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Larisa Smyk <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Andrea,

I have done the second of tasks you mentioned (validating the author name against LC name authority) and came up with some ideas (using MacroExpress, Excel and MarcEdit). It is not an ideal way but it did simplified my work a lot. My email with attachment was rejected, so if you are interested -- email me directly and I'll send you my slides.

Larisa Smyk
Library Associate
Cataloguing and information services
University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Young, Andrea C
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 6:42 PM
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Subject: MarcEdit features relating to ISBN validation & author name validation?

I get a lot of MARC records from vendors with 10-digit ISBNs in the 020 field. Is there a way to automatically validate & add the corresponding 13-digit ISBN to all the records in a batch if they aren't already present? 

One other thing: Is there a way to take a batch of MARC records and validate the author name field(s) or match them against LC name authorities and get a list of errors? Sometimes cataloging vendors forget to verify the names (or maybe their authority files haven't been updated), and it would be helpful to automate this before I batchload the records into my ILS.
Thanks!

Andrea Young
District Cataloger
Seattle Public Schools

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