Vendor of Latin Americana joins OCLC's Vendor Record Contribution Program

OCLC is pleased to announce that Howard Karno Books is an active participant in the Vendor Record Contribution Program.

Howard Karno Books specializes in new, out-of-print, rare, and original materials about Latin America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Brazil, the Hispanic United States and Spain and Portugal.  Headquarters is located in California with offices and employees throughout the regions. 

They provide full library services in all subjects that include: approval plans, standing orders, serial subscriptions, new-title email notification, monographic orders, appraisals, search services, full cataloging.  Shelf-ready processing is expected to be available by the middle of 2009.  Additionally, they are a leading provider of materials in the arts, architecture and cinema from Latin America.

Individualized profiles are tailored to the needs of each client. 

Howard Karno Books, Inc. was founded in 1972 and is a member of the SALALM (Seminar for the Acquisitions of Latin American Materials; ARLIS, NA (Art and Research Libraries of North America); ABAA (Antiquarian Book Dealers Association of America and the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).

For more information on Howard Karno Books, Inc. see: http://www.karnobooks.com/.

When a Karno Books record (OCLC symbol H7K) is added or matched to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code KARN. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu). Some examples of the records added to WorldCat from Karno Books re OCLC numbers: #271981717, # 263302198. Examples of records matched are: # 228416840, # 248400849.

See a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program.

(2009 01 19)