[Evergreen-catalogers] Call for updated MARC templates

[Donald Butterworth]

Galen and All,

It really is too bad that the MARC templates have to be hard coded. It
would be SO much better if us catalogers could just create whatever we want
and save it. For example, we have developed a monster RDA Archive MARC
Record template which we are glad to share. (It is only our archival
records that are not first created in WorldCat) It contains every
imaginable field and subfield that relates to archival collections. But it
is also filled with text, to act as prompts for the people who create the
records; text that must be deleted or overwritten before the record becomes
public.

It certainly wouldn't be appropriate to use as an out-of-the-box template.
But having that text there, and changeable, is a very handy thing.

So what's your pleasure? You want a copy of the monster?

Don

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The MARC templates that ship with Evergreen were last updated in 2007
> and thus far predate RDA. I would like to see if we can ship more, and
> newer templates in Evergreen 3.0, and to that end would like to ask
> for your help.
>
> In particular, I'd like to know what folks doing original cataloging
> in Evergreen would want as a decent, but not necessarily overwhelming,
> set of templates.  Do we want a template for each common video format?
> Do we want AACR2 and RDA versions of the common templates? What else
> should I be asking for?
>
> I would also like to ask folks to share what custom templates they're
> using now.  If you have access to your Evergreen server, they are
> typically found in the /openils/var/templates/marc/ directory;
> templates can also be shared as MARCXML or MARC records.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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-- 
Don Butterworth
Collection Management Librarian /
Faculty Associate
B.L. Fisher Library
Asbury Theological Seminary
don.butterworth at asburyseminary.edu
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