[Evergreen-catalogers] Help with importing items and not keeping holdings field (945 or 949)

Thu May 7 15:46:48 EDT 2020

Can't you use MarcEdit to remove the 945/949 en masse prior to loading into
Evergreen?

Shon Griffin
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On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:23 PM Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org> wrote:

> Hi Susan,
>
> Well, I'm going to have about close to 10,000 records so doing it manually
> is not an option for me. I'm trying to get Systems to install the old xul
> client on my PC. Not as easy a job when we are all working remotely.
>
>
>
> Janet
>
>
> Janet Schrader
>
> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>
> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>
> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>
> ------------------------------
>
> jschrader at cwmars.org  ||  http;//cwmars.org <http://www.cwmars.org/>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM Susan Manalli <smanalli at andersonlibrary.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Janet,
>>
>> Thanks. Applying heat sounds like a plan to me! I always check/edit the
>> bib record anyway for errors, etc., so for now it’s not a major deal to
>> have to delete our 949, but one thing less to do would be ideal.
>>
>> Let’s bug the heck out of the geniuses [and you all truly are!] writing
>> code to make this particular need happen.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> *Susan Manalli*
>>
>> *Head of Technical Services*
>>
>> *Anderson Public Library*
>>
>> *300 N. McDuffie St.*
>>
>> *Anderson SC 29621*
>>
>> *smanalli at andersonlibrary.org <smanalli at andersonlibrary.org>*
>>
>> *864-260-4500 ext. 169*
>>
>> *http://www.andersonlibrary.org/ <http://www.andersonlibrary.org/>*
>>
>> *Former contributor to  http://publiclibrariesonline.org/
>> <http://publiclibrariesonline.org/>*
>>
>>
>>
>> *“The first step to getting out a hole is to stop digging. Sometimes it’s
>> easier to not do something than it is to do something.”—Trevor Moawad, It
>> takes what it takes: how to think neutrally and gain control of your life.
>> HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollines, c2020*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Evergreen-catalogers <
>> evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> *On Behalf Of *
>> jschrader at cwmars.org (Janet Schrader)
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 07, 2020 12:28 PM
>> *To:* Evergreen Community Catalogers <
>> evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] Help with importing items and not
>> keeping holdings field (945 or 949)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Susan and Kate,
>>
>>
>>
>> This worked in the xul version of Evergreen 2.9. When we moved to the web
>> client the option to remove the 945/949 field when importing items was no
>> longer available. I am going to open a launchpad bug on this. I'll let the
>> EG catalogers list know so you can all apply some heat this afternoon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>
>> *Janet Schrader*
>>
>> Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>>
>> 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>>
>> P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> jschrader at cwmars.org  ||  http;//cwmars.org <http://www.cwmars.org/>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 11:10 AM Susan Manalli <
>> smanalli at andersonlibrary.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’m following this string although I’m not a coder. I agree with Kate,
>> that we at Anderson County Library also load with a 949 and we have to
>> remove it manually. It would be great if the attributes loaded and then our
>> 949 disappeared.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>> *Susan Manalli*
>>
>> *Head of Technical Services*
>>
>> *Anderson Public Library*
>>
>> *300 N. McDuffie St.*
>>
>> *Anderson SC 29621*
>>
>> *smanalli at andersonlibrary.org <smanalli at andersonlibrary.org>*
>>
>> *864-260-4500 ext. 169*
>>
>> *http://www.andersonlibrary.org/ <http://www.andersonlibrary.org/>*
>>
>> *Former contributor to  http://publiclibrariesonline.org/
>> <http://publiclibrariesonline.org/>*
>>
>>
>>
>> *“The first step to getting out a hole is to stop digging. Sometimes it’s
>> easier to not do something than it is to do something.”—Trevor Moawad, It
>> takes what it takes: how to think neutrally and gain control of your life.
>> HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollines, c2020*
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Evergreen-catalogers <
>> evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> *On Behalf Of *
>> kcoleman at jeffcolib.org (Kate Coleman)
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 07, 2020 10:28 AM
>> *To:* Evergreen Community Catalogers <
>> evergreen-catalogers at list.evergreen-ils.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] Help with importing items and not
>> keeping holdings field (945 or 949)
>>
>>
>>
>> This interests me, as we load with a 949 and then depend on catalogers to
>> remove that field after uploading. It would be nice for it to successfully
>> upload the holdings but not keep the field itself.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kate Coleman
>> Jefferson County Library - Central Services
>> Technical Services Specialist
>> 5678 State Rd. PP
>> High Ridge, MO 63049
>> 636-677-8689
>> Fax: 636--677-1769
>> kcoleman at jeffcolib.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:39 PM Jennifer Pringle <
>> jennifer.pringle at bc.libraries.coop> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Janet,
>>
>> I'm not seeing a checkbox for keep either. (I'm looking at the
>> angularized Holdings Import Profile in 3.3 and 3.5)  I see a reference
>> to it in the 2.12 docs but it disappears in the 3.0 docs so maybe the
>> feature didn't come over to the web client?
>> (http://docs.evergreen-ils.org/3.0/_import_item_attributes_2.html)
>>
>> You might be able to set the 945 as one the fields that is removed
>> automatically in MARC Import Remove Fields (Administration -> Server
>> Administration -> MARC Import Remove Fields).  I don't know if the
>> import process removes the fields before loading holdings or not.
>>
>> MARC Import Remove Fields is one of the admin pages missing the link
>> to its secondary page in the newer angular interfaces
>> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1847781 and
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1847800)  If you're running
>> 3.3 or newer you may be able to get around this by changing the url
>> from
>> yourlibrary/eg2/en-US/staff/admin/server/vandelay/import_bib_trash_group
>> to
>> yourlibrary/eg/staff/admin/server/vandelay/import_bib_trash_group and
>> accessing the older interface.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jennifer
>>
>> Quoting Janet Schrader <jschrader at cwmars.org>:
>>
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > Hoping everyone is doing okay, pretty scary out there.
>> >
>> > I have a question on how to import records with holdings in a 945 field
>> but
>> > not keep the 945 in the record. I looked at documentation on the EG wiki
>> > and what's there is something I have done before but can't figure out
>> how
>> > to do it now. It says there's a box in the holdings import profile to
>> check
>> > if you want to *keep* the holdings tag. The screenshots I found don't go
>> > down far enough to show that.
>> >
>> > I used to load records for an OCLC member library that added holdings
>> with
>> > a 949 field that was removed when the bib record loaded. I'm now loading
>> > items for an academic library that left our system and is now returning.
>> > Around 40% of the records are not matching on existing ones as this was
>> the
>> > only owning library and they were deleted when the library left last
>> year.
>> > I want to get the records back but without the 945 field. When I go to
>> > create a new holdings import profile there is no checkbox for 'keep'.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help.
>> >
>> > Janet
>> >
>> >
>> > Janet Schrader
>> >
>> > Bibliographic Services Supervisor | CW MARS
>> >
>> > 67 Millbrook Street, Suite 201, Worcester, MA 01606
>> >
>> > P: 508-755-3323 x 325 | F: 508-757-7801
>> >
>> > ------------------------------
>> >
>> > jschrader at cwmars.org  ||  http;//cwmars.org <http://www.cwmars.org/>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jennifer Pringle
>> Co-op Support
>> BC Libraries Cooperative
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>> Website: http://bc.libraries.coop
>>
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