The indispensable bibliographic search and cataloguing tool

BookWhere for Windows makes it easy and fast to search, analyse, edit and export bibliographic records . It can search thousands of libraries and related databases including academic, public, and national libraries worldwide, making it an indispensable tool for Cataloguers and Reference Librarians.

BookWhere is perfect for the ongoing cataloguing of new library material as well as retrospective conversion projects. Bibliographic records can be exported in MARC communications format for subsequent loading to a local library system or alternatively to the companion product MARC Notepad for editing/adding local holdings prior to loading.

 

Key Features :

      Powerful, simultaneous searching

      Supports MARC-8 (ALA), ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), ISO-6937, and UTF-8 (Unicode™) character sets, particularly important when working with Arabic, CJK, Hebrew, Russian and many other non-Latin based language materials

      Immediate results display

      Record analysis/filtering features for large result sets

      WebClarity's AutoSync feature keeps your list of Z39.50 databases quickly up to date

     Multilingual user interface (English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian)

     Supports international database searching

     Supports MARC21, UNIMARC, UKMARC, DanMARC, MAB2, FinMARC, RUSMARC, SUTRS, GRS-1, XML and HTML Record Types

     Integrates seamlessly with MARC Notepad editing tool for easy pre-processing and record clean-up

     Export records in MARC, TEXT, XML, Ibidem, Citation 7/8, Inmagic, ProCite, Reference Manager, and Dublic Core formats

     The Smart Wizard guides you through the search and retrieval process and automatically customises BookWhere based on your user profile.  BookWhere will choose a list of starting databases, optimise settings and guide you through the search process until you find what you are looking for.

     Full Bath Profile Compliance

BookWhere is the first commercially available client software to be fully compliant with the Bath Profile for Bibliographic Searching (Level 1) and Cross-Domain Search and Retrieval (Level 1).  The Bath Profile is an ISO Internationally Registered Profile of the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol, intended as a basis for effective interoperability between library and cross-domain applications. 

 
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MARC Notepad: Add-On Product

The MARC Notepad is an add-on product to BookWhere which allows you to edit MARC records.  It is the perfect complement to BookWhere.  MARC Notepad is a simple and efficient editing tool for working with MARC records downloaded from the BookWhere Bibliographic Client (sold separately).  MARC Notepad allows you to perform quick edits and add local holdings information at the point of capture.

MARC Notepad v2.5 has support for Unicode and allows for record conversion from MARC-8, Latin-1 extended and Unicode. It is able to clean up large batches of records in a couple of keystrokes. Templates can be created.

Features of MARC Notepad:

  edit MARC records derived from BookWhere's SendTo interface
  work with files of MARC records from other sources or extracted from your local system (files must be in MARC communications format)
  supports standard MARC21 and UNIMARC format records with tag and subfield rules and descriptions
  supports display and editing of MARC-8(extended Latin-1, ANSEL), Latin-1 extended and Unicode(tm) character set encoded records
  character encoding conversion of incoming MARC records to match local library system requirements
  Basic and Advanced (MARC format rule-based) tag editors included
  user-selectable fonts throughout MARC Notepad accomodate display of multilingual records, diacritics, and international characters
  user-definable macros provide global editing of records either by manual selection or automatically as records are received from BookWhere
  user-configurable options to suit the local cataloguing environment

Glossary:
Bath Profile

The Bath Profile is an international Z39.50 specification supporting library applications and resource discovery.  It defines searching across multiple servers to improve search and retrieval among library catalogues, union catalogues, and other electronic resources worldwide.
HTML
 HyperText Markup Language -  the publishing language of the World Wide Web.
MARC
 Machine Readable Cataloguing - the MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.
XML Extensible Markup Language - a universal format for structured documents and data on the Web.
Z39.50
 Z39.50 Protocol is an industry standard system which allows dissimilar library databases to share information.  Essentially it makes library databases freely available over the world wide web.

Technical Help:

AMPL Software is committed to customer service.  For convenience, we provide technical support via phone, fax and email.

Contact us at:
AMPL Software Pty Ltd
Phone: (02) 9440 0269     (From overseas: +61 2 9440 0269)
Fax: (02) 9440 0271         (From overseas: +61 2 9440 0271)
Email Direct: EMail Tech Support
or
Click here to complete a technical support request form

 

AMPL Software gratefully acknowledges the assistance of WebClarity Software Inc in the creation of these web pages.  BookWhere is a registered trademark of WebClarity Software Inc.