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Voyager Extracts and Batch Editing for Catalogers . Ex Libris Northeast User Group 2010 Conference. Mark Sandford Special Formats Cataloger William Paterson University sandfordm1@wpunj.edu. Yes . . . These slides will be available online after the conference. Today we’ll cover . . .
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Voyager Extracts and Batch Editing for Catalogers Ex Libris Northeast User Group 2010 Conference Mark Sandford Special Formats Cataloger William Paterson University sandfordm1@wpunj.edu
Yes . . These slides will be available online after the conference
Today we’ll cover . . . • Gary Strawn’s Vgerselect • Terry Reese’s MarcEdit 5 • Voyager’s WebAdmin interface
Extracting records from Voyager • Voyager Cataloging Module • Pmarcexport utility • Vgerselect • Runs on the desktop • Can make decisions • Slower than Pmarcexport, but can run unattended
Vgerselect • Freely available: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public • Requires the ODBC driver provided by Voyager • Same drivers required to us MS Access with the Voyager database
MarcEdit 5 • Sophisticated text manipulation • Add or delete fields, subfields • Search and replace (option for Regular Expressions) • Swap field data • So much more! • Available at http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php • Listserv information at • http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MARCEDIT-L&H=MAIL04.GMU.EDU
Webadmin • Web based utility – no extra software required • Runs reports and certain server jobs • Generates report files for jobs run • Allows for bulk import of files on workstation • Import based on profiles set up in SysAdmin
Questions Mark Sandford William Paterson University sandfordm1@wpunj.edu 973-720-2437