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Our project maintains a database of bibliographic metadata for all things in astronomy and most of physics. We'd like to add records for books that have been recently added to our library and to correlate existing records with the library holdings. Sounds easy enough, but because of the intricacies of Harvard libraries administration we haven't been able to get a dump of the records, much less a feed. The recent emails about OCLC worldcat records made me wonder if we could get the equivalent data from them (since our library subscribes to them). Essentially what I'd like is a dump of all QB and QC records in OCLC entered by Harvard, so we can index them and then point to the library record in OCLC. Is this (a) legal, (b) feasible, (c) easy? I assume the answer to (a) and (b) is yes, since we have our library's support. If not, are there alternatives? I learned about openlibrary only yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to explore what's in it yet... Thanks, -- Alberto