Re: Accessing MARC record directly in Webpac

["Harvey Hahn" <hhahn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Claudia Chester <cchester@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but is it really so hard to click on
> the 'MARC DISPLAY' button once you have the desired hit? Is it
> possible there's a keystroke that will accomplish that?
> 
> Also, I was under the impression that with the latest release (which
> we won't have for quite some time), 'My Millennium' would make it
> possible to configure this kind of thing for each staff member. Does
> anyone know?
> 
> At 12:24 PM 7/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >    I'd like to use a program to directly access MARC records in the
> >    Webpac
> >when I already know the title. I can do this by performing a title
> >search, parsing the resulting HTML, and following the link on the
> >search results page to the MARC record, but I'm wondering if there's
> >a slicker way that doesn't involve two searches. Any comments or
> >suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >kyle

If I understood Kyle's request correctly, what he's trying to 
accomplish is to search by title and, *without any additional 
searches or button clicking*, have a MARC record display on the 
screen.  He said that he could already have a computer program search 
for a title (pretending it's a person at a keyboard), analyze the 
HTML code sent back by INNOPAC and find the search syntax for this 
title's "MARC" button, and then search again using the found search 
syntax as the new URL.  But that's a lot of steps for the computer 
program to perform, and he was wondering if there was a shortcut to 
the title search syntax (which is a URL) in order to pull up a MARC 
record (rather than a standard bib record) as a direct result of a 
single title search, without having to resort to a double search.


Harvey

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