[Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?

[Arndt,Theresa]

Hi - Before you do any work yourself, ask the e-book package vendor to make the comparison for you.  Our cataloger has worked with several vendors to do this sort of thing.  The key is finding out what control number can be matched from your catalog record against their individual e-book records.  

Good luck!  - Theresa

Theresa Arndt
Library & Information Services
Dickinson College
717-245-1750
arndtt at dickinson.edu

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From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Spurgin, Kristina M
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 12:45 PM
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Subject: [Eril-l] Evaluating e-book packages - strategies for comparing title lists to your catalog holdings?

Hi, 

One of our subject librarians is wanting to evaluate an e-book package containing a few thousand titles, but suspects that we may already own a large percentage of the titles in print and/or e-book format. 

She'd like a way to automate (or semi-automate) answering the question, "How many of the titles from this list do we already provide access to in some format?" No one here has time to do a few thousand catalog searches manually...

But, I know of no obvious/simple way to match a title list against our III Millennium catalog. 

Has anyone come up with any solutions/strategies for doing this sort of comparison at your library? 

Thanks, 
Kristina

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Kristina M. Spurgin
   E-RESOURCES CATALOGER
     E-Resources & Serials Management, Davis Library
                      University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
             CB#3938, Davis Library -- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
                           919-962-3825 -- kspurgin at email.unc.edu
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