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2nd Annual NAUUG Meeting
SUNYConnect 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:
• Build a union catalog
• Using Ex Libris’ Aleph 500 software
Design process
• Ex Libris recommendations
• SUNY recommendations from:
• Working groups– Data Management– Access Management– Systems Management
Policy Decisions
• Local catalog plus union catalog
• Single bibliographic record at union level
• Shared authority control
• Patron-initiated universal borrowing
Functional decisions
• real or virtual catalog– Connectivity– Universal borrowing
• Bibliographic records– How to accomplish single record
Functional decisions (cont’d)
• Holdings information– Holdings library?– Embedded holdings?– Item record?
• Maintenance
Bibliographic database
• Merging algorithm
• Create pool of candidates
• Refine pool to virtually de-dupe
Bibliographic database
• Base record from pool
• Create a merged view
Authority file
• Purchase LC file
• Provide MeSH
• Then What?
Holdings
• Current plan = embedded holdings
Universal borrowing
• Unique sublibraries throughout SUNY
• Shared item codes
• Shared patron status codes
Universal borrowing (cont’d)
• Unique patron ids
• Patron-initiated
• Central borrower database
Central borrower database
• Borrower must be at local level!
• How to “expire” borrower?
• How current?
For Progress Reports
http://www.sunyconnect.suny.edu/
Thank you!
Maggie [email protected]
518-443-5564