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New MARC records sets available

Four new sets of MARC records have just been uploaded to http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. The new record sets include:

• Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels - This is the first set of book-level records for this collection, and it includes 133 records in MARC8 format.
• Black Short Fiction and Folkore, supplement 3 - This file includes 5 records representing 145 links to periodical sources.
• Contemporary World Music - The first set of records for this streaming audio collection includes 504 records representing 529 albums. This set is intended for customers in the U.S. and Canada only.
• Contemporary World Music, supplement 1 - This supplemental set includes 434 records representing 446 albums, and is intended for customers in the U.S. and Canada only.

Additionally, we've released several new lists of titles with URLs linking directly into our collections. Newly added title lists include:

• American Song (for customers outside of the U.S. and Canada)
• Classical Music Library (for customers outside of the U.S. and Canada)
• Classical Music Library (EMI titles available in select countries. Please view the spreadsheet for a complete list of territories where EMI content is currently available.)
• Jazz Music Library (for customers outside of the U.S. and Canada)
• Contemporary World Music (for customers outside of the U.S. and Canada)
• Smithsonian Global Sound^® for Libraries
• Alexander Street Literature
• Black Short Fiction and Folklore
• Black Women Writers
• Caribbean Literature
• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• Latin American Women Writers
• Latino Literature
• The Romantic Era Redefined
• Scottish and Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period
• South and Southeast Asian Literature
• Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works

We will continue to produce MARC records for the collections listed above, but in the meantime the title lists are available at http://marc.alexandestreet.com.

New MARC records available

We've released 4 new sets of MARC records, which are currently available for download at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. As always, our MARC records are freely available. You can also find MARC records for Alexander Street collections on OCLC WorldCat.

New record sets include:

• Latin American Women Writers, supplement 2 - This set contains 133 records with links to 133 sources, in MARC8 format. To date, we've released 428 records for this collection.
• Latino Literature, supplement 1 - This set contains 82 records with links to 82 sources, in MARC8 format. To date, we've released 1,150 records for this collection.
• Dance in Video, supplement 1 - This set contains 147 records with links to 161 works, in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats. To date, we've released 244 records for this collection.
• Alexander Street Literature, supplement 1 - Please note, this supplement is intended for customer who have the full Alexander Street Literature package including drama. The set contains 215 records with links to 215 volumes, in MARC 8 fomat.

You will also find an updated release schedule at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. Please email marc@alexanderstreet.com with any questions or comments.

New MARC record sets available

New MARC record sets from Alexander Street are available, free of charge, at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. Newly added sets include:

• Women and Social Movements in the US: Basic Edition, supplement 1 — The first supplemental set for the Basic Edition, this file contains 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets.
• Women and Social Movements in the US: Scholar's Edition, supplement 2 — This file includes 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets in the Scholar's Edition.
• Classical Scores Library, supplement 2 — This file contains 1,699 records representing 1,700 scores.
• Images of America, supplement 1 — This first supplemental set includes 465 records representing 465 books.
• Opera in Video, supplement 1 — This set contains 105 records representing 106 works.

All MARC record sets listed above are in MARC8 format. In addition to these supplemental sets, we've also released a title/URL list for Contemporary World Music customers outside of the United States and Canada. For more information and an updated release schedule, visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

New MARC record releases

We've just released several new sets of MARC records for our video, music, and literature collections. As always, all MARC records can be downloaded for free at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. MARC records are also available through OCLC WorldCat.

Recently released record sets include:

• Ethnographic Video Online - This is the first set of item-level records for this popular streaming video collection. The set contains 229 MARC records with links to 241 works.
• Counseling and Therapy in Video - This is the first set of item-level records, and contains 259 records with links to 284 works.
• Theatre in Video (US and Canadian customers) - This is the first item-level record set, and contains 268 records with links to 277 works. A set for customers outside of the US and Canada will be released shortly.
• Classical Scores Library, supplement 1 - This supplemental set contains 1,448 records representing 1,449 scores. 
• Caribbean Literature, supplement 2 - This set contains 177 records with links to 177 sources.
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, supplement 1 - This set contains 30 records with links to 30 sources.

