The MARC libraries cited make it easy to work with MARC in general, but unfortunately the Perl and Ruby versions don't come with any help for the "interesting" problem of transforming Holdings 853s and 863s into human-readablesummary holdings statements (like you'd record in the 866 or 867). (I haven't worked with PyMARC).
We had the same sort of need you describe years ago and came up with some Perl code that clunkily (and in some cases not quite 100% accurately) does this. It's not publicly available to point to, but I could send the relevant part of that code if you are interested.
There has been mild grumbling (from those who pay attention to our serials display) about the not-great way this works, and we are working on a new discovery interface, so it's on my list to improve the summary holdings generation from 853s/863s.
I did some searching for code to do this, but didn't find anything in my first attempt. If you find something useful that someone else has for this, please do share!
I've been thinking through a good approach, but don't have anything implemented yet.
best,
Kristina
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Kristina M. Spurgin -- Library Data Strategist
E-Resources & Serials Management, Davis Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#3938, Davis Library -- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
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> Andromeda Yelton
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> 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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