[XML4Lib] Printed catalogs

[Jared Camins]

Dear XML4LIB,

I originally posted this message to CODE4LIB, so I apologize if anyone
already saw this message. After posting the message, I discovered the
existence of XML4LIB, and thought this might be a more appropriate forum.

I am cataloging a special collection in MARC (to take advantage of LC copy
cataloging, primarily), but at the end of the project I will be producing a
printed catalog for the owner of the collection. My plan is to use an XSLT
stylesheet to produce the catalog from MARCXML. I already threw together a
stylesheet to produce a brief HTML bibliography of the collection, so I am
confident that this plan would work. We would probably use LaTeX rather than
HTML for output for the final catalog, since that would make the final
printing easier, not to mention simplifying index generation.

My question is, has anyone done something like this? Any lessons learned the
hard way, stylesheets I could model ours on, or any other advice? I know
about the LC stylesheets, but that's about the only relevant resource that
I'm aware of so far.

Thanks in advance for all your help.

Regards,
Jared Camins-Esakov

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Jared Camins-Esakov
Freelance bibliographer and archivist
(cell) +1 (917) 880-7649
(e-mail)  jcamins at gmail.com
(web) http://www.jaredcamins.com/
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