Andrew Sly wrote:
Taken all together, the PG online catalog does present plently of information that can help people interact with the collection in meaningful ways; but it may make professional librarians roll their eyes.
The design philosophy of the catalog database is: To help people find a book they may want to read. That includes both, people who already know which book they want and people who want a suggestion. The catalog database was not designed to be a tool for professionals. But this doesn't mean that I'm not willing to add some functions to help them out, so long as those functions don't get in the way of the primary functionality. Producing MARC records out of existing catalog entries seems to be a pretty forward thing. Importing other people's MARC into our database will be much hairier. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org