Re: API for book descriptions?
Thank you so much for the offer - I'm working with Harvard's now, and I think I should probably get on to the analysis and write up.
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?
I can grab a random 1000 descriptions/summaries from our catalog records easily enough and send them to you. I assume you're looking for data in the MARC 520 field. Do you need additional info (title, author, etc?).
> be frowned upon. I could also download the free MARC files from LoC, but that's way too much.
> our parent org, I'm sure must). OpenLibrary appears to not have descriptions.