RE: Napster/Docster + Libraries - OCLC/RLIN = MARCSTER?

[Karen Coyle <karen.coyle@ucop.edu>]

My first concern would be for search quality. Can Napster/Marcster achieve
the detailed level of searching that we need in large bibliographic files
and still serve a large number of users? I presume that as it exists today
Napster makes use of only a small amount of searchable metadata and
probably only one kind of searching (keyword). With hundreds of millions of
MARC records, simple searching gives overwhelming and often innaccurate
results.

My next concern would relate to duplicate retrievals. Does Napster de-dup
at all? Yes, you get some duplicates on OCLC, but in a distributed model,
every 3-letter code on an OCLC record would result in a duplicate retrieval. 

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