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Shelley Doljack <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Nov 2012 12:07:44 -0800
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You're right. That is way better! Thanks!

Shelley

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Reese" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 9:40:24 AM
> Subject: Re: Fix incorrect 008  coding in authority records-How?
>
> Actually -- the best way to do this -- Open the file in the
> MarcEditor -- use the Select Individual Records to Make tool --
> (under File menu).  This opens the Extract Selected Records tool.
>  Find your records -- then extract them.  Now make your edits and
> Save the file.  The file is saved back to the original source file
> -- replacing the records that you pulled out.
>
> Since this actually modifies the source file -- you may want to make
> a backup of your file prior to working on it.  But this is the
> easiest way to work with subsets of data within a file when you
> don't want to break the file up.
>
> --tr
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Doljack
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:25 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Fix incorrect 008 coding in authority
> records-How?
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Depending on the options you chose when extracting records, you can
> either use the MARC Join tool or the Merge Records tool. When you
> extracted the records, if you selected to delete them from the
> source file, you were prompted to save a file of the original
> records minus the extracted records and a file of the extracted
> records. Compile these two files into MARC and use the MARC Join
> tool. If you selected not to delete the extracted records from the
> source file, then you should use the Merge Records tool to merge the
> source file with the file of extracted records. I haven't really
> used that tool so you should search the list archives for tips on
> how to use it if it's not self-explanatory. Hope that helps!
>
> Shelley
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christine Sloan" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 4:26:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fix incorrect 008  coding in authority records-How?
> >
> > Thanks, that's got the records to correct. Now I need to add the
> > corrected records to the records from the source file which had 130
> > tags. (Apologies, I've never used the Export selected records
> > feature
> > before)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shelley Doljack
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:55 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Fix incorrect 008 coding in authority
> > records-How?
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I would extract the records missing a 130 $a into a separate file
> > and
> > use a regex to replace the 008/12-13. The tool is in Tools>Select
> > MARC
> > Records>Extract Selected Records. Import the file using the 130 $a
> > as
> > display field, then search for "display field not found" to extract
> > those records into a separate file.
> >
> > Shelley
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Christine Sloan" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 2:36:03 PM
> > > Subject: Fix incorrect 008  coding in authority records-How?
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm loading a file of over 7,000 authority records and have
> > > discovered about 1% are wrongly coded. What I would like to do is
> > > change 008/12-13 from a to n where the record does not contain a
> > > 130
> > > headings tag, as I'm sure very few people or organisations are
> > > numbered monographic series. However, my marcedit-fu is not
> > > strong
> > > enough to work out how to do this.
> > > Can anyone suggest an approach?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > --
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