Re: Z39.50 and COPAC or BL

[Mary Jane Kelsey <mary.jane.kelsey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had no luck with COPAC and I believe it's because they aren't 
delivering MARC  I found out at IUG that the III client doesn't handle 
SUTRS.  I think they're limited to MARC at the moment.   I don't think the 
III origin is able to communicate with the COPAC target-- I get unsupported 
search messages.  Later this year, I believe III will be able to output 
SUTRS, but I don't know enough to know if that means being able to receive 
SUTRS records.

 From COPAC documentation:
Record syntaxes
GRS-1 and SUTRS are supported. There are no plans to deliver MARC records 
as part of the COPAC service.
The GRS-1 record isn't what it could be and will soon change in its use of 
tags to conform to guidelines laid down by the ZIG.


3 - unsupported search
For the COPAC target this means it didn't receive a database name in the 
Search Request. Probably means there's something wrong with your origin.




Mary Jane Kelsey
Associate Director for Technical Services
Lillian Goldman Law Library ~ Yale Law School

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P.O.Box 208326
New Haven CT 06520-8326
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