I'm glad someone said this. Given the propensity of some record suppliers to
dump huge summaries or content notes into their records, I typically
count characters in 505s and 520s and delete the fields entirely if they
are oversize. Easier than trying to whittle them down.
Paul
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, at 14:20, Doug Rippey wrote:
> Not knowing the size of your repeated 520s, I don't know if this could
> lead to problems, but there is a hard limit of 9999 to the number of
> characters in a single MARC field (some local systems impose a
> 2000-character limit).
>
> Terry will come up with a nifty looped command that probably finds the
> first 520 in a record, looks for another 520 after it, and as long as
> it keeps finding one, will consolidate it into the preceding field.
>
> If the notes are short, you'll be fine, but the record will not
> validate (or load) if you have stacked too many characters into a
> single 520. The same problem is known to occur with long 505s.
>
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> If I have a record with multiple 520s, is there a way to merge those
> into one 520 field, either with a dedicated MARCedit function, or maybe
> with some crafty combination of other functions?
>
> I was thinking a find/replace that only impacted the first instance of
> a given field would make it possible--put some identifying mark at the
> beginning of the first 520$a, and then have a find/replace remove every
> "=520 \\$a" EXCEPT for the ones with that special identifying mark.
> But that seems like something that wouldn't be possible.
>
> Thanks for any help/suggestions anyone can give me!
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