You face two problems. First, it would be somewhat difficult to do this in MarcEdit. MarcEdit is not designed for this kind of date analysis. But I'm sure someone here can produce a complicated regex that would work for many cases. The second problem is that in the general case, neither 008/07-10 nor 264$c is guaranteed to contain a simple year to answer this question. For instance, DATE1 for a journal, monographic series, or multipart item will be the year of the first published volume, which is not necessarily the first year that your library holds. Some materials may have uncertain dates such as 201u. For reprints, DATE1 is the date of the reprint while DATE2 is the original publication; which date do you want? You need to think how you want to handle each of these cases.
Steve McDonald
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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Kathy Joki
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Subject: [External] [MARCEDIT-L] Help with query for number of books published in date ranges
Hi MarcEdit users --
I usually use MarcEdit to clean up bibliographic record before loading them into our library system, but I've been asked for some statistics, and I'm hoping that someone much more proficient than I am can point me in the right direction. I've been asked to get the number of holdings of materials published in date ranges (2013-2023 and 2003-2012.) I'm assuming this can be done using the pub date from the 008 (positions 07-10), but I don't know how to format the query.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kathy
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