MARCit webinar Thu 9/17 10am
Showing posts with label Cataloging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cataloging. Show all posts
September 3, 2026
July 1, 2026
New MARC record source
NHAIS libraries now have access to a new source of MARC records. MARCit from Auto-Graphics lets you search millions of bibliographic records from a number of sources and download selected records for local use. If your ILS permits it, you can search MARCit as a Z39.50 target and pull records directly into your catalog. Alternatively, you can search inside the NHAIS ILL System interface and download records to a file that you later import into your catalog.
MARCit as a Z39.50 target in your ILS:
Server Address/Host/URL: marcit-service.auto-graphics.com
Port: 210
Database ID/Database Name: MARCITZIP
Syntax/Format: MARC21/USMARC
Username: MARCITZIPUSER
Password: call the NHAIS Help Desk at 603-271-2141 for the password
MARCit as a resource within the NHAIS ILL System:
This will work with any staff login but we strongly suggest using the "cat" username for MARCit searching and downloading. There are downsides to using "ill" or "all" usernames which are noted below. If you need to reset any of your NHAIS ILL System passwords, call the NHAIS Help Desk at 603-271-2141.
Click on the "stack o' pancakes" icon to the left of the search box. To search just MARCit, uncheck Library Catalogs and check Cataloging.
Clicking on a title in the View Download Cart list displays full MARC info for that record. You can clear your Download Cart with the Empty the Cart button in the upper right.
Note that if you're searching MARCit with the username ending with "ill" or "all" you'll see the Request This Item button in your results. Using this will bring up the request form as usual and the ILL program will go through its usual routine to determine if New Hampshire lenders are available. If you're creating ILL requests, you should be searching with Library Catalogs checked rather than Cataloging so your results will be limited to what's held in Granite State libraries.
You can configure your "cat" login to search MARCit by default. Go to Your Account (top right of screen) > Your Favorite Resources, check Cataloging and uncheck Library Catalogs, then click the Save Resources button.
Note that MARCit is not curated. There's no attempt to deduplicate results or rate record quality. It's a large pool of MARC records available to you in a single search. Using the NHAIS ILL System interface allows you to take advantage of its facets, grouping, and sorting capabilities plus its ease of navigating from one record to the next but many catalogers will prefer the convenience of being able to draw records directly into the local catalog via Z39.50.
Need more help? Contact the NHAIS Help Desk via e-mail or at 603-271-2141.
June 11, 2026
Linked data and URIs -- #7 Resources
Even if your library isn’t currently using linked data, it’s helpful to be aware of these practices, especially with the increasing presence of URIs in cataloging data. The posts shared here over the past 6 weeks have only presented some introductory material on linked data and URIs in MARC records.
Here are some links to more information on these topics if you want to dive deeper:
- World
Wide Web Consortium (WC3) wiki on linked data:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData - Library of Congress Linked Data Service: https://id.loc.gov/
-
Program
for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) URI FAQs
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/TaskGroups/URI%20FAQs.pdf -
PCC
Task Force on Linked Data Best Practices Final Report:
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/linked-data-best-practices-final-report.pdf -
PCC
Guide to Formulating and Obtaining URIs:
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/linked-data-best-practices-final-report.pdf
This is the final post in a series weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.
June 4, 2026
Linked data and URIs -- #6 Example of a Relator URI
The 100 field for the author in our example bib record also contains a third URI in a subfield $4.
As stated in an earlier post, URIs may now be used in subfield $4 to link to records that provide information about the relationship/relator codes that catalogers have been using for a while in this subfield.
The URI in the second subfield $4 of this example:
$4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
links to the record below from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/) which describes the relator, “author” (represented by the code “aut” in the first subfield $4):
author
- A person, family, or organization responsible for creating a work that is primarily textual in content, regardless of media type (e.g., printed text, spoken word, electronic text, tactile text) or genre (e.g., poems, novels, screenplays, blogs). Use also for persons, etc., creating a new work by paraphrasing, rewriting, or adapting works by another creator such that the modification has substantially changed the nature and content of the original or changed the medium of expression.
- URI(s)
- Codes
- aut
- Variants
- joint author
- Narrower Terms
- author in quotations or text abstracts
- author of afterword, colophon, etc.
- author of dialog
- librettist
- lyricist
- screenwriter
- SubProperty Of
- Editorial Notes
- changed MARC def
- History Notes
- MARC bib: 1XX/7XX/8XX $4
- Instance Of
- Scheme Membership(s)
- Collection Membership(s)
- Collection of Past and Present Relators Entries
- Relators - BIBFRAME Collection
- Relators - RDA Collection
- Relators - RDA Work Collection
- Relators - RDA Creator Collection
- Change Notes
- 2021-08-02: new
- 2022-11-29: modified
- Alternate Formats
URIs in subfield $0 might also point to records describing other types of controlled terms used in cataloging. For example, the URI for content type from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/sti.html) would be entered in the subfield $0 of a 336 field:
336 field from MARC record:
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt
Record linked to by URI in the subfield $0 describing the controlled term “text”:
text
- URI(s)
- Codes
- txt
- History Notes
- MARC bib: Leader/06: a or t
- Instance Of
- Scheme Membership(s)
- Collection Membership(s)
- Change Notes
- 2021-08-13: new
- Alternate Formats
In the next and final post of this series, you’ll find a list of resources that you can use to learn more about linked data and URIs in MARC records.
This is the sixth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.
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