Very cool! I noticed that a feature, MarcDirStreamReader, is capable of
iterating over all marc record files in a given directory. Does anyone
know of any de-duplicating efforts done with marc4j? For example,
libraries that have similar holdings would have their records merged
into one record with a location tag somewhere. I know places do it
(consortia etc.) but I haven't been able to find a good open program
that handles stuff like that.

Mike Beccaria 
Systems Librarian 
Head of Digital Initiatives 
Paul Smith's College 
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Bess Sadler
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:12 AM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] marc4j 2.4 released

Dear Code4Libbers,

I'm very pleased to announce that for the first time in almost two  
years there has been a new release of marc4j. Release 2.4 is a minor  
release in the sense that it shouldn't break any existing code, but  
it's a major release in the sense that it represents an influx of new  
people into the development of this project, and a significant  
improvement in marc4j's ability to handle malformed or mis-encoded  
marc records.

Release notes are here: http://marc4j.tigris.org/files/documents/ 
220/44060/changes.txt

And the project website, including download links, is here: http:// 
marc4j.tigris.org/

We've been using this new marc4j code in solrmarc since solrmarc  
started, so if you're using Blacklight or VuFind, you're probably  
using it already, just in an unreleased form.

Bravo to Bob Haschart, Wayne Graham, and Bas Peters for making these  
improvements to marc4j and getting this release out the door.

Bess

Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Research and Development Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904

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