LibraryThing’s OverCat Now Includes All 12.3 Million Open Access Bibliographic Records from the Harvard Library
That’s the word in a recent post on the LibraryThing Blog.
Big Kudos to LT!
From the Blog Post:
It took a while to process, but we’ve finally completed adding all 12.3 million MARC records (3.1GB of bibliographic goodness!) to LibraryThing. They’ve gone into OverCat, our giant index of library records from around the world—now numbering more than 51 million records! As a result, when searching OverCat under “Add books,” you’ll now see results “from Harvard OpenMetadata.”
See Complete Blog Post for More Info and Screenshot
Harvard released the 12.3 million records (using a CC0 license) on April 24th. Here’s our coverage.
See Also: EBSCO Discovery Service Adds the Complete Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset Released Last Week
Filed under: Data Files, EBSCO, Libraries, Open Access
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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