aggregators/platform hosts, etc. We’ll look specifically at the challenge of getting MARC records for ebook purchases.