BBC Audiobooks America DGI has contracted with BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) to provide MARC records for their audiobook titles that are released to libraries on a monthly basis. These records are delivered both to BBCAA and to OCLC. Custom MARC records are created for individual library clients and delivered directly to the requesting libraries. DGI also supplies customized files, derived from the MARC records, to BBCAA for digital processing of audiobooks.
| Blackstone Audio, Inc. The Donohue Group is working with Blackstone Audio, Inc. to catalog their monthly, newly-released titles and supply MARC records. These full-level records are delivered to Blackstone for direct distribution to the library market and are also loaded into OCLC. DGI is currently cataloging Blackstone's backlist and also provides "in process" records for not-yet-released Blackstone titles, for use by libraries in their acquisition systems.
| Books24x7.com 
As an electronic content provider, Books24x7.com supplies to its library customers MARC-formatted records that can be loaded into the library's online catalog. DGI creates full-level records for each title, batched to match each Books24x7.com collection. The records are placed on the Books24x7.com ftp site where they are available for download by the library. DGI revises the batches of records as needed to reflect changes in the collections.
| As an international provider of full-text, aggregated content from the world's best publishers of reference titles, Credo Reference serves a diverse clientele located in many countries. DGI provides electronic records for all Credo Reference titles not only in Marc21 format but also in the retired UKMarc format to support the large number of Credo Reference clients with UKMarc databases.
| The Films Media Group (FMG) The Films Media Group (FMG) is a leading source of audio-visual and multimedia materials for various educational settings. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware are four of the most well-known brands that FMG produces and distributes. In order to facilitate cataloging of these materials, FMG has commissioned the Donohue Group, Inc. to supply MARC records for their entire inventory of titles sold to libraries. DGI creates full-level records according to AACR2 and MARC21 standards, with particular attention paid to those fields unique to DVDs, videos, and electronic resources.
| Playaway The Donohue Group, Inc. has contracted with Playaway®, pre-loaded digital audiobooks, to supply MARC records for all Playaway titles sold to the library market. DGI produces records that comply fully with the latest OLAC guidelines for the cataloging of Playaway devices. Records are available for distribution to library customers simultaneously with the monthly release of new Playaway titles. For libraries that choose to purchase MARC records directly from Playaway, DGI provides direct batch fulfillment on an order-by-order basis. In addition, each month, DGI uploads all new Playaway MARC records to OCLC.
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| Small publishers find it difficult to work within the timeframes imposed by the Library of Congress on requests for CIP cataloging. As a service to these publishers, trained librarians may provide publisher's cataloging in publication in lieu of Library of Congress CIP. DGI has a number of catalogers on staff qualified to provide this service.
| Recorded Books, LLC DGI has contracted with Recorded Books, LLC to provide on-call cataloging for the creation of MARC records and has created records for all of their audio products that are distributed to libraries. These records are loaded to OCLC in addition to being available on the Recorded Books web site and are distributed directly to clients.
The Donohue Group, Inc. creates customized MARC records according to the specifications received from Recorded Books' library clients. Cataloging for these records can be done in OCLC, through a remote connection to the library client's online catalog or delivered in batches, sent directly to the client. These records may contain additional information such as: local call number, location code, barcode, price, etc. DGI also provides shelf-ready physical processing for many of the library clients that request customized MARC records.
Another service that DGI provides for customers of Recorded Books is "in process" records. These records can be used by libraries in their acquisitions systems to streamline their ordering process.
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