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Thank you so much for the offer - I'm working with Harvard's now, and I think I should probably get on to the analysis and write up. Thanks everyone! Christina -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Sandford Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 8:49 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions? Christina, I can grab a random 1000 descriptions/summaries from our catalog records easily enough and send them to you. I assume you're looking for data in the MARC 520 field. Do you need additional info (title, author, etc?). ------- Mark Sandford Systems Librarian Assistant Professor in the Libraries Colgate University Libraries On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Pikas, Christina K. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All, > Current bibliometrics project is in a humanities/social sciences area > (not typically my specialty). I'm looking for book descriptions for > maybe ~1000 books. Even if I could automate filling in a few more of > these, I would be happy. I could scrape a catalog page, but that might > be frowned upon. I could also download the free MARC files from LoC, but that's way too much. > We (JHA) don't maintain a cataloging subscription to WorldCat (JHE - > our parent org, I'm sure must). OpenLibrary appears to not have descriptions. > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > Christina > > ------ > Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS, PhD > Librarian > The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory > Baltimore: 443.778.4812 > D.C.: 240.228.4812 > [log in to unmask] >