The Palace Project provides support for ILS catalog using MARC Records. This integration can be enabled for your library by request by the Palace Implementation Team.
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Use the Palace MARC record generator to create MARC records for unique Palace content. You will be able to ingest the records created into your ILS or OPAC discovery layer. You will not be able to borrow content or link to an item record via the web for check. Patrons will have to go to the mobile app to actually borrow the content.
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<aside> đź’ˇ ILS and OPAC Integrations
Traditional ILS Catalog systems and discovery platforms - such as an Online Public Access Catalog applications (OPAC) - provide a Web Catalog interface that require metadata ingest via the MARC Record. Some ILS vendors provide programmatic ingest from APIs or open protocols such as OPDS (the protocol used by the Palace Apps and Collection Manager) but not all. Therefore, the Collection Manager accommodates the use of MARC records as a common metadata exchange format for content aggregated by Palace so it can be included in a libraries OPAC or ILS Catalog application.
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For Discovery only Integration (MARC records only)
Request configuration of a MARC record endpoint in your Palace Collection Manager by contacting [email protected]. Lyrasis staff will create an AWS S3 storage location for storage of MARC Record files that can be accessed online.
Access to this web location is will be your Palace Collection Manager URL with MARC appended to the URL path. ex. https://[State].thepalaceproject.org/[yourlibraryfscid]/marc”
To export MARC Records from the Palace Collection Manager, you will need to request that the Palace Team, reached at [email protected], to set up an External Catalog service using the protocol “MARC Export.” This is how the Palace Collection Manager thinks about your ILS: an external service with which it never interacts directly, but for which it’s supposed to regularly generate MARC files.
<aside> 💡 To have a MARC Record endpoint configured, your Palace Collection Manager MUST have an S3 Storage “bucket” configured by The Palace Project. This storage bucket is used to store the .mrc files generated by The Palace Collection Manager.
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Here’s a configured External Catalog service:
If you are a consortium or state library system with multiple participating libraries, then an External Catalog service can have any number of libraries associated with it. You will need to contact Palace support at [email protected] to add each library to the MARC records generator.
When you add a library to an external catalog service, you will have the opportunity to set some optional configuration fields, including how often MARC records should be regenerated for that particular library, and customize what data should go into the MARC records.