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

[Christine Morgan]

Hi Janet,

I am also loading large, identical collections for more than one 
library. I have begun using the Tasks feature in MARCedit to create 
multiple 856 fields in the bib records. The result is that I am able to 
create an 856 field for each library and then load the file only once. 
Tasks allows you to assign multiple operations to a function key. It's 
like a little macro. You may need more than one Task to do what you need 
to do, but Tasks is saving me a huge amount of processing and loading 
time on these big files.

If you need more information on Tasks, let me know.
Christine

On 12/10/2013 3:57 PM, Janet Schrader wrote:
>
> 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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-- 
Christine Morgan
Database Assistant
North of Boston Library Exchange, Inc.
Danvers, Massachusetts
cmorgan at noblenet.org

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