Hello all, Sorry for my late reply to this question. I have encountered bad diacritics in a few different situations. During our migration from Millennium to Evergreen in early 2015, all of the diacritics in our catalog were altered upon import (see what this looks like in the example below). I used to also have issues with records from different vendors when uploading them from my desktop into Evergreen. I saw this the most with eRecords, which I don't import anymore. I would view and edit them in MARC Edit, save to my desktop and upload, and the diacritics would be fine before import but would not make it through the upload without being altered. In these two instances, I don't think that Z39.50 would be involved at all-although maybe it is used in migrations in some way and I am just not aware of it. When I asked our copy cataloger about this about 6 months ago, she said she wasn't having this issue when importing through Z39.50, but everything we bring in is via our OCLC subscription. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Whenever I find words with bad diacritics, I make sure I keyword search the catalog for that form of it (Pi©łatas), so I can find all of them at the same time and put them in a bucket if I don't have time to fix them at the moment. Every word and name seems to have its own unique result when the diacritics are altered. Hope this helps a bit. [cid:dfcc25ba-0fc3-4d7e-9866-f9368d5153b4] All the best, Danielle Danielle M. Davis (she/her) Technical Services Librarian dda...@yorklibraries.org<mailto:dda...@yorklibraries.org> 717-849-6972 [cid:95694d27-74e5-4c64-96b3-ba1a1adeeea1] <https://www.yorklibraries.org/> Give now to help others begin their stories at York County Libraries. Click here<https://donate.yorklibraries.org/> to give. ________________________________ From: Galen Charlton via Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2025 10:00 AM To: Evergreen Community Catalogers <evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org> Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group <evergreen-general@list.evergreen-ils.org>; Galen Charlton <g...@equinoxoli.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL][Evergreen-catalogers] Re: Z39.50 Importer Question Hi, There are likely things that can be done, but it's dependent on knowing which Z39.50 target(s) are problematic? Could you share examples? Regards, Galen On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM Szwagiel, Will via Evergreen-catalogers <evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org>> wrote: Good morning, This question may be best addressed to the cataloging community specifically, but I wanted to make sure I had all bases covered, so I apologize in advance for any duplicate emails to those who may belong to both mailing lists. We received the following question from a user recently about the Z39.50 importer: “The import tool makes an absolute mess out of diacritics and other symbols. I'm assuming that this is caused by other libraries using different character encodings, but I was wondering if anything could be done to resolve this.” I am admittedly not entirely certain what could possibly be done about this since the records are being provided by other libraries, but I wanted to see if anyone else has encountered this, and if so, what might be done to resolve it, if anything. Thank you. William C. Szwagiel NC Cardinal Project Manager State Library of North Carolina william.szwag...@dncr.nc.gov<mailto:william.szwag...@dncr.nc.gov> | 919.814.6721 https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/services-libraries/nc-cardinal 109 East Jones Street | 4640 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4600 The State Library is part of the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources. Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. ________________________________ Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. _______________________________________________ Evergreen-catalogers mailing list -- evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-catalog...@list.evergreen-ils.org> To unsubscribe send an email to evergreen-catalogers-le...@list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:evergreen-catalogers-le...@list.evergreen-ils.org> -- Galen Charlton Implementation and IT Manager Equinox Open Library Initiative g...@equinoxoli.org<mailto:g...@equinoxoli.org> https://www.equinoxOLI.org phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) direct: 770-709-5581 <http://evergreen-ils.org>
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