[Eril-l] FW: [External] EBSCO issue w/ vendors -- ebooks not accessible via EDS, only Pub Finder

[Heidi Card]

So. . . I've received a few responses from others who catalog ebooks in their OPAC -- and I have a feeling this may be common. I didn't even think of it, but I started my role here without much of a background in collections and found out that ebooks were not being cataloged, given the new functionality of discovery systems.

Now I'm even more interested if there are others who are NOT cataloging ebooks. ;)

Thanks again for any feedback/comments you might have -

Heidi


Heidi Card (she/her), MA, MLIS
Access & Discovery Librarian, Collections & Metadata Services
Gumberg Library | Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282
cardh at duq.edu<mailto:cardh at duq.edu> | 412.396.5233
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From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> On Behalf Of Heidi Card
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 10:32 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: [External] [Eril-l] EBSCO issue w/ vendors -- ebooks not accessible via EDS, only Pub Finder

Hello -

I'm not getting far with EBSCO on this and wondering if others are dealing with the same issue:

*         We order ebooks that are NOT EBSCO and I enable in Holdings Management, but this only allows accessibility in Publication Finder, NOT EDS
*         Usual work around that EBSCO has utilized is to create Local Collection of the books and then a CustomLink
*         Over the past month, I've been told there is a "glitch" that won't allow the creation of Local Collections so I'm collecting a "pile" of ebooks that aren't accessible via EDS
*         Kind of defeats the purpose of having a discovery layer if items can't be searched in it

Please let me know if anyone has encountered this and what they are doing to work around it/create access.


Thanks & kind regards,

Heidi


Heidi Card (she/her), MA, MLIS
Access & Discovery Librarian, Collections & Metadata Services
Gumberg Library | Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282
cardh at duq.edu<mailto:cardh at duq.edu> | 412.396.5233
www.duq.edu/library<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.duq.edu%2Flibrary&data=02%7C01%7Ccardh%40duq.edu%7C0dddd77b0ad84717de4a08d86096a599%7C12c44311cf844e4195c38df690b1eb61%7C0%7C1%7C637365547441915467&sdata=lEi%2BKLeEbZQF0E6vIg51UAXlz7TjDYH58oP1de9Tccg%3D&reserved=0>






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