Sixty libraries (15 added)
I've added 15 libraries:
US: Amherst/Hampshire/Mt. Holyoke/Smith, Bryn Mawr/Haverford/Swarthmore, Cornell University, Minerva (MAINE), UNC, Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania and—last but not least—the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in case your books run to the ichthyological.
UK: University of Hull, University of Reading
Ireland: University College Cork
The Netherlands: Technische Universiteit Delft
Estonia: ELNET
Latvia: Library Information Network Consortium of Latvia
The news here is the return of a Dutch library (the University of Leuven died recently), and the first Estonian and Latvian libraries. Alas, no Lithuanian ones, although I'm guessing they have some Lithuanian holdings as well.
UPDATE: It just struck me that a lot of the "libraries" LibraryThing searches are actually consortia. Maybe we should start saying "Searches 500 libraries around the world." Kinda bogus, but "60 libraries" underplayings things a lot. Hmmm...
US: Amherst/Hampshire/Mt. Holyoke/Smith, Bryn Mawr/Haverford/Swarthmore, Cornell University, Minerva (MAINE), UNC, Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania and—last but not least—the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in case your books run to the ichthyological.
UK: University of Hull, University of Reading
Ireland: University College Cork
The Netherlands: Technische Universiteit Delft
Estonia: ELNET
Latvia: Library Information Network Consortium of Latvia
The news here is the return of a Dutch library (the University of Leuven died recently), and the first Estonian and Latvian libraries. Alas, no Lithuanian ones, although I'm guessing they have some Lithuanian holdings as well.
UPDATE: It just struck me that a lot of the "libraries" LibraryThing searches are actually consortia. Maybe we should start saying "Searches 500 libraries around the world." Kinda bogus, but "60 libraries" underplayings things a lot. Hmmm...
posted by Tim at 10:31 PM
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Is there a plan to add a portuguese library soon?
And, by the way... it should be portuguese, not portugese on the main page. :P
Oh, and any news on when we can have the PT version of Librarything, instead of the Brazilian Portuguese version?
I hesitate to bring this up again, having received no official yes/no/maybe/later answer from Tim, but... what about the Israeli library consortium? I've posted links to the gateway in several previous comments, more than half a year ago. Any chance of adding those? At least half of my library is in Hebrew, and finding Hebrew titles by their LoC transliteration is... painful.
MMcM has posted the details of the Israeli server in the "Suggest A Z39.50 Server" topic on the Talk system.
As for Portuguese, well there does seem to be some accessible Portugese servers however I don't know if LibraryThing supports the format (unimarc). However I have seen one that supports ukmarc -
Biblioteca Francisco Pereira de Moura 193.136.163.70:210/INNOPAC ukmarc latin1
Tim, can you state here and on the referenced Talk topic what formats LT supports?
Apparently the Library of Universidade de Coimbra uses ukmarc as well (http://zzz.porbase.org/view/targetList.do)
If this Library could be added it would be great, not only because it's from my town, but also because it has all the books published in Portugal since the 80's in its catalog.
But I don't know much about this Z39.50 stuff... :s
You know, I think I've looked around and it may not be possible, but a link to OhioLINK would be awesome. It's huge, and it hits sooooo many Ohio Libraries all at once. If not OhioLINK...then perhaps Kent State University? (yeah, I'm bias...since I go there!)
Oh, and I agree. Count the individual libraries searched! :D OhioLINK will really up your numbers as well, as it's a consortium...*wink*
Any chance of adding the British Library? One of the biggest in the world!
No dice on the BL for a while. They don't provide MARC records, but something horrific called GRS-1.
Please consider including more West Coast U.S. libraries. Seems like the current list is very heavily weighted toward the East Coast.
How about the "Summit Catalog" - a library catalog that combines information from Pacific Northwest academic libraries into a single unified database? See http://summit.orbiscascade.org/
I sure hope you mean "the return of a Dutch-speaking library," since Leuven is in Belgium ...
Israeli libraries: I have the Israel Union List working quite well, but the character set issues are tough for Hebrew. Basically, I've conquered the character set issues--and not completely--by doing a lot of custom work, there being no easy way to convert between the multiple MARC character sets (implemented differently in different records and libaries) and UTF-8. Hebrew is, I think, a bridge too far at present. I'll need to do a lot of custom fiddling to get it right, and I'm not sure I can spare the time for that right now. It doens't help that I'd need to learn the character set to have any hope of getting it right. I've done that before, actually, but I forgot it. And I imagine there are all sorts of special exceptions lurking around the corner.
On a separate track, Chris--who also handles the servers--is doing a complete Z39.50 re-write, descending into C to get at various Yaz functions--such as chracter set fuctions--that aren't fully exposed to PHP. He may succeed in a more generalized MARC record retrieval and conversion script. If so, I expect things will get a lot easier.
So that's where we stand.
I may be able to serve as a go-between for working with OhioLINK. I'm a librarian at one of the member libraries, and involved with some of the operating committees at a statewide level. The consortium is ~85 libary, including large universities both public and private, smaller liberal arts colleges and universities, and two public library systems (Cuyahoga County [Cleveland area] and Westerville).
I'd like to see a Portuguese or Brazilian library too. Sorry I can't suggest any, but in a country of 186 million people there must be a few Brazilian ones.
keffas
Any chance of having KVK added? They're all z39.30 compliant, and searching this many national libraries at once is a great boon for LOTE material.
The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog?
I think I found what you mean--they run a meta-catalog. But do you have a pointer to the Z39.50 info?
Maybe you can connect with Lithuanian resources using this site?
http://www.libis.lt/
Libis Center, based in the M. Mazvydas National Library, is the unified catalogue of Lithuania.
I don't think the meta-catalog of KVK uses Z39.50 as an exchange protocol. More technical information about the KVK can found here: http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/dierolf/kvk/2_jahre_kvk/. If you want to contact someone about the KVK, try Uwe Dierolf (http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/dierolf/).
Good luck - Saskia
It looks like your Latvian target may be pointing to their analytics database and not their union catalog. The database name for their union catalog is lnc04.
Corinna Baksik
Systems Librarian
Harvard University Library
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