[Metadatalibrarians] Non-MARC records

[Homa Faridi]

Hi Joe,

Our current ILS is Sagebrush InfoCentre v.3.1 and before converting into the
current system, we went through a procedure called "MARCHIVE" which includes
MARC Record Enrichment.

Thanks for your reply,

Homai


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Joe Altimus <jaltimus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding the MARC 21 886 and 887 fields, a record that includes them is
> still a MARC record. Those fields provide a means in a MARC 21 record to
> accommodate data outside the MARC 21 standard. Those fields are typically
> used to hold data that cannot satisfactorily be converted to a MARC 21
> equivalent. I have successfully imported and exported both of those fields
> using a Millennium system.
>
> Non-MARC records come in many forms, so it's difficult to advise you on
> what
> to look for. What library system are you using now? Does it accommodate
> non-MARC records? Ask your system vendor that question and for help in
> determining if you have loaded non-MARC records.
>
> Joe Altimus
> Arizona State University Libraries
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Homa Faridi <homafaridi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hello metadatalibrarians,
> >
> > We are about to change our library system to Millennium, but before doing
> > so, we have to know whether we've got any "Non-MARC" records in our OPAC.
> I
> > searched for these records on Google and got nothing useful, I was
> > wondering
> > how a non-MARC record really look like.
> >
> > I figured out that some fields (maybe because of importing them from
> other
> > library catalogs) may not be MARC 21 standard fields like 886 (foreign
> MARC
> > field) and 887 (non-MARC field), but does this mean that any records
> which
> > include such fields, are considered as a non-MARC record and will be
> > rejected or transmitted faultily to the new system?
> > Can you give me more information on this field (non-MARC and foreign MARC
> > vs. MARC)? And let me know if there are anyways to solve this issue
> before
> > starting the conversion.
> >
> > Are there any ways to figure out if we have got any non-MARC records in
> our
> > current system?
> >
> > All the best,
> > H.F.
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