RE: Loading LC Authorities from LC website to Millennium

["Zhou, Don" <dzhou at wmitchell dot edu>]

For those of you who know how to use perl and also have MarcEdit
installed (need the marc COM), I have written a small program (modeled
on the one provided by Terry Reese, creator of MarcEdit)which can export
authority records from LC to your Innovative system. No cut and paste.
Follow Ann's procedure to the point when you see the marc records, save
it as text and start the perl--mission accomplished: the record is
exported into your innovative server. Benefits: You get the authority
from LC directly, no delay; save online connection time; Interface is
easy to teach new staff; you can even do a batch loading. The program is
as follows:


use Win32::OLE;

$obj_MARC = Win32::OLE->new('Marc21.socket')
or die "Cannot start Marc21 Object.\n";

$conn=$obj_MARC->T_open("yourlibrary.innovativeserver.edu", portnumber,
delaytime);

if($conn > 0){

print "what is the file name?\n";
my $theexport=<STDIN>;

chomp($theexport);

open(IN, $theexport) || die ("can not open the file.\n");

my $marcst=<IN>;

$obj_MARC->T_Send($conn, $marcst);

$obj_MARC->T_Close($conn);

print "record exported....\n";

}else{

print "unable to connect! \n";

}
close(IN);

Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Ann Kebabian
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:41 PM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: RE: Loading LC Authorities from LC website to Millennium

At Colgate, we have (with much tinkering by my staff and help from our
Systems Office), managed this.  You need a macro software package (we
use MacroExpress) and MarcEdit.  Our macro is pretty complicated and
doesn't cut & paste in a user-friendly format, so I'm not going to try
to include it here.  Basically you call up an LC authority, select "MARC
format (only save)", and "Print or save search results".  This copies
the MARC record into a straight text file which is displayed in a
separate window on the screen.  Then we start our macro, which selects
all text in this window, pastes it into Notepad, invokes MarcEdit,
transforms the text file into a MARC record, and exports it to our III
system.  For a complicated macro that's invoking multiple programs, it
works amazingly well!

A few caveats:  diacritics bomb.  We go back to OCLC for anything with
diacritics.  On the 'to do' list is investigating just where the problem
is, and seeing if we can fix it, but it's *way* down the list.  Also, we
our macro doesn't work with Mozilla (or Firefox), so we use Internet
Explorer for LC Authorities (many of us have
http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First as
our IE homepage).  I suspect that the problem with Mozilla is that we
have popups blocked, so the secondary window with the text file never
appears.  Finally, this procedure will use your standard m2btab.a, so
you can't choose to download a personal name as a subject, for example
-- the index is determined by the 1xx field.

If you want the macro (written by Christine Dunleavy, Adger Williams,
and Cindy Harper) let me know and I'll try to get a more usable version
to post.  And although the principles would be the same with other macro
scripting software, there would undoubtedly be more tinkering needed.

And yes, we've cut our exporting of authorities from OCLC significantly!
--ann

Ann Kebabian
Head of Cataloging
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
Phone: 315-228-7309
Fax: 315-228-7934
Email: akebabian at mail dot colgate dot edu

-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Pat Longo
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:45 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: Loading LC Authorities from LC website to Millennium

If you have successfully set up procedures for loading LC authority
records 
from the LC Authorities web site onto Millennium, I would be very 
interested in learning how you do this.   We are using the Millennium 
Silver cataloguing module.

We can load Canadian authority records from Library and Archives Canada
via 
Z39.50 and eagerly await the day when we can do the same for LC
authority 
records.   In the meanwhile, we would like to take advantage of the free

authority records offered by LC, if possible.

Thanks,
Pat.

Patricia Longo                  e-mail: plongo at brocku dot ca
Head, Cataloguing Services      phone:  (905) 688-5550 ext 4468
James A. Gibson Library fax:    (905) 984-4865
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario.
L2S 3A1 

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