Question/Topic:
How to retrieve information from the browser (Direct Search)?
Direct Search: use online search engine (example: Library of Congress, Amazon.com). Transfer book, movie, cd, resource data from the browser to library database. You can use predefined search sites and search scripts (Amazon.com, Library of Congress) or you can define and add new ones.
Amazon.com direct search and automated cataloging:
- On the Web menu click Add Records from the Internet.
- To start Direct Search click Browser tab (1).
Search Amazon.com online catalog (2). Review a list of found items (3). Click on the item that you are looking for.
- If you want to retrieve data click Import From This Page icon (4).
- Data retrieved from the web page is displayed in the Found Items table. Click Import to move data to your library database.
Library of Congress direct search and automated cataloging:
- On the Web menu click Add Records from the Internet.
- To start Direct Search click Browser tab (1).
Search Library of Congress online catalog (2). Review a list of found items. Click on the item that you are looking for (3).
- If you want to retrieve data click Marc Tags tab (4) and then click Import From This Page icon (5).
- Data retrieved from the web page is displayed in the Found Items table. Click Import (6) to move data to your library database.
questions:
How do you search the Internet to find a book when you
don't know the ISBN number? We have a lot of older books that were printed
before they were assigned an ISBN. When I demoed the program for the Librarian
today she liked the ISBN look-up for downloading data but pointed out that that
would only work with books that had an ISBN.
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