Exporting authority records

[Cheryl Calista Cook]

Donnell,

You are correct that there is currently no ability to download MARC
records off of Class Web.  We do have that on our enhancement list for
the next year, however.  At present your best bet with Class Web would
be to copy-and-paste off of the MARC record display.

You might also want to try a LC pilot site called "Web Authorities."
It is at http://authroities.loc.gov.  LC's contract with Endeavor
includes allowing access to name and series authority records from the
OPAC.  "Web Authorities" is a first effort in that area.  The up side of
"Web Authorities" is you can download MARC records.  The down side is
that it only allows a right-truncated phrase searches,  ot doesn't offer
a thesaurus style display and it doesn't  include the full LC character
set.

See what you think.

Cheryl C. Cook
Cataloging Distribution Service
Library of Congress


>>>>>> Donnell Whitaker <don.whitaker at USDOJ.GOV> 08/07 11:20 AM >>>

I am the new "kid" on the block and have been through the tutorial (so
be
gentle).  Classification Web is a fine product and is very useful.
One
thing I would like to be able to do is export MARC authority records.
Is
this possible?  Am I missing a step somewhere? If not, are there any
plans
to be able to do this in the future?  At the present time, authority
records
found using Classification Web are ptinted out and (unfortunately)
entered
by hand into our local system.  We have thousands of records to update,
so
this procedure is not going to work.   Any ideas?