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"D. Brooking" <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:27:20 -0700
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Can the Print Unique option somehow print to a file? And could the file be 
.mrk or .mrc? Forgive my ignorance. (Usually I want a file 
of something, rather than a printout.)




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Diana Brooking        (206) 685-0389
Cataloging & Germanics Librarian
Suzzallo Library       [log in to unmask]
University of Washington
Box 352900
Seattle WA  98195-2900

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Terry Reese wrote:

> 
> What you might try ? the dedup tool allows you to set a specific field to dedup on.  You could, in theory, set the 856$u
> and then have it look for dups.  I?m thinking what you might want to do is use the Print Unique option ? those show records
> that are not duplicated (i.e., unique based on the mapping criteria).  If I understand that the question, I think that
> this might work?
> 
>  
> 
> --tr
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>  
> 
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stacy
> Pober
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 12:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Finding items unique to particular sets
> 
>  
> 
> I have a large file from OCLC Worldshare of records for some books we have in our collection.  I also have our own file
> of records for those same ebooks, from OCLC's Collection Sets program. 
> 
>  
> 
> Some of the records are in both sets and they have the same OCLC number.  Some of the books are covered by records in
> both sets but the only matching field for those may be the 856$u because of the unfortunate issue of multiple records for
> ebooks in the OCLC database.  Sometimes the multiple records for a book will all have the same ISBNs but more often than
> not, the ISBNs listed will not match.  
> 
>  
> 
> For these reasons, I can't just do an import into our system using either the OCLC number or the ISBN as a match point to
> add the unique records.
> 
>  
> 
> I need to find the records for books that we have not already loaded into our catalog.  Ideally, what I would like to do
> is find the records that are unique to the Worldshare set  (based on the URL in 856$u).  It would also be nice if I could
> find the records unique to our catalog, also based on 856$u.  
> 
>  
> 
> The way I think this might be able to work is to first put in a 9xx field unique to each set, then join the sets, dedup
> the joined set to get the unique records and then extract the records with the set A marker.  
> 
>  
> 
> Is there any easier way?  
> 
>  
> 
> --
> 
> Stacy Pober
> Information Alchemist
> Manhattan College Library
> Riverdale, NY 10471
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