CASS at the NLS
Coordinated by CASS working groupRun by Inter library services1 FT CASS assistant, plus othersCurrent depositors / partners:
Royal Scottish Academy of Music & DramaSt Andrews UniversityUniversity of EdinburghPaisley UniversityGlasgow CaledonianUniversity of AberdeenStirling University
CASS at the NLS
Materials straight on shelves4649 linear metres in use, 1 km left
Metadata loaded within 48 hours31,000 items processed
Non processed materials available
486 requests receivedGlasgow Caledonian highest requestor > 200Approx 40 not satisfied
Requests processed within 2-4 hours
CASS metadata
Requirements & minimum input standards
Data stripping
Tools used
Data conversion
Differing data depth, differing search returns
Metadata requirements
MARC21 exchange format preferredor
Tablulated data
Minimum input standardSerials
245 $a
Monographs245 $a260 $b $c1xx if relevant
Metadata preprocessing
Convert MARC exchange to MARC display using MARCEdit
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/
Add and delete fields as appropriateUsing MARCEdit VB scripts
Convert to MARC exchangeLoad onto serverLoad into CASS catalogue, creating holdings
Connecting to CASS
z39.50 connectionDomain name:z3950.nls.uk Port: 17190Database name: voyagerhttp://cass.nls.uk/z3950.htm
Voyager-to-Voyager connectionOPAC address library.nls.ukPort 17100http://cass.nls.uk/Voy2Voy.htm
OPAChttp://cass.nls.uk
The service
Find item in catalogueMake request (via local ILS)Request received immediately at NLSItem located on shelf
Scanned if section of journalDelivered via Arial
Posted if physical item
Returned to shelfDemo
Issues
Record qualityNLS and its associated bib services ?
Finding list of titlesinconsistent subject searching
Not all records have extent of runDe-duplication
Bib records and physical items
CASS and other union cataloguesCOPAC, SUNCAT CASS & St Andrews ?
CASS and distributed cataloguesCAIRNS, CASS & St Andrews ?
Thank you
Gill [email protected]
CASS servicehttp://cass.nls.uk
MARCEdithttp://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/