Library Cataloging
LC has a collection tools for working with MARC records. Many are free. I often use the Cataloging Calculator, MarcEdit, and MARCXGen. If you know of any tools not listed, please let LC know. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html
- Marcedit
I've just downloaded version 5 of Terry Reese's MarcEdit. Some very nice new features. It has an RSS reader to keep everybody in the loop about updates and news about the tool. It now has a tool to convert delimited text into MARC, export those...
- This Weblog
I've been thinking of making a change to this weblog. The lists of standards and MARC tools along the right side could be FURLed and then a listing in the index could just point to that tag. Any problems with that? It would clean up the sidebar a...
- Marc Tools
Roy Zimmer has created and made available some Perl tools for working with MARC records. Thanks Roy.getmarc.pl Extracts BLOB data from Voyager. Pick one of the three data types, and specify the range of records to be retrieved. Output is human-formatted,...
- Marc Edit
A new version of MARC Edit by Terry Reese is now available. Here are some of the new features: Enhanced MarcEngine -- for faster MARC manipulation and more exposed functions/methodsGlobal Indicator editing tools and enhancements to all existing editing...
- Maintaining The Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a...
Library Cataloging
MARC Specialized Tools
LC has a collection tools for working with MARC records. Many are free. I often use the Cataloging Calculator, MarcEdit, and MARCXGen. If you know of any tools not listed, please let LC know. http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html
- Marcedit
I've just downloaded version 5 of Terry Reese's MarcEdit. Some very nice new features. It has an RSS reader to keep everybody in the loop about updates and news about the tool. It now has a tool to convert delimited text into MARC, export those...
- This Weblog
I've been thinking of making a change to this weblog. The lists of standards and MARC tools along the right side could be FURLed and then a listing in the index could just point to that tag. Any problems with that? It would clean up the sidebar a...
- Marc Tools
Roy Zimmer has created and made available some Perl tools for working with MARC records. Thanks Roy.getmarc.pl Extracts BLOB data from Voyager. Pick one of the three data types, and specify the range of records to be retrieved. Output is human-formatted,...
- Marc Edit
A new version of MARC Edit by Terry Reese is now available. Here are some of the new features: Enhanced MarcEngine -- for faster MARC manipulation and more exposed functions/methodsGlobal Indicator editing tools and enhancements to all existing editing...
- Maintaining The Catalog
Checking the links is the catalog has become (or should become) a regular task for us. Our small collection, about 22,000 titles, has almost 1000 links located in 856 fields. Thanks to Tom Tyler that task is a bit more automated. He has also created a...