MARC Editor

[Ed Summers]

Dave:

<shamless_plug>This probably isn't exactly what you are looking for, but if
you are familiar with Perl and you'd like a Perl friendly utility for
manipulating MARC records take a look at MARC.pm
<http://libstaff.lib.odu.edu/depts/systems/iii/scripts/MARCpm/>. MARCpm is
a Perl5 module, that once installed on your server/PC will allow you to
write Perl scripts that easily read, manipulate and create MARC records. It
was designed to be a kind of a Perl MARCMake/MARCBreaker plus extra goodies
like a MARC->HTML & MARC->XML converter.</shameless_plug>

// Ed

From: David Swarthout <daves at xyz.net>
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: MARC Editor

Folks -

Does anybody on this list use, or know where to find, a freeware or
shareware MARC record editor? I used to do a fair amount of MARC record
processing by exporting MicroLIF format records into a word processor,
making modifications (e.g., to the call numbers), and then importing the
updated records.

I say used to, because the circulation software we use now will only import
or export USMARC format records. Editing them the way I once did, in
MicroLIF format, is no longer possible.

Any help on this is appreciated,
Dave Swarthout
Homer Public Library