JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Cataloging with MarcEdit Doreen Herold Lehigh University Symphony Sharon Scott Cumberland County Library System Horizon
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA What is MarcEdit? Terry Reese and the 45,000 Record Clean-up
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA What is MarcEdit?
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Why use MarcEdit? Terry says… MarcEdit supports character set conversions – and lots of them See
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Why use MarcEdit? Terry says… MarcEdit can catch and correct errors 49 records were processed in seconds. Some records appear to be invalid and were processed using MarcEdit's loose breaking algorithem. It's recommended that you use the MarcValidator to identify the invalid records
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Why use MarcEdit? Terry says… All the MarcEditor functions support Regular expressions, making them extremely powerful MarcEdit’s Task Automation ( is the latest “killer feature” because it provides the ability to chain lots of operation together and run them with a single keystrokehttp://youtu.be/gmqTGfTubU4 MarcEdit can be updated automatically (Tools Settings Updates tab)
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Why use MarcEdit? Converting records from UTF-8 (Unicode) to MARC-8 (or vice versa; see ) Can create an original record from scratch o from the MarcEditor File New Editing batches of records o for adding to/deleting from local catalog o editing records already in local catalog can use MarcEdit to first extract them from the StartPage MarcEdit Z39.50/SRU Client
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Downloading/Installing MarcEdit Download from the MarcEdit website Installing MarcEdit natively on a Mac (at YouTube—18+ minutes!)
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Where do the records come from? Vendors MARC records Text/Excel file Other formats MarcEdit’s conversion tool Locally Create your own records in MarcEdit SQL query API Canned report Symphony: Extract Keys for Marc Export/MARC Export Z39.50 Client in MarcEdit
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Process Process: Identify potential bib records Export those bib records to a file Use MarcBreaker to convert the records to text Edit the codes/subfields Use MarcMaker to covert the edited records to MARC Import the edited records See the MarcEdit Basics YouTube video at: Example: Imported bib records with “a” in LDR/06 for video/sound recordings or electronic resources
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 1-Workflow : Search & Replace Sharon Use a SQL query to identify records to be modified Export records to a file
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 1-Workflow : Search & Replace Sharon Use MarcBreaker to convert the file from MARC records to text
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 1-Workflow : Search & Replace Sharon Edit the records
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 1-Workflow : Search & Replace Sharon Use MarcMaker to convert the text file to MARC
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 1-Workflow : Search & Replace Sharon Import the edited records into Horizon
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 2-Workflow : Adding a Subfield Sharon Example: Adding a GMD to imported records Field:245 Subfield: [a,p,n,^c,b] Field Data:=:/. Replace with:$h[electronic resource] [x] Add subfield if not present
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 3-Project : Add Missing URLs Doreen Add Missing URLs to 7,000+ Records for Early American Imprints Extracted records from Symphony using "Extract Keys for Marc Export" report and the MARC Export utility Used MarcEdit's Batch Editing Tools to turn this: 926 _ _ |aLEHIGH|bWWW|cElectronic Book no.24847|dONLINE|f1 into this |uhttp://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/24847|zAvailable to Lehigh users
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 3-Project : Add Missing URLs Doreen HOW? Copy Field Data Edit Subfield Data Swap Fields
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 4-Project : Deleting Records Doreen Lehigh has a 200 title subscription to Safari Books Online
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 4-Project : Deleting Records Doreen Excel file with titles and ISBNs was combined with the results of a Symphony List Bibliography report
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Example 4-Project : Deleting Records
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA How to Learn More About MarcEdit MarcEdit website: Terry's Worklog: MARCEDIT-L discussion list: YouTube:
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Thank You, Terry “Looking at the last two days (March 22 and 23rd) – MarcEdit was utilized by 2,351 unique users, across 59 countries. This surprises me – and is slightly humbling – to think that this many users have found and trust MarcEdit to help them with their daily work. It also helps me to validate the work that has gone into the development of this application.”
JUNE 13-15, 2011 LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA Bibliography Reese, Terry. "About MarcEdit." "The Whiz Kid--Terry Reese."Library Journal, March 15, 2005, (accessed June 6, 2011). Reese, Terry. “Editing Records with the MarcEditor.” train/101025marcedit/MarcEdit_section_three.pdf train/101025marcedit/MarcEdit_section_three.pdf