MARC software

[Steve Thomas]

At 10:08 AM 30-04-98 -0700, John Rutherford CCSULibrary 860-832-2082 wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am looking for public domain software or utilities, preferably for
>unix, that can read MARC files, and ideally provide indexing of selected
>tags and/or subfields. I know of commercial software that can provide this,
>but would like to find free software if possible. As an alternative,
>and utilities that allow manipulation of MARC files and possible translation
>to tagged output would also be useful.
>

I can't help you with the indexing, but I have a Perl script which converts
MARC files into readable tagged output, which you might find useful.
(There's also a script to do the reverse -- take a text file of tagged data
and convert it into MARC.)

The scripts are at:

	http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/~sthomas/scripts/


Good luck!

Steve
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