Re: [IUG] 856 links from bib display

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 03:13 PM 09/03/2008, Steve Metcalf wrote:
> I was looking at another library's catalog and found the 856 links
> looked nothing like those in our catalog.  Rather than the 856|u, the
> link from elsewhere.edu's catalog looks like
>
> http://www.elsewhere.edu/search/tGuidelines+and+standards+for+the+use+of
> +volunteers+in+correction/tguidelines+and+standards+for+the+use+of+volun
> teers+in+correction/1%2C1%2C1%2CB/l856&FF=tguidelines+and+standards+for+
> the+use+of+volunteers+in+correction&1%2C0%2C%2C1%2C0
>
> The 856 in the MARC display of their record is just like ours.  It
> contains the url to the resource and nothing more.
>
> Is this difference in the link necessary because the linked page appears
> in a frame?


Yes.  The WebPAC software generates links using information from the 
856 field.  When a site uses frames, the URL of the generated link is 
to a page on the server (which contains a frame for the resource), 
not to the resouce itself.  (If you were to open just the frame in 
which the resource appears you'd see that its URL is what's in the MARC field.)

Bob Duncan


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