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Currently individual e-books are ordered through GOBI by a copy cataloger, who gives a printout of the order to the Original Monographs/Special Formats Cataloger. The cataloger then waits For EBL and ebrary books, the cataloger waits for email conformation from the vendor before receiving and loading the order and cataloging the bibliographic record. Requests for cataloging e-books are also received via email from Acquisitions/Electronic Resources Management Group. In some cases they are firm ordered individually (not through GOBI) and In some cases the individual titles are part of an e-book collection set. Some sets have individual records available for batch loading from OCLC. The Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services is currently responsible for ordering and loading these sets into Sirsi. In other cases for which no record sets are available the cataloger must find and download the OCLC records individually (done on a case-by-case basis).
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856. Field 856 containing the URL for the e-book is required for remote access link. The email verifications from GOBI vendors contain the unique Rice version of the URL for each e-book ordered (EBL and ebrary). Requests from the Electronic Resources Management Group also contain the correct URLs. Always add the Rice ezproxy (http://ezproxy.rice.edu/login?url=) before the URL for all purchased e-books. Freely available e-books do not require the ezproxy. E-books ordered through GOBI have had the 856 field changed to a temporary 956 field that shadows the URL. When cataloging delete any unneeded 856 or 956 fields. Add or edit the correct URL and change the 956 field to an 856 field if necessary so that the URL becomes visible in the public catalog
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For processing details see Processing Electronic Resources