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Subject:        RE: Map images through an online catalog
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:39:38 -0500
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
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The MARC 856 field provides the linking mechanism to use.  It would require having the server address for an individual file.  This is what Library of Congress does for the images of their maps.  Many of these also appear in other library OPACs (like ours).  Instead of mapping to somebody else's site, you would map it to the public site where your image(s) are archived.

Ken

Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA


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Subject:        Map images through an online catalog
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0500
From:   Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi,

Are any map librarians linking to their own map image database from a
Voyager catalog or from WorldCat Local? We do this for the David
Rumsey maps, but I wonder if anyone is linking from a map record in
their OPAC to the specific individual image in their own database of
map images.

Any information would be great. And in fact linking strategies from
any of the standard OPACs would be interesting.

Bob


Bob Kibbee
Map & GIS Librarian
Map and Geospatial Information Collection
B17 Olin Library, Cornell University
Ithaca,  New York    14853-5301
voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-3609