Tables of Contents users?

["Nora Copeland" <ncopelan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne,

Colorado State University Libraries (CSUL) subscribed to 
Blackwell's Books Service's  Tables of Contents (TOC)  service in 
June 2000 and has sent their MARC bibliographic records of titles 
published since 1992. CSUL will send all the newly cataloged 
records for TOC enrichment on a quarterly basis.  CSUL opted for 
the addition of 970 fields for TOC enrichment  rather than the 
enrichment or additon of  the 550 Contents note field.

We are very satisfied with the product and the service.  

The matching is done on either the ISBN or the LCCN numbers, as 
you may have gathered from the brochure.

We have implemented AVS, and  have indexed the chapter titles in 
both the TITLE and WORD indexes and the authors in the 
AUTHOR index. Non-distinctive titles such as acknowledgements, 
preface, list of contributors, etc., even though are not indexed, are 
displayed.  TOC data is displayed immediately after holdings 
information in our  WEB online catalog.  Since we have 
implemented AVS, searching and retrieving these titles and 
authors have been very fast.  

We have not had the time to do some user studies as we only 
started in June, but are planning to do.   

The turnover time has been very fast.  We send our quarterly 
bibliographic records to a vendor for Authority control.  Blackwell 
picks the processed files and processes them for TOC and we 
reload them only once.  Their statistically produced reports are very 
useful for us also.  They indicate how many titles were enriched for 
each imprints and the total titles enriched.  When you load your 
records into your system, you can also review the tag counts 
which tells you how many 970s were added.  

To date, titles were enriched in the humanities, social sciences 
and the sciences. We are keeping statistics and percentages of 
general LC call numbers that have been enriched. 

For an example of a title enriched with TOC information, access 
CSUL's online catalog (http://manta.library.colostate.edu/sage/) 
and search for the following title:  achieving diversity.

Let me know if you need more information.  I would be glad to 
share our specifications with you also.

Nora
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Our library is considering purchase of Tables of Contents, but we 
have a lot
of questions about how it all works and how much it actually costs 
on an
ongoing basis.  I have the product catalog so have read the 
description of
the product and basically know what it does.  But could some kind 
soul(s)
explain to me how it works for them?  We're interested in knowing:
 - how the ToC info actually matches up with the bib records
 - how indexing works
 - what types of titles are included (we have law, theology, medical, 
and
general libraries in our 	system - would there be something for 
everyone?)
 - what are the ongoing costs
 - what do your users think about it
 - anything else you think I should know but forgot to ask

Thanks mucho :)

Anne
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Anne Myers
Head of Technical Services
Boston University Law Library
765 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA  02215
Ph:  617-353-8877      Fax:  617-353-5995
Email:  amyers@xxxxxxxxxx

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Nora S. Copeland
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Colorado State University Libraries
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VOICE: (970) 491-1822
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