[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] how to copy-and-paste marc tag with subfields from other software?

[Hardy, Elaine]

As of now, the subfield delimiter must be entered into the MARC editor and can't be pasted. Which makes formatted 505 a real pain to add. I have pasted in one and then keyed over to the new subfield, added the subfield and then deleted the now extraneous characters. It is time consuming, made worse by the inability of the MARC editor to wrap. 

If you catalog form OCLC, I would suggest adding the 505 to the OCLC record (possible now with the expert community program) and then overlaying the record in your database with the updated OCLC record. OCLC participants would be grateful for the addition of a formatted contents note. 

We have requested and will be requesting again, this type of whole field editing that mirrors the functionality in OCLC's Connexion and Connexion client. We are in the process of writing a requirements document for changes and enhancements to the cataloging module and a more user friendly MARC editor is high on the list. We have just started, so it will be some time before we have the document completed. 




Elaine 


J. Elaine Hardy 
PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager 
Georgia Public Library Service 
1800 Century Place, Ste 150 
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 

404.235-7128 
404.235-7201, fax 
ehardy at georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org 
www.georgialibraries.org/pines 

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From: "Melissa Belvadi" <mbelvadi at upei.ca> 
To: open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org 
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:33:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] how to copy-and-paste marc tag with subfields from other software? 


Hello. I want to have a workflow that involves having student assistants who write up 505 formatted notes fields, using the $t and $r subfields, in email and send them to our copy cataloguer for copy-and-pasting into the appropriate record. The intent is to not have the students assistants have access to the full cataloguing client, for training and record integrity reasons, but not to make the copy cataloguer have to copy and paste every single subfield of a long table of contents piece by piece. 

Is there any way to do this? Obviously, using a literal $ character won't work. Is there any character that could be used in email, either directly or in a binary attachment like a Word document, that would? 

If not, are there any plans for upcoming versions to improve on the "whole field" copy and paste functionality including this problem of handling subfield markers? 

Thanks! 




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Melissa Belvadi 
Emerging Technologies & Metadata Librarian 
University of Prince Edward Island 
mbelvadi at upei.ca 
902-566-0581 
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