[WEB4LIB] MARC Records into Small DB Systems

[Jerry Kuntz]

Have you looked at Marc Record Translation Program? http://www.franklin.com/devzone/default.asp
The price is right.
or MarcBreakr?
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcutil.html

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From: Bobb Menk <bmenk at ll.mit.edu>
Reply-To: bmenk at ll.mit.edu
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:22:45 -0800 (PST)

>We have a need for pulling the results of various specialized or
>otherwise "too-complicated-for-end-user" searches out of our OPAC into a
>smaller database system in order to create some more user friendly tools
>for this kind of stuff. We use SIRSI on the OPAC side and Filemaker Pro
>v5 on the small systems side. The nub of the problem is finding the best
>way to take MARC and turn it into Filemaker.
>
>So in the interest of work avoidance... oops! I mean, in order to keep
>from re-inventing the wheel>;
>
>..have any of you on the list explored parsing plain text MARC records
>for import into smaller database systems such as Filemaker Pro? Or some
>other method of importing tagged records in into them? Or perhaps you're
>happy with some 3rd party MARC translator like Data Magician, et al.?
>
>Any solutions or products recommendations you're willing to share would
>be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>Bobb Menk
>Electronic Resources Librarian, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
>bmenk at ll.mit.edu
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Jerry Kuntz
Electronic Resources Consultant
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org
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