MARC record news and releases

In addition to being available at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com, Alexander Street's MARC records are also being made available through OCLC WorldCat. As we add records to our site, they are automatically sent to OCLC, where they are processed and posted. Please note that there may be some lag time between when the records are posted on the Alexander Street site and when they are available through OCLC.

For libraries that would like to add the OCLC number to their Alexander Street MARC records, you can download spreadsheets containing the OCLC keys from our Web site here.

OCLC's WorldCat Collection sets are also now available on the OCLC site here.  OCLC keys for these sets are published on our Web site here.

Newly added record sets from Alexander Street include:

• Images of America — The first set of book-level records for this collection contains 750 records representing 750 books. As Images of America grows, supplemental MARC record sets will be released.
• Classical Music Library, Supplement 5 — The file includes 879 records representing 1,092 albums. Records are available in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats. To date, we have released 2,740 records representing 3,279 albums for Classical Music Library.
• Classical Scores Library — The first set of records for this collection, the file includes 561 records representing 600 scores. The records are available in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats.
• Black Short Fiction and Folklore, Supplement 2 — The new file includes 23 records representing 162 links to sources. To date, we have released 297 records with 442 links for this collection.
• Black Women Writers, Supplement 2 — This file includes 59 records. To date, we have released 261 records with links to 262 sources.
• Latin American Women Writers, Supplement 1 — The first supplement file for this collection contains 21 records, linking to 21 sources. To date, we've released 295 records with links to 301 sources.
• Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period, Supplement 2 — This file contains 45 records linking to 45 sources. To date, we've released 140 records with 142 links for this collection.
• South and Southeast Asian Literature, Supplement 2 — This file contains 84 records with links to 84 sources. To date, we've released 225 with links to 226 sources.

To download these sets and others, and to download the OCLC number keys, please visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

MARC records for Classical Music Library

The latest supplemental set of MARC records for Classical Music Library is now available for download at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

This set contains 734 records representing 774 albums, and is available in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats.

MARC records available for The Romantic Era Redefined

The first set of book-level MARC records for The Romantic Era Redefined has just been released, and is available for download at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. This set contains 101 records representing 245 volumes, and records are available in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats.

The Romantic Era Redefined is a growing collection, and supplemental MARC record sets will be released in the future. More information about this set can be found in the .txt file accompanying the records themselves.

New MARC record sets available

We've just released three new sets of item-level MARC records for our streaming music collections, as well as an updated product-level record for Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts.

The first sets of item-level records records are now available for Jazz Music Library and American Song, and we've released the third supplementary set for Classical Music Library. Each set includes records in UTF8 and MARC 8 formats.

All records, and a revised schedule of releases, can be downloaded at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

MARC records update for video collections

While we're waiting for the MARC records for Alexander Street's online video collections, our MARC records team has been able to provide an Excel spreadsheet for each collection listing every video title currently available together with the permanent URL for each. A number of libraries have asked for this, and we hope it helps your library improve findability for these videos while we wait for the MARC records to be completed.

To access the Excel files, please go to http://marc.alexanderstreet.com and scroll to the bottom of the page. The files are listed under "Video Collection Title/URL Lists."

The MARC records for our video collections are at the top of our priority list, and we hope to have them ready early in 2010. We're also working with OCLC to get our MARC records loaded into WorldCat, so you should start seeing our records appear there in 2010 as well.

New MARC records released

Earlier this month we released several new sets of MARC records, which are available for download now at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. The new sets include:

• Women and Social Movements: Scholar's Edition — The first set of book-level records for this collection contains 178 records for the Scholar's Edition only. Please be aware that there are separate sets of records for the Basic Edition and the Scholar's Edition.
• Caribbean Literature — Two new sets of records have been created to replace both of the previous sets. The updated record sets fix errors contained in the previous sets.
• Classical Music Library — Two new sets of records have been created. The first is a replacement set for the previous version, and contains 350 records. It has been tested and found to work with all currently updated, standard systems. The second set is a brand-new supplementary set, containing 127 additional records that have never been released. More information about both of the Classical Music Library sets can be found here.
• Jazz Music Library — The product-level record is now available.

We'll keep you posted as more MARC record sets are released.