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Hi David, How about exporting it as/to XML? I've used XSLT to transform some XML data from an Access database to data compliant MaRC (it's not a proper cataloguing record, but good enough for our needs). If it's in a delimited format, then it should be possible to do something - it's a matter of mapping the fields to fields for a MaRC like record. If you can get it into MaRCXML, then use the wonderul MaRCedit to convert to MaRC in UTF8 or whatever. Just a thought. Tom On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Dwiggins David < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Has anyone had any experience mapping book data from PastPerfect 4 into > MARC format for import to a library system? We have about 550 book records > from an old version of PastPerfect that we are no longer using, and want to > import them into our MARC-based library database. > > It appears that the vendor used to have an add-on called ezMARC that would > do this, but they are no longer making it in version 5, and I'm not sure if > it might still be available for version 4. I also don't know how effective > it is -- would like to have a testimonial from someone before we spend money > to buy add ons to a product we're no longer using! > > I have all the data and could obviously map it manually. But I would > obviously prefer to have a ready-made filter as a starting point. > > Ideas? > > -David > > > __________ > > David Dwiggins > Systems Librarian/Archivist, Historic New England > 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114 > (617) 994-5948 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.historicnewengland.org >