Re: Importing Authorities from * LC *

[Howard Pasternack <Howard_Pasternack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Let me put in a plug for the Innovative LC Authority File option.  It is a 
lot more efficient than this and hopefully will work with Millennium in 
R2003.  -- Howard

At 09:26 AM 10/9/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>At 07:47 AM 10/9/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>Has anyone worked out efficient procedures for importing authority
>>records from the LC Authorities site (http://authorities.loc.gov/)?
>>Back in the pre-Voyager days we (briefly) used Z39.50 to save LC
>>authorities, but the routines for exporting & importing MARC records
>>from the current setup appear to be extremely cumbersome.  If anyone is
>>using the LC Authority file effectively in their ongoing work and is
>>willing to share, we'd be delighted to benefit!
>
>This is a great job for my favorite free MARC records took, MarcEdit 
>http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.html
>
>Here's how you get the records into your catalog:
>
>1) Find the records you want, view them in the real MARC mode (the whole 
>record appears on a single line)
>2) Paste the records into a text file. Save the file when you have all the 
>records you need
>3) Use MarcEdit to convert the records to human readable text and make any 
>modifications you like (MarcEdit can make global changes to all records if 
>this is needed)
>4) Convert back to MARC
>5) MarcEdit can load all the records directly into your catalog through 
>the gateway export, Novell print queue, or LPT port
>
>If you don't need to modify the records, you can simply save them to a 
>file and zap them into the catalog. Note that if you use the latest 
>version of IE, it will put garbage HTML in the record, effectively 
>corrupting it. As such, the process becomes:
>
>1) Find the records and view in MARC mode
>2) Paste into a text file and save
>3) Transfer into III with MarcEdit
>
>For subsequent records, just keep the text file open and overwrite the 
>previous record when performing the process.
>
>kyle
>
>
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>Kyle Banerjee
>Oregon State Library
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>Salem, OR 97301-3950
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>kyle.banerjee@xxxxxxxxxx
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