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Library Cataloging

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This is something new to me, but not to the rest of the world I guess, there is a repository for PERL programs. CPAN has library related tools under both the Biblio and MARC directories. Don't reinvent the wheel (or ILL program); check here as well as Sourceforge.




- Marc Tools
PTFS has released some Open Source MARC Utilities Tools.PTFS has released its MARC Utilities - Metadata Converter, for the conversion of MARC records in batch mode to other metadata formats including Dublin Core and XML. The MARC Utilities is a self-contained...

- Item Availability Information
DAIA, the Document Availability Information API provides a method of showing the availability of an item.DAIA is a data model to express information about the availability of documents and their particular copies for library-related services (loan, local...

- Isbn Checking
A few days ago I asked about batch checking the validity of ISBNs. I got a few comments giving some solutions. Another solution came by e-mail. I have received permission to post it, so that anyone else interested in an answer can benefit.I saw the above...

- Marc Tools
David A. Christensen has created and made available on CPAN a collection of Perl/Tk widgets for editing MARC::Record objects. Thanks David for making these tools available to the community....

- Perl
How have I missed this, there is a Perl4Lib mail list. It is hosted by Rice University, just up the road. My subscription request has already been sent. Aside from the list archives, there are other resources availableMARC.pm is a Perl 5 module, composed...



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