[IUG] Millennium batch query feasibility

[Charis Takaro <ctakaro at library dot berkeley dot edu>]

Hi - With regard to the query below about batch input of values to 
populate Create Lists - I submitted an enhancement request for this 
because we frequently have need for this type of function. We can use 
inventory if our data is barcodes but more often it is other types of 
numbers, like bib record #, OCLC #, etc. 

However, not enough people voted for it to make the final cut. Maybe 
next year??

We did play with scripting it via Expect but found the failure rate so 
high (probably due to timing issues) and the speed so slow as to be not 
worth pursuing for most applications.

-Charis
UC Berkeley Integrated Library System Manager
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:29:27 -0700
From: Teague Allen <teague at library dot caltech dot edu>
Subject: [IUG] Millennium batch query feasibility
To: "'innopac at innovativeusers dot org'" <innopac at innovativeusers dot org>
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Good morning,

Does anyone know of a way to input a list of values into Millennium to produce a review file? Our chief bibliographer would like to compare the titles of an online collection (for which he has OCLC numbers) with our equivalent print holdings. It would save a tremendous amount of time to collect the titles all at once, but while Millennium has the facility to extract and export this type of information, it doesn't seem to have the capacity to usefully import anything except records formed with predetermined formats. I pose the question in hopes someone has figured workarounds to this architectural limitation.

Thank you in advance,

Teague Allen
Cataloging & Metadata Librarian
California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Boulevard
mail code 1-32
Pasadena, CA 91125
(626) 395-6431
teague[at]library.caltech.edu



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