Hi Josh -- I don't think that I have all the pieces of the puzzle, but I might have a few. We have pub date information come over in our vendor brief records in the 260 $c. For us and our import settings, if the incoming record matches to an incumbent record, that pub date is NOT retained in the MARC, but I suspect there could be a way to retain it by editing your import settings (maybe? I've never actually attempted this.) Ingram allows you to format the pub date in several ways (and you can also have it come over in the 246 $c): [image: image.png] I've worked with vendors other than Ingram to include pub dates in our MARC downloads and they've all been able to do it.
As for how you could easily find and use info from the 260 $c or 264 $c in Aspen... I'm not sure. (Maybe there's a way to get the date out of the MARC and into a notes field or call number in an automated fashion?) Of course the dates do occasionally become incorrect if pub dates get pushed. Hope some of this is helpful. Best, Karen *Karen Young* *(she, her, hers)* Manager of Cataloging & Acquisitions Kirkwood Public Library <https://kirkwoodpubliclibrary.org/> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM Josh Stompro via Evergreen-general < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I was recently asked about generating lists of titles in Aspen that > will be released by month for 2026. We use on order records to get those > titles into our system so customers can start placing holds on them. > > Does anyone have a system for pulling in the release dates right now? > Anyone make use of the release dates for marketing? > > We have some records with MARC 263a data that was already added, but only > 38% of our on order records come in with that data. And it looks like the > data that is there isn't following the standard of YYYYMM and is mostly > YYMM. With a few records having YYYYMMDD info. So it needs to be cleaned > up in any case. > https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd263.html > > It looks like a keyword search in aspen will pull up records based on the > 263a data - 2601 or 202601 works to grab those records. > > So I was just looking around at how I could pull in that data for the rest > of them without making extra work for our cataloger. > > It looks like amazon probably has the information in their APIs. I > checked a few titles in Google Books API and didn't get any results, and > tried Open Library also, but they don't seem to have unreleased books in my > spot checks. I don't have an ISBNdb account to see if they include the > street date. > > Thanks > Josh > [image: Company logo] > *Josh Stompro* > *IT Director * > [email protected] | 218-233-3757 ext. 139 > *Lake Agassiz Regional Library* > 118 5th ST S > Moorhead MN 56560 > www.larl.org > *Our mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities.* > _______________________________________________ > Evergreen-general mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] >
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