[Evergreen-catalogers] Bucket problem

[Kate Coleman]

I'm seconding Elaine's suggestion of exporting the records and using
MarcEdit to fix it. I am not familiar with batch editing in Evergreen much
either, but MarcEdit's batch editing is fantastic.



Kate Coleman
Jefferson County Library - Central Services
Technical Services Supervisor
5678 State Rd. PP
High Ridge, MO 63049
636-677-8689
Fax: 636--677-1769
kcoleman at jeffcolib.org



On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Elaine Hardy <ehardy at georgialibraries.org>
wrote:

> 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
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> J. Elaine Hardy
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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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>> Interlochen Center for the Arts
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