[Evergreen-catalogers] Importing/Uploading files from OneClick & Overdrive

[Janet Schrader]

I also use MARCedit to combine small files into a single large one. I also use MARCedit to split files if I get very large files such as those from EBSCO or EBrary. I find that Vandelay dies if the file being loaded is too large. The largest one I ever successfully loaded was 1,800 records but it was very slow. So I split large files into multiple files of 1,000.

If you haven't used MARCedit, I highly recommend it. It's a free software program that allows you to join, split, and edit MARC records. There's also a MARCedit listserv if you need help with the software.

The problem with OneClick and Overdrive is the slowness in downloading the files. Particularly Overdrive. I don't understand why OCLC may post 18 files in a single day when there are only three formats, e-audio, e-book, and e-video. Some files have a single record. Very frustrating.

Our network is on REL 2.4. I welcome any suggestions on how to load bib records into EG as I am now working on loading files of over 30,000 records each for two libraries. That's a total of 60+ files. Vandelay loads about 40-50 records per minute. I have two academic libraries that purchased EBSCO for 4-year colleges and want me to load 112,000 records.



Janet

Janet Schrader
C/W MARS Inc.
Supervisor of Bibliographic Services
67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201
Worcester, MA 01606
tel: 508-755-3323 ext. 25
fax: 508-757-7801
jschrader at cwmars.org


From: evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org [mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Millissa Macomber
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:06 PM
To: 'evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org'
Subject: [Evergreen-catalogers] Importing/Uploading files from OneClick & Overdrive

I was wondering how other catalogers upload/import .mrc files from services such as OneClick and Overdrive. We currently upload the files individually into a batch to import into Evergreen. It can be very time consuming since sometimes we have multiple files and I have to add them one at a time to my batch. We have been getting some big files though and I was wondering if there is a better way to do this.

Thanks for any help.

Millissa Macomber
Technical Services Coordinator
Burlington Public Library
820 E. Washington Ave,
Burlington, WA 98233
360-755-0760
www.burlington.lib.wa.us<http://www.burlington.lib.wa.us/>
millissam at ci.burlington.wa.us<mailto:millissam at ci.burlington.wa.us>

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