Seems to me that MarcEdit might be a good tool for this. It has the
ability to do batch searching and to extract individual fields from
records retrieved
http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php
kyle
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Di Worth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Code4Libs
> The University of Tasmania has about one third of its collection
> classified by Dewey, and the other part by Library of Congress
> classification. We will be able to find an LC call number, either from a
> call number on an added copy, or from the 050 tag in the bib record. We
> have found though that we have about 50,000 bib records with no added
> copies with LC call#, and no 050 information. About 10,000 of these bibs
> do have 010 tags (LC #s), so one assumes that an LC call number would be
> available for them should we be able to interrogate a database like
> Libraries Australia or WorldCat and be able to find the information.
>
> Trouble is, although we may be competent at SQL on our databases,
> automatically "piping" information to an application and parsing results
> is not something we've done. This list seems to have some very savvy
> people on it - can anyone suggest how we could proceed? Could we use
> something like Yaz with an input file of requests, and get an output file
> with 050 information? Has anyone done this already? Is there an
> electronic file available with a Dewey - LC conversion, which we could
> use? 50,000 bibs is a lot for us to manually look up!
>
> Any help you could give would be most appreciated
>
> Di
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