From Administration, go to Z39.50 clients targets page. Click on button new Z39.50 server, and enter hostname, port and database mentioned above. Enter Z3950 Servers as Mysore University and syntax as MARC21/USMARC. All other fields can be empty. Once completed
Dear Professionals, I am happy to announce the availability of * Mysore University Library catalog* via the* Z39.50* *protocol. * Catalogers world over now can copy our MARC21 records at no cost. As you are aware IRSpy maintains the directory of Z39.50 catalogs world over (http://irspy.indexdata.com/). As per this source ours is the first Indian University Library to provide this facility and that too with 100% Connection Reliability as rated by IRspy,The only other Indian Library listed is Delhi Public Library, but with less Connection Reliability as per IRspy. The main reason for high rating our connection reliability is due to our hosting of OPAC on Amazon Cloud through OSS Labs, Bangalore. Our catalog has about 2.5 Lac records in four languages (English, Kannada, Hindi, Urdu), which may not be available in sources such as Library of Congress. Our catalogue hosted through KOHA 3.6 has many unique features and can accessed at URL * http://libcat.mysore-univ.org/ * Mobile Link at URL *http://libcat.mysore-univ.org/* Any Z39.50 client can be used to connect to our database, clients may include your library management system, MARC Edit or other bibliographic tools. Connectivity details are as follows: Host: z3950.mysore-univ.org Port: 7090 Database: biblios Publishing catalog via Z39.50 is an inbuilt feature Koha. I encourage library professionals to use this facility to their advantage. If any other library in the country has made available in India please let me know. *To configure this server in Koha, please follow these steps:* press Save. *To configure this server in MARC Edit, please follow these steps:* Go to Z3950/SRU client from the tool home page, Click Modify database and then Add Datatabase. Enter hostname, port and database per details above. Enter Z3950 Servers as Mysore University and syntax as MARC21/USMARC. All other fields can be empty. Once completed press Save. Regards, Dr. I.R.N. Goudar Visiting Professor and Library Adviser University of Mysore Formerly Scientist 'G' and Head, ICAST National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.