[Evergreen-catalogers] Bucket problem

[Elaine Hardy]

Rather than deleting the 500 and then re-adding as a 590, why don't you
just edit the 500 tag to the 590 tag, if the text of the note is correct?
If so, search the note and, starting with the first record in the list,
edit the 500 tag to 590, save and move to the next.

There is functionality to batch edit MARC fields in Evergreen; but I use
the MarcEdit program for something like this. http://marcedit.reeset.net/
You would have to export the records, edit them in the MarcEdit program and
them re-import them so that they overlay the existing records.

I can give you a little more info about MARCedit, if you want to go that
route.

Someone else would need to talk you through the MARC batch edit in
Evergreen -- I have just a basic understanding of it.


Elaine





J. Elaine Hardy
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Georgia Public Library Service/PINES
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On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Parsons, Leland <
leland.parsons at interlochen.org> wrote:

> Hello, All,
>
>  Oh mighty great evergreen brain! I am having a heck of a time navigating
> all manuals to figure out this problem. I found a bit, but I think there
> should be a batter way.
>
> I am new to Evergreen and I am trying to fix a large cataloging mistake
> I've come across at my library. Someone put a donation note in the 500
> field for 300 books. We would like them to be in the 590 field.
>
> I have found a way to do this but very labor intensive. I have created two
> buckets one to delete the 500 field the other to add a 590. So, I search
> the catalog and get all 300 books and have to go to each record (so it
> seems) and add them to a buckets.
>
> I am hoping that I could just dump all 300 titles in to the bucket from
> the search results and not have to go into each individual record and do it.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> In hopes that these lines find you all well!
>
> --
> Leland Parsons
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