Batch-loaded Records Galore!

Cataloging & Metadata Services has batch-loaded over 12,690 MARC records for monographs since January, 2007. Batch-loading of records provides timely access to electronic books, including the campus' electronic theses and dissertations, and to records for Asian language hard-copy books the Libraries acquires but for which it does not have catalogers with the language expertise. Batch-loading also provides access to full bibliographic records for individual titles in large microform sets.

Batch-loaded e-book records this year have included titles in the ACLS Humanities E-Book, ENGnetBASE, ENVIROnetBASE, Knovel Library, Oxford Reference Online Collection, the SPIE Digital Library, and CU Boulder theses and dissertations. For the microform set, English and American Drama of the Nineteenth Century, 10,932 records were loaded.

Last year an exceptionally large set of 136,211 e-book records was batch-loaded for Eighteenth Century Collections Online.