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Open Bookshelf is a digital library collection of popular books free to download, formatted for modern devices, and handpicked by a Curation Corps of librarians from across the US.
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1. Click the Collections item from the left menu 2. Click Create a new collection | |
3. In the Name field, enter: 4. Leave the Protocol drop-down at its default value of 5. In the URL field, enter the website for the Open Bookshelf's crawlable feed: 6. In the Data source name field, enter: 7. The Open Bookshelf is a publicly-accessible collection, so no Username or Password is needed 8. If your form has a Mirror field, leave it set at its default value: 9. If you wish to add the collection to a library's catalog, continue with the next section; otherwise, click the Submit button to save the collection configuration |
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Once you have configured the DPLA Open Bookshelf in a Circulation Manager, you can add it to any library catalog served by the Circulation Manager. The Open Bookshelf metadata records will be ingested only once, but those resulting records can be attached to any library in the Circulation Manager as desired so the works appear in the specific library's catalog. Follow these steps to attach the collection to a library. The instructions assume the library's record has already been created in the Circulation Manager. If not, first create the library in the Circulation Manager.
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