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Good Records for Less: Acquiring Quality MARC Records Without Breaking the Bank
Lisa Robinson, Head Cataloging & Metadata Services
Michigan State University Libraries
CBHL Conference May 7, 2013
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Three Sources of Inexpensive Catalog Records
Bibliographic Utility
SkyRiver
Z39.50 Search
In a catalog
BookWhere
MarcEdit
Screen Scraping Tools
Amazon-to-MARC Converter
Data Toolbar
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SkyRiver
Bibliographic utility
www.theskyriver.com
works with any local library system capable of importing MARC records
Annual subscription
Less expensive than OCLC WorldCat
Smaller database than OCLC WorldCat
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SkyRiver Search Results
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Record Editing View in SkyRiver
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Z39.50 Search
Z39.50 is a client–server protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote library catalogs
Can search multiple catalogs at one time for FREE
See whatever record is in other library’s catalog
Can produce uneven search results; not all library catalogs set up for same searches (author, title, etc.)
Not all library catalogs permit Z39.50 searching
Doesn’t always handle diacritics well
Z39.50 search may be included in your catalog system
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Z39.50 Search – Select Catalogs
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Z39.50 Search Results
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Z39.50 – Record View
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BookWhere
BookWhere is a copy cataloging tool from WebClarity Software
http://www.webclarity.info/products/bookwhere/
Uses Z39.50 search to locate MARC records in library catalogs
Can search multiple library catalogs at one time
View records in a consistent format, regardless of the format of the source database
WebClarity has webinars about this product
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BookWhere – Demo or Purchase
Can download a free working demo version from Balboa Software
http://www.balboa-software.com/bwdemo.html
Demo lets you do actual searches, but allows a limited number of matches per search.
Full version costs about $470 (with education discount)
Online version (no download needed) also available from WebClarity Software (subscription required)
Also available from other vendors
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BookWhere
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BookWhere Search
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BookWhere Search Results
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MARCEdit
Free program created by a librarian at the Oregon State University
Download from: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
Tutorials available online
Edit MARC records
Create MARC records from Excel data
Z39.50 searching
Software updated regularly
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MarcEdit Search
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MarcEdit Z30.50 Select Database
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MarcEdit Search Results
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MarcEdit Record
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Amazon-to-MARC Converter
Free tools created by a librarian at a public library
www.chopac.org
Creates MARC records by screen-scraping Amazon webpages
Use online: http://chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/azorder.pl
Download as a Firefox extension: http://chopac.org/tools/amazontomarc.xpi
Also IMDB-to-MARC Converter: http://chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/imdb2marc.pl
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Amazon-to-MARC Converter Search Results
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Amazon MARC record
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MARC Record Close-Up
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Save the Amazon Record
Click Export button to save record to your computer
Record will be saved in your Downloads folder as azmarc.lfts
Use the Save to Batch button to save multiple records
Subsequent exports will be saved as azmarc(1), azmarc(2), etc.
Bring saved file into your bibliographic utility or catalog
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Data Toolbar
Free screen scraping tool
Download: http://www.datatoolbar.com
Must use with Internet Explorer
You select what data you want to collect from a website
Creates an Excel spreadsheet with this data
Use MARCEdit to create MARC records from Excel data
Bring MARC file into your catalog
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Data Toolbar – Screen Scraping
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Data Toolbar – Gather Data
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Data in Excel
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Convert Excel to MARC
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MARC Record from Excel
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Bringing a MARC File into Catalog
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Questions?