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Background
This slide show was presented at the Medical Library Association’s 2019
conference in Chicago, IL, as part of a program called “My Favorite Tool.”
Presenters had three minutes to describe software, a service, or anything else
that they found useful. Margaret Hoogland, the organizer of the program, was
adamant that presenters not use slide shows, but this year PDFs from slide
shows were acceptable.
All photographs or other graphics not credited are my own. You are welcome to
adapt my presentation for other purposes; if you use my photographs, please
give me credit if feasible.
Fred King, [email protected]
See The Adventures of Fred and the Avenging Chicken (www.avengingchicken.online) for
more information.
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MarcEditMy Favorite Tool
by
Fred King, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Graphic credit: MarcEdit main page
As the name implies, I’m Fred King. I’m a medical librarian at MedStar Washington Hospital
Center in Washington, DC, and today I’m going to talk about MarcEdit.
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Obligatory Cat Photo
Every presentation done by a librarian is required to have a cat in it.
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Who Uses It?
Anybody who does anything with MARC records.
There’s a lot of cataloging jargon in my presentation. I’m not a real cataloger, so if I can
learn it, so can you.
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What does it run on?
Available for Windows, Linux, Mac
What does it run on? Pretty much anything.
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Cost?
FREE
“Free” is well within most library budgets.
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Tech Support?
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Tech Support?
Terry Reese!
He never sleeps!*
*Not confirmed. Photo from MarcEdit web site.
Provided by the amazing Terry Reese. If you post a question on the MarcEdit listserv, you
usually get an answer within hours. Sometimes minutes. He’s getting a well-deserved
award at this year’s ALA conference.
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What does it do?
MarcEdit is a bit like a Swiss Army Knife.
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I started out knowing how to use a couple of blades and a corkscrew. [Note: there’s no
corkscrew in this picture. Pretend there is one.]
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But if you look at it a little more, you’ll find it has a few more things than you thought it did.
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Actually, a whole lot more.
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Since I have just three minutes, I’m going to talk about just a few things.
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Photo credit: Wikipedia
Don’t ask me about all of its features. I don’t understand a lot of them.
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Screen shot from MarcEdit
Here’s the main screen. You can already see some of the interesting things it can do.
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Marc Breaker
I’ve been using MarcEdit for years to edit catalog records. You download records from
OCLC, convert them to human-readable format, change or add tags as you wish, recompile
into machine-readable format, then upload to your catalog.
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It does more, though. I was given my first book when I was six weeks old, and I’ve been
collecting for a long time. Here’s a picture of part of my cartoon book collection. I started
cataloging it in 1991, and now the data are in a large spreadsheet. What to do?
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Delimited Text Translator
MarcEdit’s Delimited Text Translator lets you turn each column into a MARC field. Here are
a few lines from my book catalog.
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Set up which column to map to which tag, then join the tags that need to be on the same
line. (Note: My original presentation didn’t include joining records. It makes the records
much tidier.)
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Run it through the Delimited Text Translator and you get MARC records. They’re not
perfect, since they’ve been through a lot of different database programs, but they’re
functional.
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• And here they are
Then upload it to your catalog. Clearly the records still need some editing, but we’re on our
way.
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MARC Validator
You can also use MarcEdit to see if your records are in proper MARC format. As I said, I’m
not a real cataloger, so my records aren’t all that valid.
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Z39.50/SRU Client
Two of my book catalog spreadsheet columns are for the LCCN and ISBN. You can use
MarcEdit’s Z39.50 client to download MARC records from libraries all over the world.
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Z39.50/SRU Client
Here I’m getting records from the Library of Congress.
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Z39.50/SRU Client
Of 2950 ISBNs
Library of Congress: found 555
Of the 2395 remaining ISBNs
New York Public Library found 127
Using just ISBNs, MarcEdit found about one out of six records. Not great, but not terrible.
Of the 2395 ISBNs that MarcEdit didn’t find at the Library of Congress, it found an
additional 127 at the New York Public Library.
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Z39.50/SRU Client
Of 2485 LCCNs
Library of Congress: found 675
Of the 1810 remaining LCCNs
New York Public Library found 12
I found more LCCNs at LC, but very few of the remaining ones at the NYPL. There are other
ways to look for records, including title searches.
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Add Dewey or LC Call numbers
MarcEdit will also add DDC or LC call numbers. Not NLM call numbers, alas.
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Add Field
942: Default item type and classification system (mandatory)
When I migrated our catalog to Koha, I didn’t include the mandatory 942 field—default
item type and classification system.
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Add Field
I exported our reference collection, then added the 942 to show that it was a Reference
book and we used the NLM classification system. It’s a lot easier than modifying 683
records one-by-one.
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Regular Expressions
Photo credit: XKCD
MarcEdit can also do amazing things with Regular Expressions.
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Which I do not understand at all.
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But wait! There’s more!
But wait! There’s more!
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https://marcedit.reeset.net/
Photo credit: MarcEdit web site
Which I don’t have time to talk about it so you’ll have to try it for yourself.
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