Note that if perl isn't your thing there are MARC libraries in several
languages - python and ruby at least, probably others I don't remember off
the top of my head (since I work in python and ruby, no shade to other
people's languages :). https://github.com/edsu/pymarc ,
https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc .

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julie Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I'm pretty new to the world of library systems and this is my first post.
>
> Anyone have any experience parsing MARC Holding records (853 and 863) into
> a more readable 866 or 867 format?
> We are wanting to export our holdings from our ILS into our Discovery
> Layer and trying to save some of the money that the ILS vendor would charge
> us to create the records.
>
> The parsing doesn't look fun, so I was hoping someone has some code to use
> as a starting point.
> Also, I'm not sure how clean our data in 853 and 863 is so any scripts or
> advice on gotchas when cleaning that up would be appreciated.
> We have about 60,000 holding records.
>
> Thanks,
> Julie.
>
>
> Julie Cole
> Library Systems Administrator
> Langara College Library
> Vancouver, BC
>



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