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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-- Di Worth
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