Library Cataloging
Really Rudimentary Catalog
Really Rudimentary Catalog is a simple "card catalog" program. It consists of:
bin/acquire.pl - a rather brain-dead acquisitions program that downloads MARC records from the Library of Congressbin/marc2html.pl - another brain-dead program that converts one or more files of MARC records into enhanced HTML files as well as a browsable author index, title index, and subject index pagesbin/make-opac.sh - a Unix shell script that calls marc2html.pl, swish-e (an indexer), and the next program, make-marc-dictionary.plbin/make-marc-dictionary.pl - a cool hack inspired by Bill Mosely that reads a swish-e index and converts it into an ASPELL dictionarylib/Alex/*.pm - two incompletely written Perl modules, the most important being Patron.pm allowing the search interface (index.cgi) to get, set, and display "cookie" data from a user's search session./search.cgi - a CGI script interfacing with the indexed datamarc/* - a set of sample MARC recordshtml/* - a set of HTML files converted from MARC recordsetc/* - sample author, title, and subject indexes as well as the necessary configuration file for swish-e
The site also has an essay on library catalogs.
Thanks to Eric Lease Morgan, the force behind the MyLibrary portal software, for this new tool.
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Marc Tool
yaz-marcdump is a free tool from Index Data to manipulate MARC records. Perhaps it is just the tool you need to convert those MARC21 records encoded in MARC-8 into UTF-8. yaz-marcdump reads MARC records from one or more files. It parses each record and...
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Mylibrary
Some news from MyLibrary.We have created an additional MyLibrary end-user interface that will be distributed with the Perl modules: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/portal/ The interface supports browse by facet and term, as well as search. The...
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Houston Area - Open Source Software In Libraries Workshop
Title: Open Source Software in Libraries Date: February 17, 2006 Early Bird Deadline: 1/06/2006 Location: North Harris Montgomery Community College District Libraries, The Woodlands, TX Description: According to the Open Source Initiative, "the basic...
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British Library
In preparation for the implementation of an integrated library system, the British Library is making available sample BNB MARC exchange data files. These files contain non-current data which has been converted but which is representative of the data that...
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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...
Library Cataloging