[Web4lib] RE: Web4lib Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Linda H. West]

I have had good success with MarcEdit.  It is free software that can add 
fields and subfields to a group of records and do many more things.  I 
have handled very large files with it with no problem.

http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/


Jesse Ephraim wrote:

>Is anyone aware of any MARC editors that can do automated insertion of
>new subfields into the 852 tag in a batch of records?
>
>We get MARC records from Brodart, and are importing them into Polaris
>(we just moved from Horizon to Polaris).  Brodart will only insert a
>certain number of 852 tag subfields into a record, which leaves us with
>4 other subfields that need to be in the records but are not there.
>After talking to the folks at Brodart and Polaris, we are entertaining
>the possibility of doing our own post-download, pre-import adjustment to
>the records.  
>
>I could just write a PERL script using the MARC module that would handle
>the job, but don't want to reinvent the wheel if it is not necessary.
>We tend to get a lot of records at one time and only have one cataloger,
>so we want to look at a batch processing option, rather than something
>that requires active human input on a record-by-record basis.
>
>Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>Jesse Ephraim
>
>Adult Services Librarian
>Southlake Public Library
>1400 Main Street, Suite 130
>Southlake, TX  76092
>(817) 748-8247
>jephraim at ci.southlake.tx.us
>
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Linda H. West
Technical Services Director/Asst. Professor
John Vaughan Library
Northeastern State University
Tahlequah OK 74464
west at nsuok.edu