Andy, Since I write marcedit, maybe I can help. If you can give me an idea what you are up to, I'll see if its something that can be dealt with.
Tr **************************************************** Terry Reese Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services Oregon State University Libraries Corvallis, OR 97331 tel: 541.737.6384 web: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/ **************************************************** On Aug 19, 2010, at 6:16 PM, "Andy Kelly" <a.m.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > I am in a bit of a fix. I am working to get my library working up a more > effective copy-cataloging workflow and was looking for some software > suggestions. > I'm more or less trapped on Windows XP and have so far been running Mercury > Z39.50 client with some success. My search would end here if exporting one. > record. at. a. time. wasn't so painful. > I've been evaluating MarcEdit and it's associated Z39.50 Client. I've found > it to be slow, buggy and always trapped in windows of fixed sizes. It can > also only search one Z39.50 server at a time, so it replaces one bottleneck > with another. I get the impression I'm sort of in the Dark Ages here in that > we're not just OCLC copy-cataloging subscribers, but I can't seem to > convince my superiors that that service is worth making room for in the > budget, though perhaps this is a more common situation than I'm aware of. > > Ideally: I feed in a txt file or CSV of ISBNs and I get out one big MARC > record to feed my [ancient, fussy] OPAC. > > This might be one of those "...why don't you do it with a Perl script?" > problems that might get me to really dive into my copy of Introducing Perl. > (I've looked at the ZOOM Perl Bindings and MARC module on CPAN, both look > promising but far beyond my current limited abilities and likely even > further beyond my boss, future replacements and/or student worker's ability > to maintain or use.) > > Thanks for your help & suggestions. > ~Andy
