by Jeff St. Clair, Tucson Medical Center
(Reprinted from Latitudes,
September/October -- Vol. 8, Number 5 with permission.)
This has been tested using Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape
Navigator 4.04. This procedure creates a MARC record that can be
converted to an Electronic Online Systems (EOS) International
GLAS cataloging or acquisitions/serials record. I have used or
tested it in version 2.0 of GLAS Databridge, Cataloging,
Acquisitions, and Serials modules successfully. It may also work
in the Q series of EOS though I have not tested it there. You may
want to give it a try in this or other ILS software.
For monographs:
- Go to NLM LOCATORplus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locatorplus/locatorplus.html.
Select "Search LOCATORplus".
- Choose the level of search (Keyword Anywhere,
Title/Subject/Author/Call number, Advanced Menu, or Keyword
Combination). Keyword Anywhere (default) works well if you have
the ISBN/ISSN.
- Find the record or records for which you need MARC records.
When possible, I enter the ISBNs (no hyphens or spaces)
separated by Boolean "OR" (in uppercase). When you do it this
way, you can select several records to be converted in one
step, rather than creating individual records to convert one by
one.
- Click on "Search." The results of the search appear. You
may see a "Your search was truncated" message. I receive this
message fairly often when inputting several ISBNs, but all of
the records still appear in the display.
- Check off the items that apply. The results will always
include many false hits, but the correct ones are at the
beginning of the list. (At this point, you might wish to click
on one of the titles and look at the MARC record. Print it out,
so that later you can compare it to the Import fields and MARC
tags used by Databridge's defaults.)
- Go to the bottom of the current page to "Save Options" and
Click on "Selected on Page", "MARC format," and
Print/Save.
- This will bring up a web page that appears blank except for
a string of characters along a single line. This is the page
that you will save.
- Click on File and Save as... in the Menu bar. This will
bring up a Save window. Change the directory path as needed.
Replace the suggested file name with one of your choosing. In
Internet Explore 4.x or 5.x select file type: text file; in
Netscape Navigator just add ".txt" to the file name. Click on
the Save button.
- Load EOS Databridge.
- Go to Import Options. Make sure import format is set to
"Library of Congress MARC, UKMARC." Compare the printout of the
sample MARC record you made (step 5 above) with the MARC tags
listed in the Tag tab of Import Options. Be aware that field
060 (call number) can give you an incorrect number-some sort of
number NLM uses-and leave off the correct one. A workaround for
this is to add field 060 to your notes area. When you edit the
EOS record just cut the call number from Notes and paste in the
Call number field. This also works with other tags that don't
import correctly. In my setup, I can't get ISBNs to appear in
the proper field in the EOS record, so I set Databridge to
import that field to Notes, then cut and paste in the EOS
record.
- Close Import Options, and run Import according to
Databridge instructions. Voila, it is done, and you can go to
the Cataloging module and edit as necessary.
For serials:
This process also works with serials titles. You can save and
import into Cataloging or the Acquisitions module using
Databridge again. From there, you can import into Serials.
I hope this helps you. If you need further help, please call
or email me.
Jeff St. Clair
TMC HealthCare/Tucson Medical Center
Jeff.stclair@tmcaz.com
520-324-5140
Dragonfly, Autumn 1999
-- Vol. 30, Number 4 (posted on PNRNews December 13, 1999)
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