George,
You neglected to mention what ILS you are using. Many book vendors can
supply you with brief MARC records (often free of charge)when a book is
ordered which can be downloaded into most of the larger systems. Speak
with your vendor rep.
--Forrest
Forrest E. Link
Acquisitions Librarian
The College of New Jersey
linkf_at_tcnj.edu
609.771.2412
609.637.5177(fax)
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From: acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:06:00 -0400
To: acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [ACQNET-L] Making MARC records
Greetings all,
We need a way of creating brief, on order MARC records so that our
patrons will know a title is on order and they can place reserves before
we actually have the book in hand. These records will be overlaid with
OCLC records by our cataloging staff once we have the material so they
can be pretty bare bones, i.e. On order call number, ISBN, author,
title, maybe publisher.
Our ILS allows us to create such records in the acquisitions module.
But those records are problematic for a number of reasons. Our order
entry staff have been using MARC Magician. But our service contract has
expired and the company has raised their prices far beyond what we
consider reasonable.
Does anyone know of/have a relatively inexpensive tool for creating
brief MARC records?
George Flexman
Order Specialist
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library
317-275-4716
fax: 317-269-5319
"Good clean thoughts no doubt have their place in the scheme of
things, but there is nothing so satisfactory as a good evil one unless
it is the deed itself. And this is especially true when the evil
thought can be hurled with crackling vigor into the innocuous ranks of a
lot of neatly dressed clean ones."
- Thorne Smith, Rain in the Doorway
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