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Bryan Baldus <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:17:02 -0500
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On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 1:31 PM, Michael Cabus wrote:
>I was asked to make sure no duplicates get in the system...there are thousands of records in both, and manually checking titles seems onerous, even if I assign it to a student worker...do you know of any way I can get for duplicate titles within MARC-Edit.
>The trick is, they are online videos, so there are no common identifies like ISBNs or anything...
>I may be asking MARC-Edit to do magic or something...but, thought I'd check..I will look at the records and puzzle it over a bit, too.

(first, combine the files into 1 file with all of the records and break it into a .mrk file).

Looking in the MARC Editor's Tools menu, I see a command, Record deduplication. Selecting that, I would choose Main Title, which appears to allow you to enter a tag number if different from 245 (I'm not sure if it would work, but if you have URLs that would be identical in 856s for duplicated titles, perhaps you could try that rather than 245, to avoid problems with identical titles for completely different works). Dedup on "None", Remove Duplicate Items, and check "Save Dedup items to:", to store the possible duplicates in case you want to look at them later (to verify it worked as desired). Once you Process, it appears the duplicate records are removed from your open .mrk file (after which you could save it/compile it however you wished).

I hope this helps,

Bryan Baldus
Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
1-800-323-4241x402
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