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GIGO to Gold: Vendor Record Manipulation in LTS

GIGO to Gold: Vendor Record Manipulation in LTS. VENDOR RECORDS:. Usually Preliminary/ Uncataloged Can be sent as E-mail Attachments, or by FTP Requested of most vendors (if possible), especially new ones. Mixed Bag: Not all vendors use the same tools, presenting varied challenges in LTS.

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GIGO to Gold: Vendor Record Manipulation in LTS

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  1. GIGO to Gold: Vendor Record Manipulation in LTS

  2. VENDOR RECORDS: • Usually Preliminary/Uncataloged • Can be sent as E-mail Attachments, or by FTP • Requested of most vendors (if possible), especially new ones. • Mixed Bag: Not all vendors use the same tools, presenting varied challenges in LTS.

  3. What we like: -Properly encoded -Can be Imported “out of the box” to Voyager, even with non-Roman scripts, heavy diacritics, etc.

  4. Main Manipulation tool: MarcEDIT

  5. A Closer Look at a “good” Bib in MarcEdit: • Has an “a” in the Leader field, indicates Unicode encoding. • Diacritics/non-Roman scripts appear correctly.

  6. But most of the time…

  7. Example 1: Andinos (Bolivia) -Open the file in MarcEdit, MARC Tools function set to MarcBreaker.

  8. Records appear in MarcEditor:

  9. On close examination, 2 Things stand out: Pound signs appearing in LDR, unlike in the first (Arabic) example. Empty fields (999s) are appearing at the ends of each bib

  10. Step 1: Delete 999 Fields using Replace function:

  11. Step 2: Find/Replace Pound Signs with spaces.

  12. Compile File into MARC command: File is now saved as a (hopefully) import-able MARC file into Voyager. (.mrc)

  13. Except when something’s still wrong… Bib 22 is missing!

  14. What other issues can we see? 043 Field seems to have an incorrect number of indicators before the Subfield A. Let’s try deleting it, and compiling the file again…

  15. Voila! Record #22 Shows up normally.

  16. Example 2: Eastview (Slavic) No “a” in Leader: an indicator of Non-Unicode/MARC-8 Encoding. Diacritics do NOT appear as they should with MARC 8 encoding

  17. TRANSLATED to MARC-8:

  18. MARC 8 Characters now Correct! Still no ‘a’ in LDR, but diacritics now appear as abbreviated codes, as they should.

  19. Records can now be saved!

  20. FIN

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