I would strongly suggest not double cataloging the books in EAD if they will be in your OPAC. It is possible to use MARC records to see the totality of a book collection. For books that we want to be able to identify as being part of a collection, we add the collection name to the MARC record (I think the 710 field). Our webpage then has a hyperlink that does a canned search of the OPAC for the collection and displays all of the books in it. See our health sciences book collections at <http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/ specialcoll/scrarebooks.shtml> Douglas A. Bicknese University Archivist University Library University of Illinois at Chicago http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/ 312-996-2742 On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Christopher Shea wrote: > I'm curious about this myself. Our archive includes a stock of medical > books, and the library director has asked me to catalog them twice: as > part of the library's regular OPAC and as part of the EAD-based > finding > aids I'm writing up. Doing the latter feels a bit like pounding a > round > peg into a square hole, and I'd be interested to hear how others have > handled it. > > --- > Christopher Shea > Staff archivist, Delaware Academy of Medicine > Wilmington, DE > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf > Of Jaime Margalotti > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:55 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Book Collections in EAD > > Hi Ead-ers, > > We have several large book collections in Endnote that we intend to > catalog as manuscript collections. Has anybody here had to turn the > output of Endnote into EAD and, if so, do you have any suggestions to > speed the process? Also, is it acceptable to use standard Chicago > Manual of Style bibliographic format for each of the books in the > finding aid or does this violate DACS? > > Thanks! > > Jaime Margalotti > University of Delaware > > -- > > Jaime L. Margalotti > Assistant Librarian > Special Collections Department > University of Delaware Library > Newark, DE 19717-5267 > 302-831-0554 > [log in to unmask]