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<div dir="auto">That is what we do, too. We have a custom catalog for our ebooks with EBSCO that I update monthly -- via FTP. The problem I'm having is that when I enable individual items in EBSCO, it only enables the items in Publication Finder -- they aren't
accessible via EDS. I've been dealing with this frustration for quite some time with different answers from different EBSCO reps. In some cases, it seems they create a Custom Link to create the EDS access, but I'm not entirely clear about that. I'm working
to learn more, but realizing that there are lots of gaps in EBSCO's training/support. I often use a "sandbox" profile to work through some issues, so I'll keep at it.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I appreciate your info about local collections -- it makes sense that they are for print (given the name!).</div>
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<div dir="auto">I'm also trying to sort this out with our regional EBSCO specialist, but he isn't easy to get in touch with. I'll see what happens.</div>
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<div dir="auto">It's geat to get feedback from this list -- I've never used it before this (other than checking for alerts). I appreciate you taking the time to respond.</div>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Heidi, We do not catalog e-books. In EDS we have a
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custom catalog</a> for our Ebook central content and upload monthly using FTP, but all other ebooks are discovered in EDS by activating/‘turning on’ resource(s) by that vendor in Ebsco Admin. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">My understanding is
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Local Collections</a> are for physical collections In your library. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you don’t want to load the marc records to your ILS and you want to discover the items in EDS you would need to ‘turn on’ resources to search in EDS.
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">..Or talk to Ebsco about creating a custom catalog for the ebooks.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">--heather</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'century' , serif;color:navy">Heather Siemon</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'century' , serif;color:navy"><a href="mailto:hsiemon@bridgeport.edu">hsiemon@bridgeport.edu</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'century' , serif;color:navy">203-576-2414</span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Diane Westerfield<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 24, 2020 11:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heidi Card <cardh@duq.edu>; eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] FW: [External] EBSCO issue w/ vendors -- ebooks not accessible via EDS, only Pub Finder</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We catalog e-books that we buy in large groups, firm order (selective orders), or have a DDA program for. Normally the vendors and consortia will provide your library with MARC
records, and your cataloging staff can edit records (MARCEdit), and load them into your ILS. Then if you have EDS (or whatever discovery layer), your e-book records would be harvested along with other records, and appear in the discovery layer. Thus, you don’t
have to worry about maintaining e-books on a title-by-title basis in the discovery layer.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">So for example we have bought Oxford Scholarship Online e-books. Oxford tells us when new MARC records are available. Our cataloging staff get the records, edit them, and load
them into our ILS where they will appear in the OPAC (public catalog). EDS harvests our catalog automatically, and in a few days the e-books appear on the EDS side. Large amounts of e-books can be handled in batches.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I would say that with the amount of e-books (firm order and large groups) and all the streaming video subscriptions we’ve been getting (where the MARC records get treated much
like e-books), it’s quite a large burden that’s being shifted onto the cataloging staff. So be careful and make sure they aren’t getting stressed out by the workload.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">We don’t catalog the incidental e-books that pop up in EBSCOHost databases, or a few other things we subscribe to.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hope this helps,</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">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.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Now I’m even more interested if there are others who are NOT cataloging ebooks. ;)
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">We order ebooks that are NOT EBSCO and I enable in Holdings Management, but this only allows accessibility in Publication Finder, NOT EDS</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Usual work around that EBSCO has utilized is to create Local Collection of the books and then a CustomLink</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">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</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:'calibri' , sans-serif">Kind of defeats the purpose of having a discovery layer if items can’t be searched in it</span></p>
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