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Thanks for the information Joshua. I'll look into Koha for this and see if it meets the needs. I think the person teaching the class wants the students to create authorities, so I'm not so sure that a good base of authority records is needed. Edward Joshua Ferraro said the following on 5/25/2006 10:26 AM: > Hi Ed, > > Koha (http://koha.org) uses MARC authority records. You can demo > the authority headings search on LibLime's OPAC demo: > > http://opac.liblime.com > > What we're lacking is a really good MARC21 Authorities Records (the > example you see above was generated from the data in that database > rather than from an external authorities file). I've looked into > purchasing authorities from the LOC but it's pretty expensive. If > you have access to a good set of authorities and would like to > test the capabilities of the system using them, let me know. > > Cheers, > > -- > Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE > President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support > LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS > [log in to unmask] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS > > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:53:09AM -0400, Edward Corrado wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I have been asked to set up an Open Source ILS for someone who is >> teaching a cataloging class this summer. One of the things she was >> hoping to be able to do with it is have students work with MARC >> Authority records. I can't find any evidence that any of the currently >> available [1] Open ILS systems use MARC Authority records [2]. Does >> anyone know of one that does? Maybe I'm missing something. >> >> Ed C. >> >> >> [1] A 2002 article in Information Today >> (http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=9975) mentions >> that the LearningAccess ILS uses MARC Authority records, but I went to >> there website and didn't see any evidence that this product was still an >> Open Source program (and also I didn't see no way to download it). I >> will probably contact them separately if I can't find another system to use. >> >> [2] It appears that Evergreen will use MARC Authority records, but the >> wiki says "authority control in marc editor" is still on the to-do >> list*"**** >> * >>